I go to the doctors very rarely, I am an ignore it, it'll go away person as a rule but being worried about a swollen eyeball went in to make an appointment with my GP(by the way, the last time I went to do the same I was told that my, then GP, had retired seven years earlier!) to be told that Dr. A. had a THREE WEEK!! waiting list and did I think I might live that long(well, I made that last bit up but was asked could it wait that long) I don't know, said I, my eyeball is swollen, so an appointment was made with a different doctor for the next day.
This got me thinking about the appointment system. Just supposing I had been on the verge of suicide and had summoned my last, tiny bit of courage to go to my doctor. Don't you think that to be told there is a three week waiting list to see him and couldn't it wait and, why did I want to see him, that my small flicker of hope may have gone out and I might have gone home and hung myself?
Could I, do you think, bring this up, somehow and how would I go about it? Maybe an "emergency" letter box, just inside the door, for things that you can't, somehow bring yourself to say face to face?
What do you think?