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Pop quiz: what medical condition links these two things? Forgot to add alt text:

Left pic - Members of the Wachbattalion of the German Federal Defence Forces

Right pic - tablets of spironolactone, a potassium sparing diuretic

Anyway I can't believe y'all are making me do nights again. This is like making Harrison Ford pick up the whip for a fifth Indiana Jones movie. Unconscionable. Me pulling the old switcheroo for the ward bladder scanner

When people ask what a collapse of the NHS would look like, it's this, it's already here.

It's not going to be bricked up hospitals and no one answering 999, it's going to be lowering standards and rationing care. Acknowledging we can no longer help everyone who calls. In the ideal world we would dispatch and ambulance or a home visit to whomever requests, because the public aren't trained to differentiate symptoms, so we miss nothing.

But this is far from ideal. We don't have the resources to do this anymore.

There are so many more important problems in the NHS right now. Bed pressures, failing performance, cancer waiting times, COVID vaccinations, and mental health. To name but a few. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… The new health secretary should focus on patient experience, reducing ambulance waits in ED, and improving staff retention.