Finger well on the pulse, I think you mean Rylan
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Similar reports over here Ram. Last week a cardiologist on a late night talk show said that there is a drop in heart problems being reported to GPs and hospitals, something like an average of 60% down and as high as 75% in some places. Other medical specialities are also seeing large drops in patient numbers. The specialists are worried that people with very genuine and possibly life threatening conditions aren't reporting it as they fear catching Corona at the GPs or in hospital. It was stressed that Corona patients aren't in the same areas of a hospital as heart and other patients. They recommended everybody to contact a health professional if they think they have a problem in exactly the way they would have pre Corona.
My daughter got bumped up the MRI list by over four months due to cancellations, called in last week at a days notice, the receptionist said they are struggling to fill a number of cancellation slots. As a regular at the hospital she knows the quickest back way to the MRI but she said the main entrance was quiet too.
Sadly a very different situation across the ‘pond’ in NY and NJ. As a few know from PM’s, I have someone very close over there who’s chemo treatment has been seriously disrupted by the current Corona crisis.
There has, perhaps understandably, been little emphasis on the collateral damage aspects of covid - although obviously the "protect our NHS" slogan is clearly focussed on being able to continue to deal with existing patient issues.
it will be interesting to see, when the numbers are finally added up, what the consequential loss figures have been - if indeed they can be assessed.
Something that's been bothering me since I got into a rare face to face public argument with someone a while back, is the term 'mincer' now on the PC blacklist? To me its a valid term related to 'camp' but I was shouted down for being homophobic. IMO Rylan minces with the best of them, and I couldn't give a stuff (?) about his ***uality. I guess bell-end is OK although I use a hyphen