On 17 Mar 2015, at 22:52, Jacq <jemkes@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Dear K

Montmerency2 asked me to speak to you today re arrangements for tomorrow.

He asked me to bring MSU to y. He suggested it would be good to see him for five minutes if possible. He asked me to let him know what Mr 007… secretary had arranged.

I spoke to your receptionist today.

She explained that you were busy and that  I did not need to come to Y  with msu but should go to the ‘lab’. I’m not sure where that is but I will work it out en route.

After some confusion I think and hope I have appointment with Mr 007 at 4:00 pm

Best wishes

Jacq

Jacqueline.Emkes

 

On 18 Mar 2015 05:18, Jerome to Jacq wrote:

Ah.

I will provide a brief analysis and then offer advice.

An MSU is a sample of urine, otherwise it would be a pee.

If you produce a sample then it must be analysed. If it is not analysed, it cannot be a sample. It is just some urine in a pot. So, as you seem to have produced an MSU, which is a sample, it should go to a laboratory for tests. This is clear, and we can accept this as a fact.

We do not have a laboratory of our own the surgery, which is a consulting practice, and not a hospital. The laboratory is based at …street. You could take the sample to the laboratory. Alternatively, we have a courier service, which acts to take samples of urine (which is to say MSUs, produced by patients, which we want to have analysed) to the laboratory ….. street. So, it is now clear that, whether you bring the sample to us, or take it to ‘lab’, it will end up at lab, and be analysed. We can accept this as a fact.

Montmerency2 is a Urologist, who consults with patients. He does not consult at ‘Lab’ in… Street, nor in fact does the Laboratory provide a consultation service. Indeed, as we have established, it does its best work analysing samples, such as MSUs, that have been produced by patients and end up at Lab either directly or indirectly as discussed in paragraph 2. Accordingly, if we are to assume that when Montmerency2 suggested he see you for a few moments, he meant a brief consultation, it would seem logical that he meant at …. (where he consults) as opposed to ‘lab’ (where he does not).

Extrapolating the facts and suppositions into a conclusion, Montmerency2  will be at …,can consult with you there, and your MSU sample can be sent from there to ‘lab’ for analysis. An elegant solution to this conundrum would therefore be for you to

1) produce an MSU (“the sample”)

2) deliver it to ….

3) see Montmerency2  there

4) have our team send the sample to the ‘lab’

5) the result will come to us (Montmerency 2)

6) he can advise any further action

 

Or have I missed the point??!!!

jacq – I hope this raises a smile and that you make a step forward tomorrow. I did not know that he (Montmerency 2) went there on a wed, but maybe he does. Anyway, if you are taking the sample there anyway, nothing lost…!!!

I hope it goes well.

I am at x  this afternoon so will say hello if I see you there!!

Have you signed up for NHS England yet?

Jerome

 

 

On 18 Mar 2015, at 06:08, Jacq to Jerome Jacq to Jerome

     Dear Jerome

How can you be so very funny at 05:18?

Brilliant!

I STARTED IT LAST NIGHT BUT HAD TO GO TO SLEEP JUST PuT FINISHING TOUCH TO IT THIS AM. And early am my best time of day!

I am tempted to send you the letter I did NOT send! WISE

 

 

NHS England =YES!

 

EXCELLENT. Keep me updated with stories and progress

 

Eek NAH

Jacq

One+1phone

Jacq to Jerome:

 

This is for blog unpublished. Not sure that even you should see it! Oh well.

 see blog entry ‘it was all going so well…’

On 18 Mar 2015, at 06:23, Jerome to Jacq

 

Mmmmm

Too many of us (Drs) don’t see it sufficiently from the patients perspective. It is a salutary read.

I will see you at or around 1530. Not sure what my diary looks like but will certainly find 5 mins from somewhere to have a real life chat.

For the benefit of my medical clear English campaign, and for both of our personal convenience, this will be best achieved at 101.,,

I can fill form if form unfound

It is good that you are the patient voice for NHS (start small, work up …)

Is the blog going to be a book? I’d be delighted to write a forward. Or is it a preface? I got a B in English.

J

Jacq to Jerome:

Well I reckon patients should see Dr point view too.

S’ok really. I was just a tiny bit annoyed?!

See you laters.

Watch out NHS England. 

J