Yesterday I was hit with an awful UTI and needed to get a fast antibiotics prescription. I got to this page on NHS111, and ended up hitting "Male", since it seemed to be the question it asked.
Later, the on-call GP couldn't find my NHS number, because I'm registered as a female.
I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …
You probably won’t read in the papers today about the consultant surgeon who padlocked the operating theatres shut when there was no PPE, and safeguarded lives by refusing to operate until PPE was found.
You won’t find out about the consultant who put her hand up and fought…
My best friend dropped me into a&e after I overd*sed but wasn’t allowed to come in, and she sat in her car and sobbed on the phone to my mum, not knowing if I was alive
There’s a *possible* cure for endometriosis being studied and it’s literally just antibiotics, nobody ever tell me there’s not sexism in healthcare ever again
“Looking back at this moment, you’ll think how silly you were for crying when your brother is still alive” he was terminally ill, she was supposed to be a specialist psych for his illness. It was the first therapist I ever saw. I blame her for everything.
"if they died instantly what were those banging sounds" stop asking questions about the ocean. dont fuck with the sea. don't go there. i'll tell you what that noise was, none of our damn business that's what that noise was