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Moorfields on the other hand- we naturally think of the original specialist eye hospital on London but... creeping privatization....remember the Tories are breaking up and selling off the choice bits of the NHS so the rest will collapse and have to be saved by mostly USA medical companies proving that once again capitalism is the only game we are allowed.

Moorfields as a brand name has been copywrited by a private company and like Cadbury's we might imagine we're getting something old British high quality and what we're really getting is a private company that is costing the tax payer much more than straightforward NHS care. But we think dood old NHS even when it isnt.

Moorfields is only a brand name like any other company. I hope you do get good treatment but it is not what Moorfields used to mean.
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It was Moorfields in London - I saw Mr. Paul Sullivan there.

The Moorfields here is a commercial operation obviously - there is no NHS - all companies have to provide health insurance.

However it's closely tied in with the one in London and consultants continually flit between the two.
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Ever get the feeling that sometimes music loving graphic designers hope to appeal to a niche market?
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andrew Ivimey wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:41 pm Ah yes Dr Freud. Nahw I merely meant 'endoscope'. It's amazing lying on my side, bum exposed to the Consultant and young nurse and I'm watching the camera in my large intestine all the way to my caecum....any more you want to know ...well, it's not that pleasant but at least I got the results pretty much straight away.
Ah yes Mr.I. Been there had it done to me, the worst part for me was the super strong laxative I had to endure 12 hours prior to the procedure! The sedative they give me though was most pleasant :bounce:
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Another interesting customer on the phone yesterday. Really nice guy.

http://www.wiredguitarist.com/2015/09/1 ... s-guitars/
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Neal wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:32 am
andrew Ivimey wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:41 pm Ah yes Dr Freud. Nahw I merely meant 'endoscope'. It's amazing lying on my side, bum exposed to the Consultant and young nurse and I'm watching the camera in my large intestine all the way to my caecum....any more you want to know ...well, it's not that pleasant but at least I got the results pretty much straight away.
Ah yes Mr.I. Been there had it done to me, the worst part for me was the super strong laxative I had to endure 12 hours prior to the procedure! The sedative they give me though was most pleasant :bounce:
20 years ago I had the gastroscope, without the sedative, only the numbing spray at the back of the throat to ease the passage of the camera head.
A fellow patient who had gone through the procedure a couple of times before gave me a very useful tip: think of a pleasant place and just breathe slowly, concentrate on breathing and don't get distracted on any account.

It worked well. I only gagged once when the 'scope was almost out. During the procedure, my knuckles were white, holding onto the rails at the side of the gurney, whilst a nice nurse stroked my hair, as I watched the passage of the camera and concentrated fiercly on breathing.

Aha! said the man driving the scope. "What do we have here?" his enthusiasm for his job was admirable but the effect of that little exclamation was to fill my head with a terror and dread that was beyond my experience. I was, in my head, by now, making my will, wondering about the music for my funeral and hoping it would be a pain free end, as the scope continued to waggle to and fro as he poked around, shining his torch into every crevice and cranny of my stomach. The nurse having by now noticed the colour drain from my face, stroked my head more gently.

"what we have here is a hiatus hernia, I 'll back up and show you" (I'll take your word pal just get this bloody thing out, breathe breathe)
"Can you see those three flaps at the entrance to your stomach?" ( get this fucking snake out for fucks sake I can't take much more, breathe breathe)
"Well one of them is not working, so acid can get out; that's the pain in your chest that put you in here in the first place"
(ALRIGHT GREAT! GET THIS FUCKING THING OUT .....PLEASE!....breathe breathe breathe)

"I'm coming out now, you've done very well Mr Cresswell, we'll give you a diet sheet and some antacids and see how you go. It's a major operation to repair one of these and we don't like doing it unless we have to, so it's in your interest to stick to the regime"

I could have cried with the relief:
a) that it wasn't as serious as I'd imagined
b) that that blasted instrument was out of my body.

Before I went into the suite, the bloke before me had had the endoscope. Hope the Doc washed the equipment before using it on me. :shock:
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I've had two for the top and two for the errrr bottom so far. I begged for a GA the last time I had an endoscope shoved down my throat but they just laughed at me. The buggers gave me nothing at all (2nd time). It was a terrible experience and I did not behave well. Next time I will insist on as much anaesthetic to knock out a rhino. And yes, its great to know I haven't got Barrett's esophagus (yet, gulp). Hiatus hernia it is for me too.

On the downside so to speak the machinary doesn't hurt at all. I didn't even mind the enema to which Neal alluded. Nope a good clear out is a welcome thing I suppose. But when you are on the table and they want to get going the normal procedure is to 'mildly inflate' the bowel. To the patient what starts off as not at all unpleasant becomes increasingly very very very very uncomfortable, and it becomes increasingly difficult to be intellectually detached yet interested in what can be found up there |(it's all on the screen and jolly interesting it is too) in the large intestine and oh my what a complicated thing a bottom is.... Now its all very well trying to come to terms with this increasing 'sensation' and the beautiful young nurse took my hand and said, it's all right - you can fart if you wish. But of course I could not. This wasn't embarrassment or if it was it was on an altogether different level than I'd ever experienced before and, as I am sure you can imagine, I have been in some very peculiar and excrutiatingly dreadfully embarrassing places before!!!

When they finally let me go after a promise that someone would accompany me home, I left the building. Walking home, dear reader, I farted and farted and farted, with such great relief joy happiness and contentment that all was well, once more, with the world. But OMG (adolescent hysteria)!!!! it was appallingly uncomfortable and 'novel'.

Anyway, long and short of it, I welcome this sort of procedure; they can explore me as much as they like, but for my throat, please put me out of it. I am a WEED. Downstairs I mind much less and welcome any sensible foray. If this sort of experience stops me getting cancer then I am up for it - I might not like it up'em ( as Corporal Jones used to say (sort of) but 'bring it on!' says I.
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in regard to Shane's last customer link....
something that has occurred to me at odd times in the past...

can a chap that makes electric guitars really be called a luthier?

I confess I didn't read the whole article so it's possible there was mention of him making acoustic guitars as well, in which case the question doesn't apply, but is still valid.
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That of course is the trouble with my job. Whilst I would love to have spent a happy half hour discussing such points, all he wanted to talk about was when his broadband was going to be mended. Lovely bloke though. Talking on the phone you’d have thought he was a lawyer.
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ed wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:21 am can a chap
...or chapess...
that makes electric guitars really be called a luthier?
Tricky - I believe that the common usage of the term is for anyone who makes stringed instruments that are either plucked or bowed. Originally, it meant "lute maker", but has become somewhat more generic.

i.e. not a piano, but possibly a harp.
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Someone who doesn't build guitars very well is a Lax Luthier.
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snigger.... I suppose a chap (or chapess) can call themselves whatever they like: Napoleon, Lord Snooty or Thrimnamulon the Great but when it comes to some sort of service or goods provision there needs to be some sort of standard or objective reality.

Luthiers are not regulated in the way Vets are so we have to grind our teeth and put up with pretentious pratts. The dealings I have had with Luthiers has been from 'word of mouth' recommendation. It can be difficult...

I feel that Jack's answer is sufficient if not actually reassuring.
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andrew Ivimey wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:29 am
On the downside so to speak the machinary doesn't hurt at all. I didn't even mind the enema to which Neal alluded.
No, no, it was a laxative. You mix it up, 2 litres of the stuff, you have to drink 1litre in half an hour AFAIR wait an hour and then drink the second litre. It has a consistency of watered down syrup and tastes ‘fruity’ :shock:

You then spend the next 8 hours two paces away form any convienient located lavatory!
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for Nick..when I typed the first sentence I thought to myself this might not be gender specific, but then I had a second thought and went with the person in question, i.e the man in Shane's conversation.....it's frustrating when you actually think of something, then change your mind, and then are reminded how your first thought would have been the correct course....oh waily waily

I know I should have copyrighted snigger(maybe dastardly already did).

No, the reason it tickled my curiosity in the first place(luthier) is that the very term conjures a picture of a skilled artisan pondering the thickness, tone and longevity of a thin piece of wood. Then, further, making it even thinner at times, to within a hairs breadth of it's very existence.....then shaping it, heating it, cooling it and finally glueing it...and then cosmetically doing some marquetry(that any old Sunday afternoon fiddler can do) to shoddy it up a bit. Then applying some black art conjured finish to preserve and enhance the tone/timbre etc.....


Now consider chopping out a bit of old alder, routing a bit of maple and sticking this together and spraying some epoxy/lacquer on top...

the skill levels just didn't seem compatible to me.....I may be wrong on many points here.
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I feel the same about the term "Engineer".

I trained for years, have a degree, did research and designed bits of the Harrier (and other stuff). However, I might as well be fixing toasters or washing machines...
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