Very busy today, probably won't get much time on the laptop until later tomorrow afternoon. Not work or chores or anything dull like that though, we've just decided to whizz off for a walk and put everything else to one side.
Meanwhile -
let's go from dreadful to even worse says "Sir" Rod.
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If he wants to pay for people to have scans, then let's hope he likes being forced to pay even more under Starmer for people not to have scans.
Have a relaxing day!
Sir Rod's statement was incomplete... it should have been "...change the bloody government for one that is better."
There's the rub. The only possible alternative in England is Labour. How lucky do you feel?
A friend who splits his time between the UK and NZ has posed a philosophy question for you all.
The diagnosis of Diabetes II depends on the reading for HbA1c in your blood. In the units fashionable at the moment the threshold is 48 in the UK and 50 in NZ.
His current reading is 49. Is he a diabetic?
Dearieme:
My brother when living in Malaysia was told by his doctor that he was diabetic. Had to watch his diet, take tablets, sample his blood.
When he got back to the UK, his new doc told him there was nothing wrong with him. Miracle cure! Send us the diabetic Malaysians!
An interesting call on LBC last night, around midnight, was a man reckoning that Labour would be better at reorganising the NHS than the Conservatives.
The latter will always get blamed for the failures, and the former praised for sorting out everything, while charging everyone a lot more of course!
Interesting debate though...
@dearieme
A philosopher ought to think more clearly (snark). Diabetes is a symptom although most people, including doctors and philosophers, wrongly call it a disease. One of my pet beefs is that doctors often treat the symptom rather than the disease.
So if you regard diabetes a symptom then setting a measurement at which medical care is invoked can be seen as a purely administrative issue.
So your friend has a disease of impaired blood glucose control (and probably some other metabolic abnormal functions too) that requires medical intervention in the UK but not yet NZ.
Thankfully the treatment of 'diabetes' in the UK is more nuanced and will usually involve drugs to help control the glucose in the blood, as well as statins for high triglycerides and cholesterol, and drugs to manage high blood pressure.
Bucko - thanks, it was better weather than we expected.
Sam - maybe he hasn't met Starmer and Rayner. Or any of them perhaps.
DJ - it's a stinker of a choice isn't it? A real dilemma for those intending to vote against the worst option.
dearieme - I've seen some unpleasant consequences for people who didn't bother much about their diabetes, so I'd suggest taking at least some action. On the other hand, a chap I knew managed his diabetes very well, but contrived to fall downstairs at home and kill himself.
Scrobs - the Labour approach is bound to be more money and bureaucratic targets though, not much else.
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