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Reply 60
Refuse to treat:

Smokers
Binge Drinkers
Druggies
Illegal Immigrants
Obese people
Stop healthcare tourism.
Reply 62
perhaps aiming to prevent things like Smoking, Binge Drinking, drug addictions and obesity- e.g. more propoganda on how unhealthy it is and the real dangers instead of posters of new moon on every other bus!
Better treatment for mental health issues. Treatment for all, regardless of age etc
Reply 64
Cannonball
Better treatment for mental health issues. Treatment for all, regardless of age etc

i agree but how would that save money?
Mickyy
i agree but how would that save money?

You're applying for medicine and you don't know your research :s-smilie:
sorry, I didn't mean to be judgemental :smile:
apologies

The NHS have been particularly discriminatory with regards to treating the elderlky whom have mental illness

long term untreated mental illness causes physical deterioration - varias studies have shown - including one highlighted by Caroline Shreeve that those with depression have a significant lower white blood cell count than those who are not sufferring from depression. Thus weakness in immune system and needing further (more costly) treatment in a general hospital. Links are even begining** to emerge with cancer.

**further resarch is being done
Reply 66
Cannonball
You're applying for medicine and you don't know your research :s-smilie:
sorry, I didn't mean to be judgemental :smile:
apologies

The NHS have been particularly discriminatory with regards to treating the elderlky whom have mental illness

long term untreated mental illness causes physical deterioration - varias studies have shown - including one highlighted by Caroline Shreeve that those with depression have a significant lower white blood cell count than those who are not sufferring from depression. Thus weakness in immune system and needing further (more costly) treatment in a general hospital. Links are even begining** to emerge with cancer.

**further resarch is being done

aha thanks for that...this is my research lol
Reply 67
Woody.
While I'm more than happy to talk about interview questions I think it's important you take your own active role and research :wink:

i believe me asking is an active role lol
fair point though....
Mickyy
aha thanks for that...this is my research lol


That is not acceptable.
You clearly aren't all that interested in medicine.
Reply 69
Cannonball
That is not acceptable.
You clearly aren't all that interested in medicine.

if u say so...i dont need to explain myself to u
Reply 70
Cannonball
That is not acceptable.
You clearly aren't all that interested in medicine.

bear in mind this is also to help others...i got asked this at an interview so i obviously researched it after incase something similar comes up in other interviews i (hopefully) get, im just interested to see what others think...how can u decide im not interested in medicine from a post...
word of advice...RELAX
Reply 71
Mickyy
i believe me asking is an active role lol
fair point though....

No, asking me to tell you specific problems is just you not doing your own necessary research. I spoke to you about the issue you brought up and if you have the necessary interest in medicine you will look it up yourself rather than be spoon fed the answer.
Reply 72
Woody.
No, asking me to tell you specific problems is just you not doing your own necessary research. I spoke to you about the issue you brought up and if you have the necessary interest in medicine you will look it up yourself rather than be spoon fed the answer.

FINE FINE!! point taken.
Reply 73
Gap
Refuse to treat:

Smokers
Binge Drinkers
Druggies
Illegal Immigrants
Obese people


What, so if a smoker breaks his leg he won't be treated because he smokes?
I don't see how you can justify refusing treatment by saying its self inflicted or that these people put strain on resources, they're still people.
Reply 74
or an obesely fat matron who worked 50 years in the NHS before you met her.
try refusing her treatment... and duck for cover... it'd be like Big Momma's 'ouse all over again.... :s-smilie:
Cannonball
You're applying for medicine and you don't know your research :s-smilie:
sorry, I didn't mean to be judgemental :smile:
apologies

The NHS have been particularly discriminatory with regards to treating the elderlky whom have mental illness

long term untreated mental illness causes physical deterioration - varias studies have shown - including one highlighted by Caroline Shreeve that those with depression have a significant lower white blood cell count than those who are not sufferring from depression. Thus weakness in immune system and needing further (more costly) treatment in a general hospital. Links are even begining** to emerge with cancer.

**further resarch is being done


Any evidence to support that (I would be interested to see if this is true :smile:)
Stop treating illnesses directly caused by people, don't treat smoking related incidents, don't treat drink or drug related incidents. Simple.
theronkinator
Stop treating illnesses directly caused by people, don't treat smoking related incidents, don't treat drink or drug related incidents. Simple.


:rollseyes:

See above arguments.


Or, if you cba...here is an example.

Stress causes catecholamine release that increases blood pressure, that increases cardiovascular risk. So, if you are the sort of person that winds yourself up easily, you can "cause" yourself to get heart disease. Treatable under your rules?
mathperson
before people start saying stuff like generally making people's care worse/more selective, could the first thing be to cut the wages of the people who don't "earn their wages" and get rid of managers that are not needed, I read somewhere last week that there are more managers in the NHS than beds (and no, it wasn't sarcasm).

agreed
_Andrew_
Sure. I suppose they can do that by their magical ability to decipherer the exact cause which caused the mutations that caused the cancer to be triggered.:p:


they can make a better decision than i can and it wont be the same in all cases.
imo if we have to have a socialist system, an occasional possible miscalculation is better than just treatment to everyone, despite how blatantly they did it themselves

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