travolta
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Post by travolta on Sept 30, 2024 21:03:44 GMT
Keep out of the hands of the doctors.
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Post by moonraker on Oct 2, 2024 8:32:05 GMT
Medical staff have grown accustomed to having their views challenged by Dr Google, but on the British Heart Forum someone reports having asked ChatGPT to analyse his Cardiac MRI results after a doctor had told him that there was no obvious damage. ChatGPT noted some "borderline low" and "subtle" results and suggested a further scan - which doesn't seem much removed from what a human had told him.
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Post by moonraker on Oct 3, 2024 7:21:08 GMT
I can't believe it: last November at a private hospital I paid £420 for an ECG plus £110 for "reporting". A few months ago, an NHS nurse told me that the cost to the NHS would have been around £100. A Polish friend has just told me she'd paid £20 for one back home. I Googled, and that was quite a low price, but the average was well under £100.
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Post by bracknellboy on Oct 3, 2024 10:51:42 GMT
I can't believe it: last November at a private hospital I paid £420 for an ECG plus £110 for "reporting". A few months ago, an NHS nurse told me that the cost to the NHS would have been around £100. A Polish friend has just told me she'd paid £20 for one back home. I Googled, and that was quite a low price, but the average was well under £100. that is a pretty ridiculous rate just for an ECG. Assuming there was nothing particularly special about it. I'm even dubious about the supposed NHS cost. Albeit there is a considerable "total cost" difference between having someone come in for a single specific diagnostic event vs multiple instances on a captive audience. If the number is right, earlier this year I cost the NHS an awful lot of money on that alone........
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benaj
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Post by benaj on Oct 3, 2024 12:27:33 GMT
In that case, apart from life saving covid vaccine, my last consultation was 2019, must be saving nhs lots of money😅
A NHS healthcheck every 5 years only takes 20mins, it doesn’t take ECG. Just blood testing and blood pressure.
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Post by moonraker on Oct 5, 2024 12:41:23 GMT
I can't believe it: last November at a private hospital I paid £420 for an ECG plus £110 for "reporting". A few months ago, an NHS nurse told me that the cost to the NHS would have been around £100. A Polish friend has just told me she'd paid £20 for one back home. I Googled, and that was quite a low price, but the average was well under £100. Yesterday I had some urgent blood tests at the local NHS hospital (lovely staff, excellent service), and two results confirmed my suspicions of an increasing problem. "Will you bring these to the attention of your Haematology department (currently monitoring me)," I asked. The nurse replied that they would be available on my hospital record for them to see, leading me to suspect that it would be up to me to mention them at my next telephone appointment on December 4, if it's not postponed again.
My relationship with the department is uneasy, and I've been thinking of getting a second opinion about the results from a private haematologist, at a probable cost of £220. I mentioned this to my Polish friend, who suggested an on-line consultation with a respected haematologist and family friend in Poland (who'd worked in England for some years, so presumably has good English). "It'll be expensive," she warned, "£60".
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