{"id":57226,"date":"2016-08-02T05:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57226"},"modified":"2016-08-02T05:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:14:50","slug":"to-thine-own-self-be-true-a-reply-by-jayantha-vincent-perera-counter-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/02\/to-thine-own-self-be-true-a-reply-by-jayantha-vincent-perera-counter-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"To thine own self be true\u2013 a reply\u00a0 by Jayantha Vincent Perera\u00a0Counter reply \u2026\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I am glad that I opened the Pandoras box ( by the way my blog is called pandorasbox 50) \u00a0to raise the importance of the Ambulance Service in UK and also in Sri Lanka ,which is the subject of many news items today .I never meant to run down or criticize the ambulance service in UK ,but my contention was to explain how good our government health service .With such a poor income levels among the poorest and inefficient tax collection system in Sri Lanka ,our state doctors are trying their best to give the service people deserve .<\/p>\n

My samyak prayoga\u201d I exercised in UK was decided collectively with my wife because my health condition \u00a0was so critical ,and my wife and I knew it was the only way to get urgent medical attention in UK during the weekend .<\/p>\n

As he has\u00a0 provoked\u201d the debate ,I would like to highlight similar incident I have experienced in UK last November when I attended my daughter\u2019s wedding in a rural wedding hall in Gloucetershire ,It was a cold winter and the room my self and my wife were allocated was not very well heated \u00a0and I started getting similar systems of getting asthmatic attack . As we went back to UK from Sri Lanka where we had a very warm whether ,sudden weather change would have been the reason for the attack.<\/p>\n

Next day I had to usher my daughter for the wedding ceremony ,hence I did want to be taken to emergency Unit in Gloucester , and yet I called the\u00a0 Ambulance service in the middles of the night as I had all the symptoms of chest pain and difficulty in breathing .\u00a0 Paramedic came driving her own car alone just after 1 am in the morning ,brought her own ECB unit ,nebuliser and all the medication and spent almost 1 hour trying to ease by breathing . She uggested that I should be taken to emergency care and I begged her to treat me so that I can be at the wedding service until next day \u00a0.<\/p>\n

It went well ,I recovered and attended the wedding next day and again in the night I started getting asthmatic attacks and paramedic came again ,this time it was he\u201d and he was so kind and nebulised me on the spot .<\/p>\n

Came back to London ,and I had it again and this time I decided to that I should be taken to Emergency Care ,I did not fake this time .<\/p>\n

I was taken to the Emergency care in Northwick Park Hospital and as I am not a critical patient I was asked to sit in the lobby inside for three hours until the staff doctor came to me to treat me for my somewhat eased breathing condition\u00a0 .<\/p>\n

The doctor checked me and prescribed some drugs to be taken ,like prednisolone\u201d and I went home by a taxi next day morning\u00a0 after spending 5 hours in the emergency care unit .<\/p>\n

I asked for a prescription to buy the drugs ,but he asked me to go to GP next day and collect a prescription .I was annoyed but he was adamant .<\/p>\n

Next day I was trying to get an appointment with GP ,and I was told by the GP\u2019s \u00a0secretary over the phone that next immediate appointment is in a week!<\/p>\n

Well, it was like whole in the bucket \u2013in the song Harry Belafonte sang.I went back home\u00a0 an almost called the ambulance to go to Emergency Care to get treatment<\/p>\n

I almost \u00a0used the samyag Payoga\u201d again ,to get the medical attention ,but under protest from my wife I refrained .<\/p>\n

I went to GP service in Clementine Churchill Private Hospital ,paid 60 pounds to the GP and got the drugs which suited me fine .<\/p>\n

Point I am trying to make is that I have paid so much tax in UK and we retired people find it difficult to get emergency medical attention through conventional GP service in UK ,hence using such\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tricks is somewhat used by many in UK<\/p>\n

Mr Vincent Perea,s claim that I should have been honest ,may ne justifiable ,but when you lie down on the bed ,being unable to breath due to the purported Asthmatic attack ,I would have ended up in the morgue with course of death as heart attack ,which would have culminated from the breathing problem.<\/p>\n

I do not agree with him that paramedics could have given me wrong medication, but\u00a0 am sure that they would have known my condition well.<\/p>\n

By the way when you have had a Quadruple by pas 10 years back, you are always worried that any pain below the neck, up from torso is a heart attack !!<\/p>\n

The attacks are sometime silent and you would not know when you are diabetic .<\/p>\n

Sarath Obeysekera ( dropped my Dr title as I am not a medical doctor )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarath Obeysekera I am glad that I opened the Pandoras box ( by the way my blog is called pandorasbox 50) \u00a0to raise the importance of the Ambulance Service in UK and also in Sri Lanka ,which is the subject of many news items today .I never meant to run down or criticize the ambulance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}