Cough cough = Confusion for patients.

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http://www.3weekcough.org/home.html

 

Have you had a cough?

 

This NHS campaign is urging people with a persistent cough to go to the doctors.

 

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/health/people_with_coughs_and_colds_clogging_up_a_e_1_4114177

 

People with coughs and colds clogging up A&E

 

So the advice from doctors in Sheffield is;

 

The city’s health professionals say many of those queuing with coughs, colds, vomiting and diarrhoea could have received quicker treatment simply by visiting their GP or pharmacist.

 

How does that work then?

 

I recall having pulled a muscle in my shoulder last year, and it was putting pressure on my lung, making it hard to breathe, so I popped to the doctors.

 

Prescription = Antibiotics, when I clearly needed pain relief, and did not have a chest infection.

 

Pity we can't write our own prescriptions.