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In thinking not being able to swan in for an injection cannot be compared to abuse in care

82 replies

MrsKravitz · 31/07/2011 10:22

I mean WTF?
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2020705/LIZ-JONES-The-caring-professions-They-just-dont-care-all.html

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SkipToTheEnd · 31/07/2011 11:42

I'm wondering how this even got approved by the editor? Did it go completely unnoticed how bad this would look or do they enjoy the controversy she creates?

This really casts her in a worse light then I've seen before.

belledechocchipcookie · 31/07/2011 11:43

I posted a comment, my first, telling her to get a grip! Hmm I'm called erm...right (if it ever shows up). She's a silly cow.

belledechocchipcookie · 31/07/2011 11:43

They've removed all of the comments. Hmm

SchrodingersMew · 31/07/2011 11:47

Angry I actually can't believe I just read that.

Fuming!

PeopleCallMeTricky · 31/07/2011 11:48

She can't really be serious though, can she?

SkipToTheEnd · 31/07/2011 11:49

Really? the comments were funny!

I rated a couple up. One about how it was entirely her own fault because she knew when she was travelling, she knew when she needed the jabs by and she left it late so it wasn't the surgeries fault and another one calling her a dozy mare :)

I cannot believe no one anticipated people taking this one badly!

diddl · 31/07/2011 11:51

So the fact that her private GP couldn´t accomodate her makes it the fault of the NHS?Confused

Well,it´s all bollocks-she can´t really only have 2 therapistsGrin

belledechocchipcookie · 31/07/2011 11:51

It's typical of the Mail though, inflammatory and ignorant.

DaisySteiner · 31/07/2011 11:56

That article is brilliant. Funniest thing I've read since Caroline-whatserface got struck by the freak tornado.

PeopleCallMeTricky · 31/07/2011 11:59

Grin at the self importance of the woman. Of course if THE GREAT LIZ JONES, investigative journalist (not just a ranting columnist, you understand) doesn't report on the famine, due to the NHS jobsworths, it won't be reported on at all, will it? Hmm

Columbia999 · 31/07/2011 12:00

How did this bigoted cow ever get a job as a journalist in the first place? She's a complete moron. How DARE she slate the entire NHS just because they refused to drop everything to agree to her demands? I've moaned about dragon-like receptionists before, but hats off to the one in this case! Grin

Mrsxstitch · 31/07/2011 12:03

Sad thing is I have come accross this attitude before. I have been accused of ruining someone's longed for trip when I don't have a vaccination or malarial tablet available 20min before they have to leave for the airport.

thursday · 31/07/2011 13:07

she's unreal. she's just tagged on a bit about care homes to disguise what is blatantly just a tantrum about not getting her own way, trying to make it more worthy than 'wahhhh, i wanted something and i couldnt click my fingers and get it!!!'

and poor Somalia, havent they suffered enough with famines and wars and FGM without sending that twat over there?

Columbia999 · 31/07/2011 13:10

Comments are back on, steam in! Grin

scottishmummy · 31/07/2011 13:27

she blames her poor planning and inability to rioritise on gp practice
shes loaded could have gone to private walk in surgery. but probably didnt want to cough up the money

soverylucky · 31/07/2011 13:37

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izzywhizzyletsgetbusy · 31/07/2011 13:44

She always makes an utter fool of herself Apocalypse but her antics are never funny as the woman is a twat of the first water.

What is it with the Fail and Jones? It's incomprehensible that she should be allowed so many column inches to spout her mindless drivel on every subject under the sun, let alone be paid sackloads of dosh for such puerile tripe.

motherinferior · 31/07/2011 13:55

I met her at the Fail Christmas party last year.

Be afraid, be very afraid....

izzywhizzyletsgetbusy · 31/07/2011 14:27

The comments on the twat's article should provide a rich seam of laughter later. Here's one from Oz:

"Funny how the Mail slags off the BBC for sending its big names to report on crises in countries they know nothing of, but is now sending Liz Jones - expert in cosmetic surgery and spending money like water - to report on famine in Somalia."

So, mother, you had the privilege of meeting the witch before her facelift What's the lowdown?

Why is she exalted by the Fail? She doesn't have the political nous of a cockroach so it can't be because she knows where the bodies are buried, can it?

Strictly between you and me, of course Grin

Sidge · 31/07/2011 14:28

She's an absolute twat.

I'm a practice nurse. We don't run a drop in service.

Anyway yellow fever vaccine has to be given at least 10 days before travel or the certificate isn't valid, so hers wouldn't have been as she only had it the day before.

All other vaccines may or may not have been in stock, and would have required a pre-travel assessment which can take 20-30 mins. Malaria tablets have to be started between 1 and 7 days before travel (depending which type you have).

If someone turned up at our surgery asking for all that lot the day before travel I'd have politely directed them to the nearest private travel clinic.

Oh and to make the link between a surgery not offering an on-the-spot travel health consultation and the abuse at Castlebeck is just vile Angry

PeopleCallMeTricky · 31/07/2011 15:12

Just made a resolution: this is the last time I give the mail website any hits. I'm not going to line their pockets by boosting advertising revenue any more Angry

maighdlin · 31/07/2011 15:45

there is a special circle in hell for liz jones types. what an utter dickhead. apart from her whole "liz jonesness" has she ever heard of a travel clinic? dedicated clinics that just do travel medicine then she could have waved her borrowed money in their faces and got exactly what she wanted. i just can't understand her at all. she is everything that is wrong in the world.

PirateDinosaur · 01/08/2011 11:41

Brian Kellett's blog response. I think I love him.

FourThousandHoles · 01/08/2011 11:47

words

fail

me

StewieGriffinsMom · 01/08/2011 11:54

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