Renton

I'm scoobied too tbh. Can't be Sunderland cos they only built boats there.

Liz Truss, champion of free speech, puts a cease and desist on the prime minister for stating the obvious truth, and threatens to sue him over losing her seat. Meanwhile the Tories dined out for 14 years on the factual lie that Gordon Brown wrecked the economy. And the cherry on the cake, just 1 week ago Truss made these vile lies about Jess Phillips. Up is down, left is right, the world has gone insane.

What a shitein cunt Zuckerberg is. And Bezos. All that dosh and still won't stand up to Trump and Musk. This is the only social media I do. Bit of an echo chamber but I genuinely feel I know and respect the regulars on here. I love the independence of the site, the in jokes, the camaraderie. Waste enough time here as it is. Got to say the latest moves to remove fact checking scres me a lot. That, along with deep fakes, means we are living in an truth free World. That's a bit problematic for me because I think truth is THE most important thing there is. I don't believe democratic society can function without truth. What value is a vote based on lies? We had it with Brexit and its been getting worse ever since. Now it's going exponential. What Jenrick and Badenoch have said and haven't said this week would have been unimaginable just years ago, I want to, but I no longer see a way out of this. I'm not going to bury my head in the sand like Gemmill. My eyes are wide open as the ship goes down.

True in theory, but have you seen the state of pharmacies recently? About half have closed, massively increasing demand on those remaining. They get paid a pittance to do this vital support work. And they now have to spend half their time chasing drug suppliers partly due to Brexit. That's another profession I nearly entered and now think thank fuck I didn't.

We have AI already in 111. That's a script. Its useless. We're a long way from robot GPs who can do physical exams even before you consider the compassion but. 99% of jobs will be gone to AI before GPs are.

I think part of it is they are using algorithms which if they need to stick to for litiginous reasons. My mum has insane blood pressure. Lots of times she has been to see them, because it is potentially catastrophically high, she gets sent to Cramlington or the RVI which ends up being a day out of my life. Gets all the scans, then released and back to square one. We just refuse now. Similarly for MH I imagine anyone with suicidal ideation is sent off to secondary care in short order. Talking of which, when I was on the metro this morning a woman nearly threw herself in front of the train. The driver stopped and located her and she was in a right state "I just want to die...". Nice way to start my first office day of the year.

1 in 1000 chance of winning the league!

I know several GPs who would happily kill you for this comment. Fwiw, GPs have a highly skilled job and are an absolutely critical part of the NHS (although to be pedantic, they are outwith the NHS). They can deal with 80% of your health problems. Yes, they are also gatekeepers which is an important role also. No, they don't know everything. But they know where to find information and will be able to correctly interpret a Google result. If they don't, they risk being struck off. Nevertheless, like everything else, there are good and bad GPs, and like everybody else, they have off days. But overall, hats off to them. Can you even imagine seeing 20 to 30 patients a day, with all sorts of conditions, doing physical exams, admin, etc? No fucking way would I do it.

Yep.

Only 40% chance of top 5? Bollocks.

Only 70 million or so colateral, so you know......

Looks like a prolapsed anus to me.

Wait, @LongTimeAdmirer is @Gemmill?!!!!

I knew a woman who went to SJP in the days of Robson, Platinum club, purely for the social aspect (drink). She only knew two players - Shearer and Given. She once asked me why "they" keep singing "Sore knees". "Erm, you mean Geordies?". She was more clued up than this fucker.