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Originally Posted by TheSloth
But the NHS is wonderful! How dare you criticise the worlds fairest, cheapest and most efficient health care system.
 . It'll never change - trying to reform the NHS is enough to bring down any government.Anyway, go to your GP and play up the symptoms a bit. Just say you have significant hearing loss in one ear, along with a sudden onset of tinnitus in said ear, and don't say you have been doing anything unusually noise related. You will get the referral you need. Alternatively, you can go and see the audiologist privately at your own cost - that case for simple audiology will be less than 100GBP and is worth it to make sure nothing is wrong. |
Still... Is a bit sad that I have to play up symptoms in order to get a referal (and I'll have at least 1-2 weeks for the GP and another 1-2 for the Audiologist, and this if the GP let me go).
I could pay that 100GBP but considering the wait... for a few pounds more I could go to Spain and see two very good audiologist (another one for a second opinion) on the very same day (I'm still paying health insurance over there too).
BTW... if you wonder why Spain... it's not because they are "naturals" for medicine or better or something... the reason is that over there for the last 30 years every single parent is obsesed with sending all the kids to University (if not, you are a failure as a parent, so they think), so everybody has high degrees over there these days (you make far more money if you are plumber instead of a starting lawyer, doctor or engineer over there because of that these days). The Medical studies are very long and exigent and there are excess of good doctors over there. So empresaries set up new and SOTA private hospitals over there because the main cost which is specialists (and not equipment, although it is not cheap) are cheap over there due to the high offer and not great demand of good doctors.
This sort of happens in most countries too but in Spain is so funny and extreme (due to the percentages of students and lenght of studies) that it is worth of a sociological study. Almost all young people over there study at the University until almost their 30s (more if you specialize later, which is not unusual), living at their parents, and being singles of course.
There was a joke over there saying that Jesus was Spanish, as at his 30s he was single, he hadn't a job and he was living with their parents.
Anyway... how can I go so far off-topic?
Cheers
