comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 59 minutes ago
I agree about Martin. I can't think what the hold up can be on the deal.
His family is settled here. Is it that Cocu wants to free space for others to come in?
But even so Martin is excellent at his role at will only get better over the next two years. His experience and nouse must be worth a decent contract.
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We probably couldn't afford to give the car park attendant a new contract ATM?
Good news for Scouse and his ilk. UK prosecutors are being advised not to clog up the courts with cases of benefit fraud, petty crime, criminal damage and suspected gangster-type activity. Every cloud etc.
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 3 hours, 13 minutes ago
Good news for Scouse and his ilk. UK prosecutors are being advised not to clog up the courts with cases of benefit fraud, petty crime, criminal damage and suspected gangster-type activity. Every cloud etc.
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Wanna buy some gear?
Have you been tested yet Vidal?
You can go out and commit a crime but don't drive to the Peak District.
Nope, I am at work so I would not be high on the list to be tested unless I was self-isolating at home.We have had quite a few patients whose first swab has been negative but who have subsequently tested positive. This doesn't help when trying to decide where to place patients. At present our tests have to go to Birmingham so it may be that the distance and time involved affects the reliability of the results. At the moment you have to assume that pretty much every patient has got it. I am still hoping that it has been through me without me noticing.
Can't be said enough times, Vidal,
Thanks for everything that you and your amazing colleagues are doing
comment by 🏁 AngVanDerRaam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Can't be said enough times, Vidal,
Thanks for everything that you and your amazing colleagues are doing
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Hear, hear
There is a great sense of togetherness at the moment. Ordinarily, people being people and doctors in particular having their egos, there are the day-to-day bickerings that probably exist in most workplaces. Suddenly lots of things that seemed to be important aren’t any more. Everybody is being gentle and nice. Maybe it won’t last and we will all revert to type when it starts to die down but I think there will be a lasting re-evaluation for some of us about which things really merit getting agitated about.
I am in admiration that people are prepared to risk their health to help others. This includes not just health service employees but the people of checkouts in food shops, bus drivers and in fact anyone who has to meet the public. You only catch this disease from other people so those in that position should be given all the protection they need to carry out their job safely. The government has let these people down so far, even the Mail is saying that.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about protective equipment. This is not an illness where the main form of spread is breathing in someone else’s air. Surface contamination such as worktops and door handles is a far bigger risk. People get obsessed with masks but they may increase the risk because people are more likely to touch them with their fingers and the false sense of security they provide makes people pay less attention to the basics of good hygiene i.e. the washing of hands. A near hysteria has built up over protective clothing because the image of breathing in a poison is a much more seductive one than opening a door and then scratching our nose. The great majority of health care professionals don’t understand viral transmission so they are getting panicked by the constant emphasis on PPE in the media which isn’t balanced by advice from experts who know what they are talking about. In our staff room there is much talk of masks but people come in for their break, open the fridge, screw the top off the milk to put in their tea, all without washing their hands.
Reading tonight that the WHO now believe face masks are beneficial in preventing the spread of the virus.
It’s not straightforward. Conventional masks start becoming less effective after a relatively short time. They are unlikely to afford the wearer significant protection but they might make it less likely that someone with the virus coughs droplets onto surfaces.
It's just that we always seem just behind the curve and playing catch-up. Some/most of the 5.00pm press conferences have been so blatantly mendacious, I'm unsure as to where we actually stand as regards testing, masks, facilities available, ventilators from Europe (massive whoppers there) but hey, we have to keep it apolitical.
Which frustrates me deeply seeing people close to me (and you Vidal) going into this with true professionalism and still being lied to
Thank you NHS
Nice to know our Health Secretary has a grasp on numbers, not!
"......... so far four doctors have died and SOME NURSES"
At the end of this there should definitely be a medal struck and presented to NHS staff. The Coronavirus Campaign Medal, which staff can wear with pride on Remembrance Day.
This is a war, there is a clear enemy and the people asked to fight it on our behalf are risking their lives.
Their bravery must be recognised.
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 6 minutes ago
At the end of this there should definitely be a medal struck and presented to NHS staff. The Coronavirus Campaign Medal, which staff can wear with pride on Remembrance Day.
This is a war, there is a clear enemy and the people asked to fight it on our behalf are risking their lives.
Their bravery must be recognised.
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A decent pay rise would be a good starting point, Rameses
comment by 🏁 AngVanDerRaam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 6 minutes ago
At the end of this there should definitely be a medal struck and presented to NHS staff. The Coronavirus Campaign Medal, which staff can wear with pride on Remembrance Day.
This is a war, there is a clear enemy and the people asked to fight it on our behalf are risking their lives.
Their bravery must be recognised.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A decent pay rise would be a good starting point, Rameses
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As would not charging them £9,250 a year to train
I'm lucky, I tend to get plenty of thanks just because a lot of folk tend to think well of doctors. Obviously VC and Spart are admirably trying to redress the balance in this regard. Nurses and paramedics are also generally well thought-of. Other staff don't ordinarily get the recognition - domestics, porters and so on - and not all of them understand what's going on all that well (which of us does?) so it's especially frightening for them and they are very much on the front line. Ours are doing a fantastic job and just get on with the job. Our coffee shop is run by a terrific Italian guy called Gino who must get breathed on by hundreds of people a day but he is the most cheerful and friendly chap you could ever meet. I felt the need to go and personally thank him yesterday and he looked at me like I was an idiot because he feels he's just doing his job. These people need celebrating.
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted less than a minute ago
I'm lucky, I tend to get plenty of thanks just because a lot of folk tend to think well of doctors. Obviously VC and Spart are admirably trying to redress the balance in this regard. Nurses and paramedics are also generally well thought-of. Other staff don't ordinarily get the recognition - domestics, porters and so on - and not all of them understand what's going on all that well (which of us does?) so it's especially frightening for them and they are very much on the front line. Ours are doing a fantastic job and just get on with the job. Our coffee shop is run by a terrific Italian guy called Gino who must get breathed on by hundreds of people a day but he is the most cheerful and friendly chap you could ever meet. I felt the need to go and personally thank him yesterday and he looked at me like I was an idiot because he feels he's just doing his job. These people need celebrating.
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You were just after a freebie.....
Of course. Although Costa have sent us hundreds of cans of coffee. I didn't know there WAS such a thing as cans of coffee. They advise you to drink them chilled. They can get lost. I don't want cans of cold coffee. Where's the cake?
I’m in the Derby Royal, the staff have great on 404, impossible to fault them
comment by supa-rams (U1358)
posted 35 minutes ago
I’m in the Derby Royal, the staff have great on 404, impossible to fault them
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Get well soon Supa.
Thanks Scouse, being weaned of the oxygen
, hopefully home tomorrow
there is one medic who deserves a 5 Star medal for starting this topic on Derby County 606 in this days of no football>. Vote 5 stars for Vidal.
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posted on 1/4/20
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 59 minutes ago
I agree about Martin. I can't think what the hold up can be on the deal.
His family is settled here. Is it that Cocu wants to free space for others to come in?
But even so Martin is excellent at his role at will only get better over the next two years. His experience and nouse must be worth a decent contract.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We probably couldn't afford to give the car park attendant a new contract ATM?
posted on 2/4/20
Good news for Scouse and his ilk. UK prosecutors are being advised not to clog up the courts with cases of benefit fraud, petty crime, criminal damage and suspected gangster-type activity. Every cloud etc.
posted on 2/4/20
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 3 hours, 13 minutes ago
Good news for Scouse and his ilk. UK prosecutors are being advised not to clog up the courts with cases of benefit fraud, petty crime, criminal damage and suspected gangster-type activity. Every cloud etc.
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Wanna buy some gear?
posted on 2/4/20
Have you been tested yet Vidal?
You can go out and commit a crime but don't drive to the Peak District.
posted on 2/4/20
Nope, I am at work so I would not be high on the list to be tested unless I was self-isolating at home.We have had quite a few patients whose first swab has been negative but who have subsequently tested positive. This doesn't help when trying to decide where to place patients. At present our tests have to go to Birmingham so it may be that the distance and time involved affects the reliability of the results. At the moment you have to assume that pretty much every patient has got it. I am still hoping that it has been through me without me noticing.
posted on 2/4/20
Can't be said enough times, Vidal,
Thanks for everything that you and your amazing colleagues are doing
posted on 2/4/20
comment by 🏁 AngVanDerRaam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Can't be said enough times, Vidal,
Thanks for everything that you and your amazing colleagues are doing
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hear, hear
posted on 2/4/20
There is a great sense of togetherness at the moment. Ordinarily, people being people and doctors in particular having their egos, there are the day-to-day bickerings that probably exist in most workplaces. Suddenly lots of things that seemed to be important aren’t any more. Everybody is being gentle and nice. Maybe it won’t last and we will all revert to type when it starts to die down but I think there will be a lasting re-evaluation for some of us about which things really merit getting agitated about.
posted on 2/4/20
I am in admiration that people are prepared to risk their health to help others. This includes not just health service employees but the people of checkouts in food shops, bus drivers and in fact anyone who has to meet the public. You only catch this disease from other people so those in that position should be given all the protection they need to carry out their job safely. The government has let these people down so far, even the Mail is saying that.
posted on 2/4/20
There is a lot of misunderstanding about protective equipment. This is not an illness where the main form of spread is breathing in someone else’s air. Surface contamination such as worktops and door handles is a far bigger risk. People get obsessed with masks but they may increase the risk because people are more likely to touch them with their fingers and the false sense of security they provide makes people pay less attention to the basics of good hygiene i.e. the washing of hands. A near hysteria has built up over protective clothing because the image of breathing in a poison is a much more seductive one than opening a door and then scratching our nose. The great majority of health care professionals don’t understand viral transmission so they are getting panicked by the constant emphasis on PPE in the media which isn’t balanced by advice from experts who know what they are talking about. In our staff room there is much talk of masks but people come in for their break, open the fridge, screw the top off the milk to put in their tea, all without washing their hands.
posted on 2/4/20
Reading tonight that the WHO now believe face masks are beneficial in preventing the spread of the virus.
posted on 3/4/20
It’s not straightforward. Conventional masks start becoming less effective after a relatively short time. They are unlikely to afford the wearer significant protection but they might make it less likely that someone with the virus coughs droplets onto surfaces.
posted on 3/4/20
It's just that we always seem just behind the curve and playing catch-up. Some/most of the 5.00pm press conferences have been so blatantly mendacious, I'm unsure as to where we actually stand as regards testing, masks, facilities available, ventilators from Europe (massive whoppers there) but hey, we have to keep it apolitical.
Which frustrates me deeply seeing people close to me (and you Vidal) going into this with true professionalism and still being lied to
Thank you NHS
posted on 3/4/20
Nice to know our Health Secretary has a grasp on numbers, not!
"......... so far four doctors have died and SOME NURSES"
posted on 3/4/20
At the end of this there should definitely be a medal struck and presented to NHS staff. The Coronavirus Campaign Medal, which staff can wear with pride on Remembrance Day.
This is a war, there is a clear enemy and the people asked to fight it on our behalf are risking their lives.
Their bravery must be recognised.
posted on 3/4/20
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 6 minutes ago
At the end of this there should definitely be a medal struck and presented to NHS staff. The Coronavirus Campaign Medal, which staff can wear with pride on Remembrance Day.
This is a war, there is a clear enemy and the people asked to fight it on our behalf are risking their lives.
Their bravery must be recognised.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A decent pay rise would be a good starting point, Rameses
posted on 3/4/20
comment by 🏁 AngVanDerRaam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 6 minutes ago
At the end of this there should definitely be a medal struck and presented to NHS staff. The Coronavirus Campaign Medal, which staff can wear with pride on Remembrance Day.
This is a war, there is a clear enemy and the people asked to fight it on our behalf are risking their lives.
Their bravery must be recognised.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A decent pay rise would be a good starting point, Rameses
----------------------------------------------------------------------
As would not charging them £9,250 a year to train
posted on 3/4/20
I'm lucky, I tend to get plenty of thanks just because a lot of folk tend to think well of doctors. Obviously VC and Spart are admirably trying to redress the balance in this regard. Nurses and paramedics are also generally well thought-of. Other staff don't ordinarily get the recognition - domestics, porters and so on - and not all of them understand what's going on all that well (which of us does?) so it's especially frightening for them and they are very much on the front line. Ours are doing a fantastic job and just get on with the job. Our coffee shop is run by a terrific Italian guy called Gino who must get breathed on by hundreds of people a day but he is the most cheerful and friendly chap you could ever meet. I felt the need to go and personally thank him yesterday and he looked at me like I was an idiot because he feels he's just doing his job. These people need celebrating.
posted on 3/4/20
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted less than a minute ago
I'm lucky, I tend to get plenty of thanks just because a lot of folk tend to think well of doctors. Obviously VC and Spart are admirably trying to redress the balance in this regard. Nurses and paramedics are also generally well thought-of. Other staff don't ordinarily get the recognition - domestics, porters and so on - and not all of them understand what's going on all that well (which of us does?) so it's especially frightening for them and they are very much on the front line. Ours are doing a fantastic job and just get on with the job. Our coffee shop is run by a terrific Italian guy called Gino who must get breathed on by hundreds of people a day but he is the most cheerful and friendly chap you could ever meet. I felt the need to go and personally thank him yesterday and he looked at me like I was an idiot because he feels he's just doing his job. These people need celebrating.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You were just after a freebie.....
posted on 3/4/20
Of course. Although Costa have sent us hundreds of cans of coffee. I didn't know there WAS such a thing as cans of coffee. They advise you to drink them chilled. They can get lost. I don't want cans of cold coffee. Where's the cake?
posted on 3/4/20
I’m in the Derby Royal, the staff have great on 404, impossible to fault them
posted on 3/4/20
comment by supa-rams (U1358)
posted 35 minutes ago
I’m in the Derby Royal, the staff have great on 404, impossible to fault them
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Get well soon Supa.
posted on 3/4/20
Thanks Scouse, being weaned of the oxygen
, hopefully home tomorrow
posted on 3/4/20
All the best supa
posted on 3/4/20
there is one medic who deserves a 5 Star medal for starting this topic on Derby County 606 in this days of no football>. Vote 5 stars for Vidal.
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