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So the Spanish have built a hospital for us because we are so incapable? Sweet jesus.

Probably be quicker to drive to Shannon and fly to Spain for a&e as well

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You have to have gone through the public system in Ireland and have either a consultant or GP referral. You also have to pay for your flights & accommodation and up front for the procedure before getting the costs of the procedure back from the State.

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It’s win win for Spain. Each patient will need at least one hanger-on. Then a couple of weeks post surgery recouperation in the nearby beach resort.

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100% they’ll be tagging procedures onto holidays. It’s in Alicante ffs!

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The Healy-Rae’s will be flying people out from Kerry International Airport now, rather than putting them on buses to Northern Ireland.

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Donnelly on the radio earlier

“We have an opportunity here to eliminate cervical check in Ireland”
You mean cervical cancer?
“Sorry yes”

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TBF they had the other destroyed a long time ago

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Egghead laying down the law.

mad-as-hell-angry

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Is it April 1st?

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The Egg could find himself fried, boiled or scrambled after the reshuffle.
Not that they’re burdened down with talent but he’s a useless, opportunistic piece of shit.

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Auld Elon should be running the HSE.

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Heard a few reports of antibiotics being hard to source in pharmacies.

What’s causing that shortage ?

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Whole Country is sick. Amoxicillin is in real short supply

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A lot of people have this RSV bug which is a bad dose. Folk are opting for various bottles of whatever Breda and Nuala are taking thereby causing shortages in many places. The cure is 1 large hot potĂ©Ă©n followed by 2 hot whiskies and fuck off to bed. You won’t be better in the morning but you’ll have turned the corner. Repeat medication on day 2 to banish the bug.

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I went in to the doctor with the RSV (formerly a bit of an owl cough). I got in at 5pm. He said he’d spent the whole day seeing people with the same complaint and prescribing antibiotics. He said he hadn’t seen anything like it in a decade.

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What did he give you? Calvapen?

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Augmentin Duo. Took the last one there at lunch. Just about cleared up.

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I thought once you got the RSV you’ll be vulnerable to catching it agin and agin ?

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Does RSV cause secondary infections as antibiotics aren’t worth a curse for a virus ?