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Wimbledon Private GP Clinic: Comprehensive Healthcare at Your Convenience

In today's fast-paced world, finding the time to prioritize our health can often be a challenge. This is where private GP clinics, such as the Wimbledon Private GP Clinic, step in to provide essential healthcare services tailored to fit into our busy lives. These clinics offer an alternative to traditional healthcare paths, combining convenience with high-quality medical care. In this blog, we'll explore the benefits of using services like those offered by the Wimbledon Private GP Clinic and why they might be the right choice for your healthcare needs.

What is a Private GP Clinic?

Private GP clinics are healthcare facilities that operate outside of the National Health Service (NHS) framework in the UK. These clinics provide patients with an option to access medical services through direct payment or health insurance, rather than waiting for NHS treatment. One such clinic, Wimbledon Private GP Clinic, offers a wide range of medical services, from routine check-ups and vaccinations to comprehensive health screenings and specialist referrals.

Benefits of Using Wimbledon Private GP Clinic

1. Speedy Access to Healthcare

One of the primary advantages of the Wimbledon Private GP Clinic is the minimal waiting time for appointments. Unlike NHS services, where waiting times can be lengthy, private clinics often offer same-day appointments. This immediate access is crucial for individuals with busy schedules and those who need prompt medical attention.

2. Extended Consultation Times

At Wimbledon Private GP Clinic, appointments are not rushed. Patients receive extended consultation times, which allow for a more thorough discussion of their health concerns. This detailed approach ensures that the GP can fully understand the patient's medical history and provide a comprehensive treatment plan.

3. A Range of Specialised Services

The clinic offers a variety of specialised services that may not be readily available through the NHS. These include travel vaccinations, private health screenings, and lifestyle management services. Such offerings make it easier for patients to receive holistic care under one roof.

4. Flexibility and Convenience

The flexibility to book appointments outside of traditional working hours is another significant benefit. Wimbledon Private GP Clinic understands that many individuals have commitments during regular office hours, offering flexible timings to accommodate these needs. Additionally, the ease of booking, often available online or via a dedicated app, enhances user convenience.

5. Confidentiality and Comfort

Private clinics like Wimbledon Private GP Clinic offer a high degree of confidentiality and privacy. The settings are typically more comfortable and less crowded than public health facilities, which helps in creating a relaxed atmosphere conducive to discussing sensitive health issues.

Choosing the Right Private GP Clinic

While the advantages are clear, choosing the right private GP clinic requires some research. Here are a few factors to consider:

Accreditations and Qualifications: Ensure the clinic and its GPs are registered with relevant health authorities and possess the necessary qualifications.

Services Offered: Look for a clinic that offers the range of services you might need.

Accessibility: Consider the location and ease of access to the clinic.

Reviews and Testimonials: Reading what other patients have to say can provide insights into the quality of care provided.

Conclusion

The Wimbledon Private GP Clinic represents a model of private healthcare that prioritizes patient convenience, accessibility, and comprehensive care. For those looking for an alternative to traditional NHS services, such facilities can offer an excellent solution. They blend modern healthcare delivery with the flexibility needed to meet the demands of contemporary life.

Whether you are dealing with a chronic condition, in need of a routine check-up, or require specialized medical services, the Wimbledon Private GP Clinic offers a tailored approach that respects both your time and health needs.

[opalsiren]

they should invent a getting literally any medical testing done that isn't excruciatingly complicated for no reason

[thegpclinic]

The Advantage Of Choice: Private GP Consultation Clinics Across London

London is a vibrant city with a diverse population, and having options when it comes to healthcare is a huge benefit. For their accessibility, convenience, and the individualized treatment they provide, private GP consultation clinics in London have grown in popularity around the city. In this post, we’ll examine the many benefits of visiting a private GP consultation facility in any part of London. To know more visit now at: https://iblogflare.com/healthcare/the-advantage-of-choice-private-gp-consultation-clinics-across-london/

[thissying]

Me and @lost-in-fandoms were wondering if GP is the only engineer who has a private chat with his driver just before the start/leaving the grid. So I checked the onboards of all drivers from around 10 random races from 2024 and 2023 and, with the disclaimer that you can only view them from the moment the broadcast starts 5 minutes before race-start, the answer is: yes.

Other things I noticed, the teams all seem to have their own pre-race routine. All engineers, except two, have a binder/notebook with them that they regularly consult.

Some engineers don't seem to be on the grid (anymore?) the moment the broadcast starts, others stay until the formation lap, some leave early sometimes which might be track specific - in Brazil the race engineer told Ollie Bearman he had to leave because it was a long walk back to the garage - and some seem to leave at a specific moment of the countdown to the formation lap.

Some leave with a thumbs up or a handshake [edit: or a fistbump] and a quick "good race" (or something to that effect, I imagine; I can't lipread), some leave without even looking at their driver.*

I've only seen Toto appear on the onboard once or twice, shaking his drivers' hands, but it could be that he usually does this before the broadcast starts.

I've looked at Max's onboard a lot more often and so I can say with certainty that Christian Horner always comes by for a handshake with Max and Checo and always looks to the race engineer to get the okay first before he shakes their hands. Helmut Marko always shakes the hands of both the Red Bull and Racing Bulls drivers. He does not look at any race engineer for permission; he's Helmut Marko.

[more-mara]

NO WAIT please talk more about WAG!Carlos because I actually REALLY LOVE WAG!Carlos and it's been on my mind for a long time and I felt like I'm alone in this. I really like the established relationship idea of Oscar looking mighty walking alone in the paddock, but once Carlos is there, walking alongside Oscar and holding his hand, everyone can see who's the dom and who's the babygirl 😂 not that dom dom but like who tops and bottoms.

In my mind Carlos is a man in finance or consulting. Because, damn, everytime I picture him in fitted shirts and dark coloured slacks my mind goes brrr. They share an apartment in London and Oscar always goes back home after races to him. Carlos visits Oscar for races everytime he can (but he always makes time for Silverstone), and everytime he visits, the journalists and social media literally go very crazy about "Piastri's very hot, sculpted by the God himself, Spanish boyfriend". Oh and Oscar claiming the Spain GP as his home race because "my partner is Spanish and he lives and breathes Real Madrid and I'm very sure I'll marry him so".

I can't picture of the announcement of Oscar coming out, but I think I like the idea of soft launching first through his instagram or maybe Estrella Galicia makes Oscar and Lando talk Spanish slangs and Oscar aces all the questions and be like "My boyfriend is Spanish and he likes to teach me Spanish terms" something like that. Then boom Carlos coming to a race with him.

Eventhough Carlos is the one who tops and is very good in bed, but him also being soft and fluffy and calls Oscar with pet names in Spanish (tesoro, cariño, mi amor, etc) and cooks for him everytime Oscar's back home.

I can picture Oscar on break, dumping holiday pictures on his instagram and everyone goes crazy of Carlos shirtless and flaunting his abs and his super fit body in one (or many) of the pictures. Carlos having his instagram private and everyone will be asking Oscar to let his boyfriend open his instagram for public lol.

I'm going to stop because if I continue, I'll literally dump my thoughts (including the NSFW ones) and this ask will be very long lol thank you for reading my rants!

Oh, you’ve been THINKING about this lol. Anon I love this please continue. Side note, I had written an entire response to this once already but tumblr deleted it 🤡 I can’t remember half the shit I originally said but here we go lmao

I 100% see the man in finance vibes I just wanted to go against the grain and say something else lol but I absolutely imagine him in some white collar job. He constantly wears tailored suits, even in hot weather which Oscar will complain to no end about but ultimately it won’t change Carlos’ mind because it’s his brand.

Oscar gets a little irked by it because he’s supposed to be the celebrity, yet he give off so much just a guy energy when he’s walking hand in hand with Carlos. Oscar highkey loves the attention which is why it bothers him so much when Carlos steals it from him.

In comes the Spanish gp and Carlos is in yet another equivalent price of a mortgage suit. Osc saying it’s “basically my home gp now, I guess,” with a giggle as he eyes the screen where Carlos is clapping and smirking when he notices the attention on him- sending a little wink towards the camera that has Oscar stumbling over his words.

The media always goads Oscar for being “the girlfriend” in the relationship (let’s be real, media love to heteroify queer relationships and would 100% do it to them) but it’s always water off Oscar’s back as he redirects the conversation to how sexy and successful his boyfie is, “He’s just bought a new property in New York 🙂,”

Regarding coming out, Oscar is absolutely of the “I don’t need to come out, I’m just gonna live my life,” stance. He probably drops a “my partner is opening a new business back in London, he’d definitely know better than me if that’s a good idea,” when an interviewer asks about whether he’d buy a house in Monaco. Twitter goes crazy “DID OSCAR JUST SAY HE???!!” and that’s that, now Carlos shows up everywhere he can to show off who Oscar managed to pull.

Oscar loves the pet names but can’t stand it when Carlos uses them in public- goes beet red when Carlos calls him ‘mi amor’ when speaking with a journalist.

NSFW because I can’t help myself- Carlos always refuses to fuck Oscar on a race weekend because “I cannot affect your performance,” and Oscar fucking hates it. Oscar is lowkey needy in bed and can be a little insatiable at times, especially during a stressful week (e.g. a race week) so he goes out of his way to tease Carlos every chance he gets- even in public to see how long it will take for Carlos to snap. Except Carlos never does and remains firm in his stance which Oscar whines and complains about constantly until Sunday night when Carlos finally touches him and fucks the weeks brattiness out of him

Side note, Carlos is good in bed, like- really good, to the point where Oscar can’t even think about anything except for Carlos’ insane dick game. Carlos is experienced in so many ways that Oscar gets insanely jealous every time he thinks about it- getting angry at the thought of Carlos fucking anyone besides him. It’s a funny contrast because Oscar was basically celibate when he and Carlos first met and their first time in bed had Oscar experiencing pleasures he never though possible.

And yeah, Oscar just fully posting thirst traps of Carlos to make everyone jealous that only he gets to see it on a daily basis.

[chussyracing]

What has been happening in the world of motorsports lately?

The new Ferrari car will be called SF-25

McLaren fired up their new car

MCL, Ferrari and Williams did tyre testing/TPC (some did both some only one etc)

Ferrari partnered with Vantage Markets

Australian GP will be sponsored by Louis Vuitton who will also make “Trophy Trunks” like you can see in Monaco

Moët & Chandon will replace Ferrari Trento on the podiums (and sponsor Belgian GP)

Aston will launch their car on 23rd Feb after dropping the Valkyria Hypercar yesterday before midnight

Guanyu Zhou became Ferrari’s reserve driver alongside Antonio Giovinazzi

Esteban is now... an actor besides a driver as well (it’s hilarious, look it up if you haven’t seen it yet)

Lando learned Charles’ new ad word by word (because he has feet kink and Charles is only wearing socks)

Franco played padel with Pierre and people go angry about it

Charles changed his logo… and people also got angry about it

Ferrari showed their new team polos and (surprise) people got angry about it

Formula E’s first EVO sessions pairing got announced (Beckham + Mitch Evans AHH)

Also Formula E recorded big upshift in viewership

FIA changed their mind about allowing a certain flexibility to the front wings and the new TD will activate in June

Gene Haas doesn’t need to invest money into the F1 project for the first time in its history

Liam Lawson’s race engineer will be Richard Wood (Checo already had him when his current engineer went on paternity leave so it is not really “news”)

Marc Marquez left Red Bull sponsorship due to Ducati’s deal with Monster

Arvid Lindblad is doing pretty amazing at Formula Regional Oceania but as much was expected

Maya Weugh and Aurelia Nobels got confirmed for another season in F1 Academy for Ferrari (driving for MP Motorsport and ART/Puma)

Nikola Tombazis spoke more about permanent race stewards and Zak Brown said that McLaren have no problem paying if it means the stewards will be hired professionals for all races (but there are no clear deadlines or details yet)

Toto was joking (?) about Val’s mullet being ugly and him not doing any nude calendars while in Merc (kinda nasty if you ask me, especially about someone who is an advocate for mental health like Val)

GPDA’s Alex Wurz said that drivers were once again not consulted about the new sporting rules about misconduct and had to learn from media

Pato O’Ward will be McLaren’s reserve driver for 2025 (with the possibility to call up Val had Pato not be available if needed)

Max’s race engineer GP was promoted to Head of Racing position (but should remain a race engineer too)

Red Bull will have a private testing day on 25th February

Also our comms said that the F1 75 Live will be interesting because they will be livestreaming it on our broadcast and from the instructions they got so far, each team will have exactly 7 minutes to present themselves, rest of the show will be different talk/music/entertainment

There have been multiple track changes made on the track ahead of season opener in Australia

there are multiple women in the rookie practice ahead of Jeddah in FE this upcoming week including Jamie Chadwick and Tatiana Calderon (but you will also know others like Kush Maini and Theo Pourchaire)

4 hours of Dubai (Asian Le Mans Series) starts tomorrow with Iron Damen on the grid

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The most powerful moment of the coronation of King Charles III was not the gold glittering off carriages or epaulettes — not the pomp and show and signifiers of power.

It was precisely their opposite: when Charles shed his gold robes and stood in a thin white shirt, his frail humanity implied.

Then a screen was erected around him and, shielded, he had a private consultation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who dabbed anointing oil with his hands on Charles’s bare breast.

"This was the most solemn and personal of moments,” Buckingham Palace said.

Charles was bare before God, in privacy, God being one of the last beings with no need to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

The Princess of Wales looked on as the screen shielded her father-in-law.

By contrast, she was at that point the most magnificent she had ever been, swathed in layer upon layer of regality, the dress, the robes, the hanging chains, headpiece and ribbons all serving to move the viewing gaze — subjects in every sense — from our awareness of Catherine Middleton with her everyday human DNA and towards the shared fiction of her transcendent queenliness.

Less than a year later, this moment is remembered with new and terrible power.

It is spring again, but it’s a time of hard Lenten moral reflection for us as a nation, in relationship to our royals, as well as an ever more voraciously unprivate modern celebrity culture.

Both the King and the princess have cancer, the latter’s disclosed by Catherine in an unprecedented video address on Friday, March 22.

Catherine’s speech was something of a plea bargain in which she traded not only her customary silence but her most personal of health ordeals in order to put an end to toxic rumours swirling online that had become in tone like an unruly mob rattling at the palace gates.

Or rattling at the figurative locks on her medical notes, with three workers at the London Clinic, where she and the King were treated, suspended and under investigation for allegedly trying to access her records (hers, it is important to note, the King’s were unmolested).

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What was so powerful about the anointing of the King was the sacredness of that space in which he could be fully human away from observation and judgment.

There should be another one-on-one consultation that is sacred, where anyone, from King to princess to pauper, can expect to be shriven in total privacy, and that is the sanctity of the medical room.

It used to be that priests were our only bound confidants, we could trust them to be privy to all our spiritual ills.

Now doctors are our secular priests: bound by law and ethics to enshrine confidentiality at the heart of the patient relationship.

As a result, our medical privacy in an age of oversharing and online surveillance feels both stranger and more necessary.

If we knew our every GP-inspected rash was to be posted on TikTok for the nation, many of us would quite literally die of embarrassment.

The King’s appointment behind the three-sided screen can now be viewed through the lens of royal illness.

The lavishly embroidered panels and expensive white shirt now replaced by the flimsy three-sided ward screen on wheels and thin hospital gown that can humble us all.

But it also enacts a principle at the very heart of becoming the monarch.

The medical-like screen is erected in the coronation to tell us there are some places the public cannot go; to tell us that there are sacredly personal moments in which a person, any person, however swathed in our projections of power, needs to be nakedly human.

Otherwise, they will go mad. We need to make sure the screens are erected around Catherine now.

Much is said, quite a lot of it by Prince Harry himself, of the dangers of the wives of the princes repeating the tragic history of their mother, Princess Diana, hunted by photographers.

He remains phobic to any hint of tabloid persecution or paparazzi chase. But this is a sideshow, even an anachronism in 2024.

He and others have not recognised how the “chase” has changed. Who needs paparazzi when there are a billion citizen hacks ready to take pictures with their phones, in case a convalescing woman nips to a Windsor farm shop with her husband?

Instead, the appetite now is not to see but to know.

The royals used to have a contract with the public: we pay for them, and in return, they give us their presence.

Nearly all of their official job is to do with surface: to show up, to put in appearances at a set number of functions, whether at the opening of parliament or the opening of a leisure centre.

But now parts of the online mob seem to be staging a coup. We want more than the surface, we want to puncture the skin barrier of the royal family and occupy from the inside.

The “fans” have become an invasive virus. The royal analogy is often that they are trapped in a gilded zoo. This new model, instead, casts the royals more as lab rats.

When Catherine disappeared from view in January after announcing a “planned abdominal operation,” the response from internet truthers was one of irate entitlement.

They are now the 1980s tabloids: ravening for intimacies and making stuff up when thwarted.

This wasn’t the boomer generation, who are both more respectful of the royals and more private about their own health.

It was the fortysomething mothers frustrated when they can’t track the phone location of everyone in their life; or the twentysomethings on Snap Map.

Both desperate for their personalised new Netflix season of “The Royals” to drop.

Catherine presents with such stoicism and dignity, it is easy to forget where this new invasiveness started: when she was pregnant with Prince George in December 2012 and hospitalised for extreme morning sickness.

While she was sleeping on the ward, a radio station in Australia rang the hospital switchboard pretending to be the Queen.

They broadcast the nurse’s comments about Catherine’s “retching.”

One could only find this prank funny if Catherine had already — a young, wretchedly ill, pregnant woman — been dehumanised.

George is now ten and his mother hospitalised again, and in that decade, the physical security of ill royals may have tightened but their claim to bodily autonomy seems to have weakened.

Some say Kensington Palace “brought it on themselves” by their wish for discretion; this claim is duplicitous.

The late Queen Elizabeth II became increasingly debilitated in her final years with not much detail ever given; just as her father, King George VI, died without disclosing his lung cancer.

I’m glad that the British do not subject their heads of state to the same publicised medical reports as the president of the United States; one shouldn’t have to present a stool swab to sit on the throne.

No, instead the apparent justification of all those clicking and posting conspiracy theories “worried for Catherine’s welfare” was this sinful truth.

As a beautiful, 42-year-old mother of three, her drama was more box office than the ailments of those older, a pound of her flesh was worth more.

Pity, Susan Sontag said in her 1978 book Illness as Metaphor, is close to contempt.

Back then cancer was still taboo. Those around the patient, Sontag says, “express pity but also convey contempt.”

Ask any cancer patient and they will say they don’t want pity: it is too isolating, it sets them apart, an unwanted privilege.

This is why the video plea of Catherine was one of affinity, rather than pity or privilege.

Last year, she sat in robes in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of her father-in-law, next to her future king son and future king husband.

In her video address last week, she sat on a classically English garden bench, pale, alone and in jeans, as bare of pomp as any royal can be.

No mention of kings or titles, just Diana’s ring on her hand.

Rather she gave an appeal, parent to parent, human to human, about her “huge shock” and her care for her “young family.”

And, finally, her kinship with anyone who lives in a vulnerable human body susceptible to a democratic illness like cancer, “you are not alone.”

Or, to paraphrase Richard Curtis:

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a public, asking for some time to endure gruelling chemotherapy."

NOTE: Additional photos have been included in this article.

[mightyflamethrower]

Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history.

Yet stranger still about such visceral, indeed lunatic hatred, despite Trump’s eccentricities and lack of a traditional political resume, his administration between 2017-21 was successful by traditional economic, military, security, and diplomatic standards. It was certainly not characterized by weaponizing the DOJ, Pentagon, CIA, or FBI, get-even vendettas, the use of lawfare, corruption, optional wars, open borders, hyperinflation, or a war on the environment—as predicted and alleged. Nevertheless, the idea of Trump as president justified to the left the greatest assault on our civil liberties, justice system, and free expression in modern history.

Indeed, at times the frenzy has ranged the gamut of an unprecedented two impeachments, a first Senate impeachment trial of a private citizen ex-president, and a coordinated effort to deplatform the major Republican presidential candidate from state ballots.

But at other times, the efforts were more sinister—and conspiratorial—to the point that the attempt to destroy the purported threat of candidate, president, and two-time candidate Trump apparently justified any means necessary.

In retrospect, what is the legacy of these unmatched efforts? They have established precedents, if ever again followed, will destroy the republic as we have known it.

1. “Russian collusion.” There was never any evidence that a 2016 Trump candidacy sought to “steal” the election through the intervention of the Putin Russian government. But a paranoid Clinton campaign, through the deliberate paywalls and agency of the DNC, Perkins Coie law firm, and Fusion GPS consulting firm, hired a retread ex-British spy, Christopher Steele—who was also FBI Director James Comey’s paid informant—to fabricate a “dossier” of invented scandals and salacious sex detail to smear Trump and ensure his defeat.

That effort required sowing the dossier throughout the government, partnering with traditional and social media, warping the FISA courts, forging an FBI-submitted document, and ambushing and destroying the National Security Advisor designate Gen. Michael Flynn.

Two years later, the self-congratulatory Robert Mueller’s “dream team” and “all-stars” of liberal beltway lawyers evaporated after finding no such Trump-Russian collusion—after a wasted nearly two years and $40 million. Meanwhile, revelations emerged of all sorts of covert FBI skullduggery—from erasing incriminating cell phone records, the revelations of the Strzok-Page text exchanges indicating an apparent FBI “insurance policy” effort to preclude a winning Trump candidacy, to the meltdown of Director Comey himself, who lied to the president that he was not a target of an investigation and then leaked confidential records of a private one-on-one presidential conversation to the media.

2. Indeed, during the Trump administration, we witnessed once more undreamed-of efforts to sabotage a presidency:

a) A former Pentagon lawyer publishing a call for either immediate Trump impeachment, 25th Amendment removal, or a military coup.

b) A planning session of the Deputy Attorney General and Interim FBI Director to discuss stealthily recording the President of the United States in hopes of finding enough off-the-record embarrassing conversations to justify a 25th Amendment removal.

c) A later 2020 campaign effort jumpstarted by the current Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the former interim CIA Director Mike Morrell, with help from former CIA Directors John Brennan and Leon Panetta, along with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, to round up 51 “former” (but actually many enjoying then-current CIA contractor status) “intelligence authorities” to publicly mislead the public by signing a letter that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop (then in the hands of and authenticated as genuine by the FBI) was once again a Russian effort to throw the election to Trump. It was an obvious scripted lie, but timely scheduled before the last debate to arm Biden with plausible denials and thus to help swing the election to him. And it likely did.

d) There was, in addition, an effort by the heads of the NIH, Francis Collins, and NIAID, Anthony Fauci, deliberately to obfuscate, and allegedly in the case of Fauci, to lie under oath, about the efforts of American health authorities 1) to evade U.S. prohibitions on gain-in-function viral research, by funding the third-party EcoHealth Alliance to facilitate the transference of American money, instrumentation, and consulting to partner with the Chinese communist Wuhan virology lab; 2) to obfuscate the truth that the lab had somehow leaked the lethal, manmade virus—birthed with the help of U.S. expertise—that was killing millions worldwide; 3) to promulgate a false scenario of a bat/pangolin origin; 4) to deny under oath the American government’s role in the birth of the virus; 5) to suppress dissident scientific voices; and 6) to advise radical quarantine policies that would virtually destroy the U.S. economy along with the Trump 2020 reelection effort, and then shift blame from their own culpability to a false narrative that Trump was the chief driver of a disastrous national shutdown that had ruined the economy and yet was supposedly nearly criminally lax in controlling the outbreak.

e) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, took it upon himself to 1) violate his own legal prerogatives as an advisory military official by unlawfully interrupting the chain of command when ordering theater commanders to report directly to him rather than as legally required to the Secretary of Defense in times of national crises, and 2) without presidential or Pentagon written authority, contacted his Chinese communist counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army. His stated aim apparently was to reassure the Chinese military that in Milley’s own view, if he should diagnose Trump, his own commander-in-chief, as unbalanced and intending to escalate tensions to the threshold of a possible nuclear war, Milley again would first contact General Zuocheng to reassure him that an erratic Trump would then be not in full command of American strategic forces. Then he, Milley, with others, would seek to de-escalate tensions and preclude a conflict.

Milley denied any impropriety. But he could not negate that he had no such authority to act on the part of the executive branch and was doing so in direct opposition to the President of the United States. Milley was also de facto creating a dangerous precedent for any future ambitious, freelancing chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, both to interrupt the chain of command and to self-diagnose their commander-in-chief to justify excluding him from exercising his responsibilities entailed in his oath of office.

f) In the 2020 election cycle, left-wing-funded legal teams systematically and under the guise of the COVID lockdown sued in favorable courts to overturn or modify state balloting laws to ensure the most radical and abrupt changes in U.S. voting procedures in history.

The net result was that in many key states, traditional Election Day balloting that had accounted for 60-80 percent of the cast votes was made a mere construct. Instead, some 60-70 percent of voters in many key states cast early- or mail-in ballots, even as the traditional rejection rate of such ballots drastically fell—again, as the numbers to be counted soared.

g) During this same 2020 election, according to liberal journalist Molly Ball, writing triumphantly post facto in Time magazine, a named “cabal” and “conspiracy” of billionaire leftist grandees, Silicon Valley monopolists, Chamber of Commerce, corporate entities, labor, and street activists sought to change balloting laws, street modulate demonstrations, enlist social media to censor and shape the news, partner with the FBI, and provide hundreds of millions of dollars to absorb the work of state registrars by supplying their own adjutant employees and voting materials. This was a holistic effort, Ball proudly wrote, that helped guarantee a Biden victory.

h) During 2021-2024, there were 91 local, state, and federal felony indictments launched against the ex-president and then-current front-running Republican candidate and opponent of the sitting president Biden. The charges were so blatantly political, and the principals in direct or indirect contact with either the White House counsel, the Department of Justice, or each other, that the multifaceted effort could be rightly termed a conspiracy to warp the legal system by destroying a political opponent. The charges would never have been brought against any other political candidate or against Trump himself—had he not publicly announced his intention to run a third time for president.

3. Never in recent election history had a presidential candidate in the midst of the final stretch of the campaign been the target of two assassination attempts—in part enabled by a climate of widespread and acceptable vituperation that equated Trump with a vile Hitler, fascist, Nazi, and dictator and thus encouraged unhinged would-be killers to delude themselves into believing they would forever be enshrined as heroes. And never would social media influencers, columnists, and celebrities voice near approval of such attempts on the leading presidential candidate’s life.

The first would-be assassin was an amateur shooter, who easily evaded Secret Service scrutiny to post himself in sight of bystanders, as he enjoyed a direct line of fire at Trump. Meanwhile, local law enforcement was desperately trying, in vain, to warn the lax Secret Service of the immediate danger to the president. The second wannabe assassin approached with impunity the most recognizably vulnerable spot on a local golf course, staked out a shooting position, and would have, if not spotted, been within minutes of having an uninterrupted shot at the president.

4. Finally, not since the Woodrow Wilson scandal of 1919-1920, have the media and the Democratic left conspired to hide the morbidities of a president that left him unfit mentally and physically to carry out the duties of the office.

That current and still ongoing covert effort put the nation at great risk, as evidenced by the catastrophic humiliation in Kabul, the successful Russian gamble that the U.S. would not or could not deter Putin from invading Ukraine, the unsteady and anemic reaction to the theater-wide wars in the Middle East, the hyperinflation of 2021-2, the erasure of the southern border, the deliberate greenlighting of some 12 million illegal aliens into the United States, and the weaponization of the FBI, CIA, and DOJ.

The final irony?

Those who were perpetrators of these illicit, unethical, and unprecedented efforts were themselves the first and most prominent to project Trump as the promulgator of conspiracies to debilitate the very institutions that they had already undermined and disgraced.

[cllightning81]

My Story

I'm not sharing this for sympathy more just to educate people on the fact that they never know what someone is going through. Also, because people never share these types of stories

For ten years (taking me back to my single digit childhood 😭), I have had chronic back pain that's been left undiagnosed for these ten years and increasing day by day.

Physical signs of swelling and constant pain with leg weakness occasionally nowadays.

It started off with local general practitioners (GP's) telling me it was just growing pains because I was so young. Pain kept up until my double-digit years, when I continued to go back to my GP until they told me it was a pulled muscle into my early teens I continued to go to my GP who told me to go to physio privately.

My family was in no place to afford this, but thankfully, we knew some private physios who would do it for free because they were family friends.

The first private physio did some acupuncture, which eventually helped, but then the pain came back and told me it was a pinched nerve. The second private physio told me it was a pulled muscle again.

Back to my GP nearing my adulthood (according to Scottish law) they sent me to a NHS physio who did all the basic information, felt my spine -detected scoliosis-, gave me exercises and referred me to rheumatology by this time I was on a painkiller called "Naproxen"

A year later. Finally got my rheumatology appointment met with the consultant who took my information, felt my spine -detected scoliosis, hyperflexibility in my cervical and thoracic spine-, promised he'd do something about this, sent me for bloods and X-rays.

Had my bloods taken. No sign of inflammation or rheumatoid arthritis.

Nearly 3 months later, I got my x-ray results. There is nothing there time for an MRI.

2 weeks later, I had my MRI. Waited 5 further months on my results. Irregularities in my sacrioloc joint but no inflammation.

At this point, I've been through two different types of painkillers. Diclofenac and co-codamol. In my teen years. 3 different types

It's time for another x-ray. It shows nothing. Found this out the day I got accepted into my dream uni for my dream course ( I didn't get the grades. However, I'm just doing a different course at my dream university)

Went back to my GP after finding this out for the trainee GP to tell a teenage me that I "might need a hip replacement in the future." Left annoyed and upset.

Started using kinesiology tape from a suggestion from Google for back pain. It helps a little, but I still have major flare-ups.

Over the past months now in my adult years (😭😭), I've been experiencing hip pain where I've been unable to lie, sit, or put any weight on my right hip. The hip is on the same side as my back pain.

GP receptionist tells me it's not an emergency even though it is causing me to lose feeling in my right leg and that the first appointment is in a week and a half.

Appointment rolls around, and I've got another trainee who dismisses me as normal. I mentioned I thought it might be linked to my back, and the whole appointment moved from my hip to my back.

At the end of the appointment, she tells me, "Surgeons won't do anything, so I won't refer you there. Rheumatology will refer you back because you were there recently, and more X-rays and MRIs are unnecessary radiation, so we won't do that"

IM STUDYING TO BECOME A RADIOGRAPHER I KNOW THE RISKS. Her patient centred careness was thrown out the window during this appointment.

So she tells me she'll speak to her supervisor about giving my lidocaine patches to help with the pain.

Two hours later I get a phone call from her where she repeats everything she said at the appointment and follows it up with "We're going to give you more diclofenac and lanzoprazole" to which I reply "I already have lots of that. I take it constantly, " but they have continued to give me it.

After I hung up, I explained everything to my mum, and I couldn't hold back the tears. The way the NHS treats young people in constant pain is ridiculous. I'm not being listened to.

All they see and have ever seen is my age. Never the condition. And now studying radiography, and I've requested all of my medical records and images because I need to know.

I've never been in so much pain physically and mentally, but here I am. I'm struggling so much, and no one's listening to me from the medical professions.

What do I need to do to get them to listen?

[007-nightfire-yakuza-agent]

>had to pay upfront for private gp consultation

>submit claim to health insurance

>denied as "treatment has not happened yet"

>speak to agent online

>gives entirely unrelated answer and closes chat

>call them up, currently on hold

[girlactionfigure]

🔅After Shabbat - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

Shavua Tov, blessings for a good and safe week, success for our soldiers, and the immediate safe return of our hostages.

A LOT of activity over Shabbat, HEADLINES ONLY for brevity.

🔻DRONES - from Hezbollah - x5 rounds - Northern towns

🔻ROCKETS - from Hezbollah - x5 rounds - +50 rockets - Northern towns

🔻ROCKETS - from Hamas - x1 round - +8 rockets - Sderot and surrounds

🚨MAJOR HOME FRONT ANNOUNCEMENT a few minutes ago

.. No school until further notice, OF ANY TYPE, nationwide.

.. No camps, no school trips.

.. No events exceeding 1,000 people.

▪️14-YEAR OLD JEWISH SHEPHERD IN SAMARIA found, murdered.

▪️CLASHES: JEWS AND PALESTINIANS IN SAMARIA due to murder above.

▪️DEFENSE MINISTER - “monitoring for planned attack by Iran and proxies.”

▪️DEFENSE MINISTER - “US and other allies have provided Israel with new capabilities to defend against Iran.”

▪️BIDEN RETURNS FROM VACATION - due to Iran situation.

▪️BIDEN - “I estimate that Iran will attack Israel soon”.

▪️US CENTRAL COMMAND GENERAL has left Israel after consultations.

▪️HOME FRONT COMMAND - HOSPITALS ORDERED TO INCREASE READINESS.

▪️PUBLIC SHELTERS OPEN - in Be’er Sheva.

▪️IRAN HIJACKS A CONTAINER SHIP - from UAE in the Persian Gulf because fractional Israeli ownership.

▪️IS THE SHIP PIRACY IRAN’S RESPONSE? - Saudi news says yes.

🔸CEASEFIRE TALKS - Hamas responds, not much change with impossible terms.

▪️GERMANY, POLAND - leave Iran, avoid Israel !

▪️AUSTRIAN AIR, AIR FRANCE, LUFTHANSA - flights to Iran canceled through Thursday.

▪️LEBANON - heavy IDF bombing in Rihan area.

▪️GAZA - IDF destroyed a rocket launch site with 20 waiting.

🔅After Shabbat (2) - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

🚨HOME FRONT - NO SCHOOL order includes universities, day care, kindergartens, private day care and private kindergartens, special ed, etc.  

No activities at community centers.  

Some universities announcing moving to online learning.

▪️POLICE DISPERSING DEMONSTRATIONS - by the PM’s home in Cesaria, by Kaplan, Tel Aviv, protestors told to get home by 11:00 PM.  However, videos around 9:30 PM show a large protest in Tel Aviv, so report of dispersal might be wrong.

▪️US SAYS - “attack against Israel in the early hours”.

▪️FOREIGN MINISTER - delays diplomatic visits to Europe due to the security situation.

▪️KINNERET - parks, parking lots and beaches closed immediately due to the security situation.

▪️US FORCES IN MIDDLE EAST - on maximum alert.

▪️DUBAI FLIGHTS TO TEL AVIV - turn around and return to Dubai a short time ago.

▪️GPS JAMMING - Over central Israel now.  Severe interference with GPS systems in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria and Lebanon, affecting air traffic at their airports.

▪️GERMANY - leave Iran immediately!

▪️KLM airlines to stop flying over Israel and Iran.

▪️NETHERLANDS - closes embassy in Iran and Erbil, Iraq.

Barak Ravid: "Four US and Israeli officials have told me the Iranian attack has begun. Drones have been launched."

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Understanding Private GP Consultations

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1. Swift and Flexible Appointments

One of the most significant advantages of a private GP consultation is the reduction in waiting times. Public health systems are often overwhelmed, leading to prolonged wait times that can exacerbate health issues. Private GPs typically offer same-day appointments, and flexible scheduling options, including late evenings and weekends, catering to professionals who find it challenging to fit healthcare into regular business hours.

2. Longer Consultation Periods

Unlike the often rushed encounters in public clinics, private GPs usually allocate more time for each consultation. This allows for a thorough examination, detailed discussion, and a more in-depth understanding of the patient’s health concerns. Such comprehensive appointments can lead to better diagnosis and a personalized health management plan.

3. Enhanced Continuity of Care

Building a long-term relationship with a GP who knows your medical history in detail can have immense benefits for your overall health. Private consultations often ensure that you see the same practitioner each time, facilitating a continuity of care that is sometimes lacking in public settings where patients may see different doctors.

4. Access to Specialist Referrals and Tests

Private GPs can expedite referrals to specialists and diagnostics, bypassing long waits often experienced in the public healthcare system. Moreover, they have access to a broad network of specialists and advanced testing options, ensuring that patients receive the best possible care tailored to their specific needs.

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Private GPs are not only focused on curing ailments but also on preventive care. They can offer more in-depth health screenings, lifestyle assessments, and wellness advice tailored to individual health goals and risks. This proactive approach can lead to early detection of health issues, which is crucial for effective treatment.

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The environment of a private GP’s office is often more comfortable and less crowded than public clinics, offering a serene atmosphere conducive to discussing sensitive health issues. This can make a significant difference in the patient's experience, especially for those who may feel anxious about medical appointments.

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[try-and-try-and-try-again]

Update - 04/06/24

I should probably mention I was discharged from hospital on Friday. I’m now in supported accommodation.

Discharge was really sudden. I was given no notice and also no care plan. I was referred to someone from ‘the key working service’ (external to the hospital) who I’d been seeing for the past few months. She’d been advocating for me, speaking up against the consultant when he was being rude and ignorant etc. (thank goodness I’m still under 25 and autistic because that was the criteria for referral to her and I don’t know what I would have done without her. Informal patients aren’t allowed to access the actual advocacy service). She told the doctors I needed notice, a gradual transition to the new house and that I needed to have a care plan in place and input from the ED service before I was discharged. They agreed, but the moment she went on holiday they went ahead and booted me out. I broke down in the meeting and the hospital staff made me go to the de-escalation room so I could cry without disturbing anyone. They said they’d come and talk to me afterwards but they didn’t as usual.

The past few days have been messy and overwhelming. The accommodation and my parents have been doing their best but nothing is organised and the staff don’t seem to know much about eating disorders (like what is really triggering). My key worker came to see me today as she’s back from abroad and she’s very cross about what’s happened.

We tried to get a GP appointment today because I have some issues but the hospital didn’t send a discharge letter to the GP surgery so they are refusing to see me. Bleurgh. I’m also on waiting lists to see a pain clinic and dermatology. It seems I will be waiting for over a year for both. I’ve been wondering if I should go private for some things because I’m desperate but I don’t know if I can really afford it. I guess I technically could but I don’t want to end up in financial difficulty (I owe the university money and need money to live on and for some unknown reason my PIP was stopped a while ago and my UC halved). Bleurgh again.

At least I am now somewhere quiet that isn’t full of people who seem to hate me and has comfortable furniture that doesn’t smell of urine.

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[crimsonthornedrose]

I have a neurological condition too and honestly I've never had any help from consultants. It took 14 years to get a diagnosis! It's horrendous. My last visit to a specialist I was in and out in under 5 minutes, they asked what I wanted from them as there was no cure 😳 shocking really. They wrote to my GP afterwards saying they didn't need to see me again. And people wonder why you lose faith in medical professionals! I really hope you find a diagnosis so that you can manage your illness as best as possible.

Omg I'm so sorry it took so long! D:

It's honestly so frustrating when you know something is badly wrong with your body and medical professionals don't take any notice! Some are so dismissive. They don't realise that one appointment could genuinely change your life!

Eugh I've had so many things like this through the years, just hoping for a decent neuro this month fingers crossed 🤞

I can't believe they've dismissed you even with a diagnosis it's crazy! I'm not sure where you are based but I'm in the UK and I will probably go back private if they're useless again! D:

I really hope you get sorted genuinely 🤗

[ukrfeminism]

NHS maternity services are getting worse with two-thirds of units in England now deemed unsafe as staff and hospitals find themselves under “huge pressure”, a damning report has warned. 

Some 65 per cent of maternity services are now regarded as inadequate or require improvement for safety, up from 54 per cent last year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found. Of these, 15 per cent are inadequate.

When looking at overall ratings, one in 10 maternity units are now rated inadequate, while 39 per cent are under the rating requires improvement.

The worsening picture of maternity care in England follows major scandals in Shrewsbury and Nottingham uncovered by The Independent. 

The report says the “overarching picture” is “one of a service and staff under huge pressure”. Staff cover “is often fragile, with the rotas relying on every consultant being available”.

It added: “On top of this, consultants face additional pressure from, for example, having to cover registrar rotas and extra on-call shifts to meet the needs of their service.”

One patient told the CQC: “I couldn’t move and asked someone to help me feed my baby and was told ‘you can do it yourself’ … [The midwife] also told me that she was very busy and had other patients that took priority – when I still couldn’t move.”

The report further pointed to issues with governance and lack of oversight from NHS boards, as well as delays to care and lack of one-to-one attention during labour. The report also highlighted poor communication. 

The watchdog has said a similar picture has emerged for ambulance services, with 60 per cent deemed to be inadequate or requiring improvement on safety – double last year. 

Mental healthcare was also highlighted as an area of concern with 40 per cent rated inadequate or required improvement for safety. 

Inspectors pointed to a lack of beds, meaning people can be “cared for in inappropriate environments – often in emergency departments”.

“One acute trust told us that there had been 42 mental health patients waiting for over 36 hours in the emergency department in one month alone.” the report said. 

In its wide-ranging report, the CQC warned that healthcare risks becoming a two-tier system, with society divided into those who can pay for care and those who cannot.

It said: “Getting access to services remains a fundamental problem… Along the health and care journey, people are struggling to get the care they need when they need it.”

Factors such as long waits for hospital treatment, waits to see GPs and for referrals, combined with a lack of staff, “increase the risk of a two-tier system of healthcare, with people who can’t afford to pay having to wait longer for care and risking deteriorating health”.

During a press conference watchdog officials said: “More and more people are entering that long-wait category and it's becoming harder to prioritise and deprioritise people, when as I say we are, they are seeing a number of people who, who have effectively not been sustained on electric backlogs arriving into A&E with a serious condition.” 

Research by YouGov showed that eight in 10 of those who used private healthcare last year would previously have used the NHS, while another study found 56 per cent of people had tried to use the NHS before going private.

The CQC added: “People may also be forced to make difficult financial choices. We heard from someone who receives benefits who resorted to extracting their own tooth because they were unable to find an NHS dentist.

“They then had to pay £1,200 on a credit card for private treatment, doing without household essentials until the debt was paid.”

CQC chief executive Ian Trenholm said the ongoing strike action by NHS staff – who are unhappy with pay and conditions – has contributed to backlogs.

Sally Warren, director of policy at think tank The King’s Fund, said: “This comprehensive report reveals the sad reality that the quality of care that patients need and deserve is not being met in many parts of the NHS and social care.”

A Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: “We are delivering on three major recovery plans to improve access to urgent and emergency, primary and elective care, and have made progress to significantly reduce the longest waits for routine treatment, despite pressures including industrial action.

“There are record numbers of staff working in the NHS and our historic Long Term Workforce Plan will retain and recruit hundreds of thousands more staff alongside harnessing technology to reform the way we work and save staff time.”