Houston, We Have A Problem. Part Two.

While I waited in the doctor's surgery this morning, a young lad came in and he went to the lady at the reception, it was quiet in the waiting room. He went up to her, and said, "Please can I see a doctor today?" She asked, "Why do you want to see the doctor?" I think that nonsense needs to stop, asking everyone in public why they are there, that is not fair, what about data protection and peoples private lives? The young lad said nothing, she rudely asked the question again, then he said, "For my mentel health," I felt for him, for he should not say such private things to a whole room of people. She asked, "What is your name and date of birth?" He said it, then with the note pad that was there, and the pen he quickly wrote something down, and he held it up to her to her face, at the glass. She read it. Then she said to him, "I will get the doctor to ring you in three weeks." 

I thought THREE WEEKS!!!!! The youth has just walked in for help, and he has been told, he would see a doctor for three weeks.  He plucked up the courage! That is very VERY Bad! He is at the dangerous age where lads commit suicide.

The staff on the desk was rude, and had no symphathy. What if that was her son? Would she had been that rude?

But the 3 weeks date is the norm now, I have worked with people who have been told the same. Three weeks is a very long time, if you are sick today, or worried, to have to wait three weeks from now is not good.

We have a problem.