24 hours after seeing The Great Man. Regular readers may recall that he said he was referring me for a CT scan.................
Called the CT department: no referral on their system yet and they would then need a radiologist to "vet" it as and if it arrives. Presumably they do not trust the judgement of the consultants in their own hospital...........
Asked how long the wait would be and was told they try and fit cancer patients in quickly: one to two weeks! This might be Medway Maritime's idea of "quick"; no wonder they are in Special Measures. Needless to say, I have put a call in to the private hospital they recommended.
I was also told that he was referring me to the colo-rectal people for an endoscopy and potential biopsy/treatment. Tried to contact them: answerphone saying out of the office.
Bearing in mind that both of the above have to take place before I can even discuss the treatment for the primary problem, it does look like the hospital has a policy of either driving people to the local private hospitals or hoping that they will go away one way or another. Might explain the low life expectancy in Medway.
Will spend some time thinking about how to play this one. I dearly want to be able to say nice things about the hospital and do not want to play my "trump card" contact too soon. If he gets involved, my care will certainly come up to standard, but it is an irrevocable move once he knows what goes on (or does not) and the hospital might not recover.
Enough heavy stuff. Got 18 minutes to spare?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_100727&feature=iv&src_vid=JmyXTOHC3w8&v=W5_8U4j51lI
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