Doctors surgery not able to accept weekly magazines due to heath and safety

[Aeroflotgirl]

I went into my local doctors surgery to give them some weekly magazines (talking about Take a Break and Bella), and the receptionist told me that they cannot accept them due to health and safety, wtaf!!!!

She told me that the local hospital take them. So if the local hospital can have them, which they do, why can't they. I don't drive so the hospital is a distance away so not going to do that. stop the world I want to get off. Madness.

It is silly, this wasen't an issue a few years ago, you cannot put people in a bubble and sanitise the world. You touch a cash machine that hundreds have touched that day, same with a chip and pin. You push open a door of the Drs sugery that many people with germy hands have been. There needs to be germs to build up immunity.

When I went into hospital for a breast check, it took a few hours, waiting etc, thank god for those magazines keeping me sane, or I would have been looking at the walls. I have never caught anything from handling magazines in Drs or hospitals. The receptionist funnily enough, told me to take them to the local hospital, as they have them.

Yes going into a restaurant, and handling them menus, doubt that they have been sanitised.

I’d take that argument except hand gelbis generally next to the touch screens and screens are easily cleaned.

And I'd take that point were it not for the fact that in the 45 minutes I spent sitting near the screen last week, not a single person used the gel first and nobody went and cleaned the screen.

Agh those dirty touch screens in the Drs, it is so silly, it really is, it is up to the person if they want to pick up a magazine and read it, we are adult, we can make our own decisions thanks.

You’re spectacularly missing the point OP.

Think about the people that use a GP surgery. They’re not well people. EVERY person that touches the magazines are ill. not everybody that touches a restaurant menu/ATM/whatever else is ill. Added to that ill people are using the magazines and thus could be passed infections which for some could be disastrous.

A GP surgery is full of vulnerable people. That’s what it’s there for. That’s it’s purpose. Unwell people don’t need to build up their immunity. They’re already unwell.

I work in a library. I spend my days handling books that have been God knows where - some of the ‘substances’ on the pages of returned books are dubious in the extreme. And don’t get me started on the public computer keyboards. However, we’re not about to start closing libraries for infection control purposes.

I'm going to add to my point about the touch screens that at my last GP surgery, the screens had no gel anywhere near them.

Mamma not everyone in the Drs surgery is physically infections, I might be seeing the GP that day for my anxiety, or that I have a lump on my breast. Not everyone out in the community is non infectious, ill people touch menu, ill people use the ATM or chip and pin, ill people push open doors to shops etc. Let me as an adult decide whether to read that magazine or not!

My GP does have magazines in the waiting room.....

I always carry a pack of anti bac hand wipes and use them before I eat or drink anything, I always try and wash my hands too, in my surgery I've never seen anyone clean the touch screen, bp machine or handles. I just assume there are bugs everywhere so do my best to reduce the risk of picking something up.

The biggest problem is people. They don’t wash their hands enough.

I wouldn't read grubby magazines in the GP's, and don't even get me started on the revolting communal toys some put out!

Everything you do in life is a risk. Touching things unnecessarily in a place designed for ill people is one I choose not to take.

Why would you donate them to a drs surgery? That's really random.

I heard it’s an unacceptable risk which has been assessed by qualified experts.

I know, bloody experts. I mean where are they when you need them. Like Brexit, couldn’t they have pointed out that it would lead to a calamitous constitutional mess and that EU would deliberately screw us over on a deal.

Wait, they did but we didn’t listen and we knew better. Cos the internet agreed with us. And the daily mail. How right we were.

Nobody needs Experts, the EU or health and safety. They have all gone mad.

Most probably patients who read the magazines leave them lying about when they've been called by the GP and or Nurse and the Receptionists have to tidy up the waiting area constantly. I wish we would get rid of the clutter in our surgery.

I always had to wash my hands after reading a library book, you never know what is on them so I can see the reasoning. It never used to be a problem but have noticed that none of the surgeries or hospitals I have been to in the last few years have much reading material, I did see some magazines at the GP last year I think.

The way people are crammed in these days and desperate for a GP I would think the germs are everywhere anyway.

Why don't they have hand sanitation gel at the entrance as they have in most hospitals and certainly private hospitals?

It should be a personal choice. The bacteria will be in the place regardless of whether it's on magazines, chairs, door handles and or even equipment. They don't use a clean stethoscope after every patient do they?

Please don't leave shit like that in surgeries or dentists. Some of those pathetic articles are really triggering to some people, even the headlines on the front cover. I can't believe anyone still buys them.

They can’t have hand sanitizers out in the open as alcoholics steal them to drink...sad but true.

My surgery has magazines and I always take any of my old mags with me to leave there.

WhyDontYouComeOnOver...really? How do people cope when they see magazines in a shop or people reading them in public?

Some people read magazines just like some people buy newspapers.

Sorry OP you seem very overly invested in something that is a non-issue IMO.

The GP surgery doesn’t want your second-hand dog-eared magazines!

A “stop the world” moment it is not.

They don’t know where the magazines have been. My DM and DF keep a pile of magazines on the floor next to their toilet. Would want these to then be put in a Doctor’s waiting room....

Because Former Drs surgeries generally have magazines for people to read, and I was up that way. WhyDon't really judgy and nasty, people don't have to read them, as I said, I was glad that they were in the waiting room in hospital, or I would be bored out of my senses.

With my mobile not picking up reception in the waiting room, I am not really a book person. Says it all really, the snobbery from book people on here.