Swine Flu

Christ, am I sick of this sodding condition. Frankly it would be a lot better if they'd stuck to calling it Flu. H1N1, or H2N12, who actually gives a monkeys. The bottom line is simple. If you get flu, you get flu, and any strain can give you anything from the sniffles right through to ITU and death. It happens every year, and just because this one happens to be a bit nastier to youngsters and pregnant ladies, did we need a national crisis. No we didn't. The last thing we need to do, bearing in mind our political masters have spent twenty years convincing our healthier than ever population, that every disease is lethal and they should see a Dr immediately (in fact preferably even before they're ill, just to be safe) is create a new super bug that sends them all hysterical. If you've got bad flu, you can't get in to see me, you're very poorly and even blinking hurts. I saw three of those all winter and all needed admitting. (Two had swine flu as it happens) My surgery however was even fuller than normal with the usual sniffles and mild aches and pains that warranted nothing more than a "there, there" and a LemSip.
"Is it swine flu, Doc?"
"Listen, chum, I don't know and care even less, take some paracetamol and bugger off"
"Don't I need antibiotic, you know you can't be too careful"
"No you don't, and yes you can, so will you now please bugger off"
"I was a bit worried about that Clostridia Difficile too, what are the symptoms......."