NormanH
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9 hours ago, Noisette said:
Both links behind a paywall, Norman 😐 Recent personal experience suggests that it's in meltdown, though. Six months wait for a scanner? Four months wait to see a specialist? The local one-man-band MTs no longer even try to find a remplaçant when they swan off on holiday for a month. It's a slightly better picture in the pôles de santé where at least the other doctors try to cover for absence. Admission to local Urgences only via SAMU or MT recommendation and always the threat of complete closure during the holidays and fêtes.
It's truly dire and according to my MT the government, far from revising their policy of reducing generalist student numbers, are introducing measures to make it even more difficult to qualify 🙄
You'd think that the French government might have taken a glance across the Channel and seen how NOT to run a health service by simply chucking money at it, but apparently not....
The HUFFINGTON Post link in French isn't behind a paywall. I consult the paper daily free...did you click on accept? Or perhaps it's your browser blocking it
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I am certainly not knocking the French Health service as in the past I have have had wonderful treatment from it without which I wouldn't be here to write these posts.
I have noticed a large deterioration in the availability of MTs specialists and RDV for scanners etc since Covid and I hear horror stories from each of the three nurses in the team that care for me about the way they unable to 'nurse' as they wished in the clinics and hospitals here, and so left to become 'profession libérale'....and even then how some 'cabinets' mistreat their patients.
Like menthe I am still very lucky, but am aware of storm clouds gathering.
The nearest 'Maison de Santé, which has 5 generalists and a couple of nurse was SHUT for 2 days last week, and a fortnight ago the shutters were down with a hand-written notice stuck on 'PAS DE MEDICIN'
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This is an article based on the experience at the CHU in Nantes..
Google translate:
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Thanks I didn't know the origin of the word..
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"Emmet" is another West Country word for tourist w*nk*rs. What about 'chav' which is a word that seems to have come in since my UK days..
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Totally agree Nick
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1 hour ago, anotherbanana said:
Those who are likely to be in the streets are actually opposed to change, imbued with old fashioned rhetoric
1 hour ago, anotherbanana said:Those who are likely to be in the streets are actually opposed to change, imbued with old fashioned rhetoric
Not only rhetoric! They also have a large majority of votes. Add up the numbers of those who voted for the RN and the NFP, as opposed to the numbers who voted for the government that was in place. https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/politique/legislatives-2024-tous-les-resultats-en-temps-reel
There are echoes of 2005 and the vote on Europe, when the result was ignored.
The question " is democracy in in accepting the result of the vote however distasteful to the powers-that-be, or riding rough-shot over the wishes of the electorate?
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It is remarkable all the same that Macron has named a PM from a party that only has a small number of Députies.
Whatever one's personal preferences there is no doubt that those who voted for the two largest groups wished for major change, and Macron has gone for the one who will be most likely to continue the same policies, without being tarred with the brush of being in the last government.
I think there could be major trouble in the streets ahead, a bit like the 'gilets jaunes' and this time with a wide base of sympathetic support
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What is an "oik" ? Is it like a 'grockle' ?
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I know I am 😇
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A few days ago the first FROST was announced up in the Lozère and le Gard https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/meteo/les-premieres-gelees-font-leur-apparition-dans-le-gard-et-en-lozere-1663505978
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In this context I imagine that this performance of a carol that I used to find delightful would be condemned because of the fact the performers are not of the right type?
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Be careful! I know where BOTH of you live.....
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Academics have been campaigning to replace Anglo-Saxon with 'Early Medieval English' due to concern the former suggests a distinct, native Englishness.
Surely 'Early Medieval English' suggets ENGLISHness more than 'Anglo-Saxon' does? But why would anyone even wipe their posterior with the Daily Wail, let alone read it or worse quote it? You should know better oh shrivelled one 😂
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The excuse they will use is that many properties haven't been revalued since the 70s
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If it is done by a cardiologue there is also the consultation fee of at least 60€ on top..
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"Veolia, a rapacious and very profitable company" This is what comes with privatisation. Worse and more expensive services for the public and profits for the shareholders.
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It is often given and works well.
Be aware of the slight possibility of side effects (this is something my pharmacist is always very hot on; I am not just being negative. I have had reactions in the past to some frequently prescribed medicines so always check) https://www.drugs.com/omeprazole.html
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15 hours ago, Le Petomane said:
Well, there you are Norman. One man's meat is another man's poisson. One day I will buy you a coffee on Allées Paul Riquet. And let us hope for excellent service.
At La Victoire perhaps. https://www.facebook.com/barlavictoire/?locale=fr_FR Certainly NOT at Le Cristal https://www.le-cristal-beziers.fr
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We seem to agree about La Poste, but I have never experienced a carrier texting to say the package had been left at a point relais. In fact more and more call and say that they will be there soon just a few stops before they get to you, and several have in place a system by which you can follow the progress of the delivery van on an inter-active map.
Nor do I agree about the old chestnut about customer service in France. It may not be top in large national chain shops, but if you deal with local individuals it is often superb.
My Pharmacy, local food businesses, the cafés and restaurants I visit offer personal and thoughtful service, and the Nurses and Physiotherapist who call several times a week are wonderful.
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Both of you live in small villages. That may be the key to the difference. Here the 'agency places' are tabacs or other shops that are open at least as much as the PO is. There are many all over town https://www.bonial.fr/Magasins/Beziers/Mondial-Relay/v-r679 and so far more convenient than having to wait in the interminable queues of people waiting to withdraw their RSA.
In contrast to menthe's story I had one postman who refused to deliver letters because he said my post box wasn't "conforme"..but I am not allowed to have that type as I less than 100m from an historic monument in a classified area. How is that for being obstructive?
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I haven't had that problem, but La Poste is woefully incompetent, so none of my deliveries are from them. Anything I receive is delivered by one of the Services such as UPS or DHL.
In my quartier there is no point expecting a parcel as the post people have the yellow slip that says you were not at home when the called filled in before they come. The same thing is true for accusé de reception. In both cases a trip one of the Bureaux is needed, and even then it may not be the one indicated on the slip.
It says something when renewed UK passports have to be sent by one of the private services. In 2003 I never received my new one, and I had to sign a form to sweaR that it had not come. A replacement was then sent out by a messenger service and as far as I am aware this continues to be the case.
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This is what Le Monde says about the situation: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/08/27/france-s-unprecedented-and-dangerous-political-situation_6722301_23.html
The public healthcare system in Crisis?
in The Complete France Post Bag
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Whereas you DO rely on mediabiasfactcheck which shows the Huffington post as being American, when the site I refer to is the French one?