@jmgilchrist Personally, I don’t like the term ‘free eye test’ as somebody is paying for it! I always say to patients that the NHS is funding their eye test.
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Mich Sand Dune
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Mich Sand Dune
@mrssanddune
Physicist turned Optometrist based in Devon. Can otherwise be found wild swimming, dancing, rowing or running. Views my own.
Devon Katılım Ekim 2014
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NHS sight-tests have been free to all in Scotland since 2006 (pre-SNP). Elsewhere in UK, they are free to under 16s (19 if in FT education), over 60s, and others meeting various eligibility criteria, For those not eligible the private sight-test fee is typically <£30. #optometry
Kevin Stewart SNP@KevinStewartSNP
Good news! Under the SNP, Scotland has delivered a record number of free eye tests. Meanwhile in England, families pay up to £60 per person under Labour.
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@ApingSpring @Poppy_yyyyyyyy @ElliGower8 There’s a reason why everyone should have an eyetest every two years and the NHS covers the cost for those over 60. These things rarely change quickly. It makes it much harder for clinicians when there are multiple issues because someone has left it so long.
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@mrssanddune @Poppy_yyyyyyyy @ElliGower8 Indeed, but my relative's under 70 and neither eye was legal for driving.
We're hoping his cataract surgery will fix that.
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My mum, who is supposed to be on complete bed rest until she has her long awaited back surgery next week, has just been spotted by my neighbour rowing a boat towards Torquay. She is 74 and has several collapsed vertebrae. This woman will be the death of me.
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@ApingSpring @Poppy_yyyyyyyy @ElliGower8 Most people aged over 70 will have some degree of cataract. You wouldn’t need to stop driving unless acuity is reduced below the legal requirement or there are other issues such as glare. It can take years before surgery is needed.
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@mrssanddune @Poppy_yyyyyyyy @ElliGower8 I was shocked when I finally managed to persuade a relative to get his eyes tested, and we found out he had cataracts in both eyes.
He'd wanted to drive to the opticians.
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@Poppy_yyyyyyyy @ElliGower8 It’s the responsibility of the driver to inform the DVLA. Not his wife or doctor. As an optometrist I’ve lost count of how many old people have insisted their vision is fine for driving when they are actually illegal. It’s time they stopped self certifying on the renewal forms.
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@ElliGower8 😂 my grandma had to write to the DVLA multiple times because my grandpa was still driving after he’d been registered blind. He was insistent that it was ok because his doctor hadn’t got round to informing the DVLA 🤦♀️
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@Sarah57664123 @juliaisobela My ex-husband did a PhD in physics, a Masters in Audiology, then a Medical degree. He’s still searching for something to make him happy.
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@MsBethanJ I blamed my recent scratchy throat on sleeping with aircon on on holiday. It didn’t improve on returning home and turned out to be covid. I didn’t feel ill.
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Recently in GP, I’ve noticed an increase in consultations about bad sore throats/tonsillitis that are turning out to be covid.
Throat symptoms being the main presenting symptom of the infection.
Anyone else?
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@DrBenLovell I had mine done in 2002. Worth every penny. Wasn’t that painful afterwards as I took ibuprofen on leaving the clinic!
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For me laser eye surgery was
- 20mins of moderate discomfort
- 2 hours of excruciating pain when the topical anaesthetic wore off (happened in the taxi ride home & I started howling like a demon)
- 3 years (&counting) of life-changing perfect vision
Best decision I ever made
Yuri Sagalov@yuris
I had LASIK done yesterday and I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced a bigger miracle of science. 10 minute completely painless procedure and I woke up with 20/20 vision. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 8. Just wow.
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@juliaisobela I fell over in the mud on the way to my car at lunch time and then had to rinse my dress and tights in the community hospital toilet where I was doing my afternoon clinic. At least you were going home! I never chanced the shortcut to the car after that.
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My lowest med school moment was when I had to climb over a hill in my scrubs after a day in cath labs to get to the train station to get home
I fell down the hill & ended up getting onto the bus replacement service I was catching with my bum absolutely sodden with wet rainy mud
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@juliaisobela Personally, I find a stern face can be very useful. I think I’m generally quite happy and friendly looking once in conversation with people I like but otherwise why would I want people I don’t know approaching me?
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@JeanRhys____ @HadleyFreeman I also liked the comparison and discussion on why teenage girls might want to change their bodies.
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@HadleyFreeman Your book has been so helpful for me understanding my daughter’s anorexia. And I thought your analysis of anorexia’s interplay with gender was spot on. They are both about escaping the body — and both ways for girls to hate their bodies. Thank you for your book.
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Thanks for buying my book, Sally. Hopefully this will help you go to sleep: *I* don’t discuss gender issues in the book. Rather, it’s the multiple doctors I interviewed, most of them ex Tavistock. Hope that helps you rest easy!
Sally Hines@sally_hines
I’m reading @HadleyFreeman book ‘Good Girls’ about her - and other young women’s struggles with anorexia. In one chapter she presents such a confusing, ill-advised analysis of post-1970s feminist understandings of sex and gender that it’s actually stopping me from going to sleep
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@mancunianmedic My son, age 15, once mentioned that he was ‘going to the football’.
He didn’t mention that he was going to watch Sunderland. In Doncaster.
We live in Brighton
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experienced teacher in Times letters "the benign neglect of my childhood" vs "an intensity and selfishness that does kids no favours cos they will struggle in the real world"
Made me think. For me and many of my friends 70s/early 80s childhood *was* "benign neglect"
I loved it
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@doctor_oxford Government doesn’t seem to realise that there isn’t an abundance of trained healthcare staff just sat at home waiting to be asked to work weekends 🤦🏻♀️
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But who exactly will staff it in an NHS already short of over 130k personnel?
James Illman@Jamesillman
@LabourHealth says every local NHS system will be required to run "a weekend or out of hours service equivalent to 100 per cent of weekday activity for day case elective surgery, outpatient clinics and diagnostic investigations for 52 weeks of the year.” Big ask?
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@Dr_BellaR My mum had a hysterectomy at 36. On HRT shortly after I believe and no issues. Happy to ask her anything you’d like to know, although it was 40 years ago!
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@Melissa5857 @amandajplatell What I don’t understand is why having been in ICU with Covid in March 2020, he was happy to have numerous parties in December 2020 (pre-vaccine) and risk ending up back there! Suggests serious lack of intelligence.
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@amandajplatell No I bloody well don’t. So the Drs and nurses were in on this “lie” too?
There is no denying that Boris looked really unwell before he was taken to hospital.
This constant hounding of one man is abhorrent.
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Do you think Boris lied about nearly dying from covid?
I know this not to be a lie after being told by a member of Boris’s intensive care team they deeply feared for his life!
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@Dr_BellaR @Academic_owl I’ve always found Mac really helpful with no judgment on the fact that I don’t really do make-up! I have fair skin which tans very easily and I just want something to even the tone rather than heavy coverage.
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@RoshanaMN I’ve given up on lie ins as am always awake by 6:30. Best to just get up and do something else with the time! Im my case early morning swim or yoga.
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My morning for a lie in, husband downstairs with the kids, and here I am awake because body clock says no
Damn my 5 am wake up work routine and child bursting into our room routine
Roshana 🦴@RoshanaMN
Must I adult today?
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@LucyPearce13 @Louisdebernard I’d probably have been put off by the Mail on Sunday endorsement to be honest!
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Anyone else read this? One of the most depressing books I’ve read for a long time… not sure I can keep going with it. It’s definitely not the best book I’ve read this year!
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My friend @chrischirp won this prize for rigourously debunking a lazy, unevidenced claim from Katherine Birbalsingh about girls studying physics, which KB doubled down on rather than admit she was wrong. It's worrying that a leader and educator keeps behaving this way.
Royal Statistical Society@RoyalStatSoc
The winner of our best stats commentary category for the 2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards, sponsored by @ESRC is @chrischirp of @ucl_coru and @uclmaps for her article ‘Physics: Do girls avoid it because it’s too hard?’ #RSSAwards rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
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@LizJ73 @fliceverett I also found this confusing. Turned down by a fertility clinic aged 43 as little likelihood of success even with assistance yet advised by practice nurse to use contraception unless I wanted to end up pregnant naturally!!
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@fliceverett NHS advice for women is to stay on contraception till 55 Yet if 50 year old me walked into a GP surgery and said i was trying for a baby i would be laughed out of the place.
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Please let’s stop pretending it’s normal to be a ‘new mum’ in your 50s. Celebs who do this use surrogates or donor eggs and (rare) pregnancies are very high risk. Pretending otherwise gives older women false hope of pregnancy. The chance in a woman aged 50 is less than 1%.
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