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Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 6:11 pm
Replies: 58
Views: 4,249
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Medical Insurance - Deductibles Help

You should be able to get quotes for medical imaging. These are standard things and I have seen cash price lists for such. However when you talk about hysterectomy or any surgery that totally...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 3:38 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 2,149
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Getting a SSN?

Ignore this makes no difference in my experience
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 3:01 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 1,398
Posted By doconthemove

Racism in the UK

Was inspired to write this by jg relentless questioning of my experience and criticism of the UK in general. Live in my shoes jg the UK is ethnically your country not mine.

And before you start...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 2:49 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

And before you start questioning me jg do you have any idea what it's like to live as an ethnic minority in the UK being called a p*ki and being told to go home as you walk the streets on a regular...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 12:09 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

I spent 2 years previously here doing an MPH and electives during med school so I have a very good idea of the system here but yes I speak as a provider here not a consumer so yes perhaps that may...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 11:21 am
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

4 years with a short stint in NZ. Why the sudden love for the NHS? Suggest you go speak to families of Mid Staffs or Morecambe etc etc You seem to forget Medicaid, charity care and also the large...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 9:52 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

Sure there will be but given the exponential rise in the numbers leaving compared to 10 yrs back there are major cracks in the system coupled with mass vacancies they can't fill across the country...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 9:49 am
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

Coming from someone who thinks that they single fund the French Social Security system with their whole salary I doubt anyone on here gives any credence to the drivel you come up with!
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 9:35 am
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

Well from my usage it tends to be resistant acne I doubt it has fda approval for melanoma usage
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 8:48 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

Sure point taken but the range of options here far outweigh anything the UK could ever offer



Anyway back to the OP I didn't like the unnecessary snideness and teasing of him/her. A point can...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 8:42 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

Exactly in the UK they operate a policy of pretend it doesn't exist - time it changed but with UKIP on the rise I doubt it!
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 8:37 am
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

You sure it's 3k that seems very high even by U.S. Standards this is not a cancer med or anything particularly fancy
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 8:34 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

Yes once in the UK I wasn't given a job once because the admin thought I needed a work permit on the basis of my name despite them having a copy of my UK passport!! Go figure that one out jg.

Also...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 8:21 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

May well be but certainly less based on race than the UK googling NHS racism should provide an eye opener
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 8:13 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

Main thing that sealed my liking for this place is simply the attitude. None of the overt prejudice and discrimination that is widespread in the UK built up over generations of colonial rule over...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 4:54 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

'lot less money' ??? I not paying anything to settle here permanently all my costs are taken care of I am treated so much better here than the socialist mess the UK is
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 2:45 am
Replies: 273
Views: 45,882
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Is it worth moving to the US?

No that is completely untrue the millions spent by the NHS on paracetamol every year is testament to that!
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 2:26 am
Replies: 273
Views: 45,882
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Is it worth moving to the US?

90% of scripts in the UK are issued free of charge so for those ppl they would want a prescription for anything I mean anything! For them it's a free bandage not something that costs the taxpayer 3...
Forum: USA
Aug 23rd 2015, 2:16 am
Replies: 37
Views: 7,497
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to Orlando??

The OP has probably been scared away by the belittling and being poked fun at. I will try the more civilised approach.

Do you have a degree? If so look for a job in that area. You will get the...
Forum: USA
Aug 22nd 2015, 7:21 pm
Replies: 273
Views: 45,882
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Is it worth moving to the US?

It was very common to issue a script for calpol to someone which costs £1.50 from any store and if you asked the punter why they made an appt for this they would say well it's free inn it!!! Anyway...
Forum: USA
Aug 22nd 2015, 3:32 pm
Replies: 273
Views: 45,882
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Is it worth moving to the US?

They may well do but I would lay a large chunk of the blame on the british public for relentless abuse of the service just as using a GP appt. to get otc meds because they don't want to pay for it...
Forum: USA
Aug 22nd 2015, 3:17 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

Rather have that freedom rather than the rubbish the politicians and other non medical bigwigs throw at you in the UK
Forum: USA
Aug 22nd 2015, 1:04 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

Check the latest news in UK where they say GPs should be fired if they prescribe too much abx!! Another reason I glad I left. Can't win
Forum: USA
Aug 22nd 2015, 12:50 pm
Replies: 273
Views: 45,882
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Is it worth moving to the US?

Well having been here a few months now I can say that leaving the NHS and coming here was the best move I could have done.

I would encourage all UK docs to leave the socialist NHS quagmire asap....
Forum: USA
Aug 22nd 2015, 12:36 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 4,887
Posted By doconthemove

Re: Moving to USA and antidepressants

you sure all wegmans do that as a rule? hardly acts as an incentive to cut usage!!
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