Just to show that general practice isn't just sore throats and bad backs, this morning my receptionist calls from downstairs and, demonstrating admirable sang froid, says:
"Would you like to come downstairs now, doctor; someone has collapsed"
I go down, and there he is, measuring his length on the floor, sporting a head injury he sustained in his fall to the floor. But he's conscious and alert, with a reasonable colour and quite good pulse. We gently frogmarch him in to a downstairs consulting room, put him on a couch and give him a cup of hot sweet tea. My nurse performs an ECG to check he hasn't had a heart attack, dresses his small head wound and then we let him go.
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Earlier this week, Israel's Binyamin Natenyahu was in the USA, basically putting 2 fingers up to them and indeed much of the rest of the world which has criticised Israel for continuing to build settlements in the region of East Jerusalem under military occupation.
"Jerusalem has been an Israeli city for 3000 years" he said, "So why should we not build there now?"
Well, some might say the world has moved on a little in 3000 years, but not the Israelis. For them a story book has told them they are God's chosen people and that they have the right to behave how they choose- regardless of the rights of other peoples. East Jerusalem and the West Bank was illegally occupied (according to the UN, though nuts to them, apparently)in 1967, and ever since they have been grabbing more and more territory, creating walls higher and longer than the Berlin Wall ever was, in order to deny the Palestinian people their human rights. And still the USA, which holds the key to forcing Israel to co-operate, stands by and lets them do as they please. How much longer? Isn't it time to treat Israel like South Africa under apartheid and isolate them from the civilised world until they play fair with the Palestinian people? No brainer. Of course it is; indeed it is long overdue.
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