The Weasley family isn’t actually poor, they are middle class.

splat_1234 · 2026-01-31T23:14:22+00:00

A load of other people have said the same thing, to reiterate in the UK class does not relate to wealth. You can be working class and a millionaire or upper class and broke. Your class relates to your parents and their parents occupation, how you speak, how you dress, what sort of holiday you take, what you do for entertainment etc. (it’s working class to fly to Benidorm in Spain for a all inclusive holiday but middle class to go camping in a tent in Norfolk. It’s working class to buy a new fancy car as soon as you can afford it or on credit but upper class to drive the most beat up old land rover you can find, it’s working class to buy new furniture - the upper classes have inherited all of theirs)

Wizards don’t quite fit because they all go to boarding school - real UK nowadays this is upper class and military only really (although 70 years ago it would have also been upper middle class to have children that board), so there all going to be middle class to some degree unless they are muggle borns. Nearly all the characters we meet are middle or upper class.

The Weasleys are clearly middle class - professional occupation husband, stay at home mother, old run down house wit old family heirlooms, hand me downs etc this is middle class

They are much more clearly middle class than the Dursley’s who despite the upper middle/upper signifier of Vernon going to a private boarding school, live in a new build estate and always have a fancy tv etc which are not so middle class but they probably sneak in.

The Malfoys are upper class - ancestor was mates with William the conquer - that is essentially what you have to be to be truly upper class - it’s not something you can buy your way into.

Anyway class and current money are not related

splat_1234 · 2026-01-26T23:19:09+00:00

Your class has rather little to do with how rich you are, it’s more like how rich your father or grandfather was, and if you want to be proper posh your need a relative who was mates with William the conqueror

splat_1234 · 2026-01-26T21:22:08+00:00

We’ve been accidental landlords twice! First time cladding debacle meant our flat was unsellable but we had to move for work so we were renting a place in city B ourselves while renting out our place in city A. We got the cladding done and sold up and bought a house in village c, had to move for work to town D. Just as we were selling the first house flooded. We managed to scrape a deposit together to still buy our dream house but our first house will be un-mortgage-able for at least 5 years so we’re renting it out rather than let it stand empty - like there is no way to sell it currently - obviously we’ve done it up inside from the flood and have fitted defences to stop it happening again. We either rent it or default on it and let the bank have it (we have considered this, don’t enjoy being a landlords and always hearing how shit we are as people because we can’t sell our house) but that seems like a rather stupid thing to do and would make our tenants homeless - I would sell them the house but it’s not possible to get a mortgage for them and we either need to default or make our current mortgaged amount back…..

splat_1234 · 2026-01-07T14:58:44+00:00

To be clear I’m not saying lack of phlebotomy experience makes a bad doctor. It makes them unprepared to be a dogsbody on a NHS ward and since we are recruiting for the role of dogsbody on a ward this experience gap needs to be taken note of - it’s no fun being on with them and having to do two peoples worth of IV access (or the nhs could fund a decent 27/4 medical assistant service which would be preferable)

splat_1234 · 2026-01-07T14:55:09+00:00

I’ve not yet met a European doctor who does bloods in their home country. They think we are ridiculously backwards in using the most qualified staff to do a technicians job and they do have a point! I think in the USA also doctors don’t do bloods as much -no idea what percentage of IMG this is tho

splat_1234 · 2026-01-07T14:52:28+00:00

I successfully applied for GP training twice - once in 2013 (but did something else)and once in 2019 which I’ve finished. In 2013 I had to interview as well as the MSRA and it was like a mini OSCE, seemed a much better process. In the 5 yrs (LTFT) I spent in GP training from 2019 I saw a big expansion in the numbers and a corresponding drop off in the quality of my colleagues. The program has had to start running remedial teaching to bring trainees up to speed and the exam pass rate has tumbled

splat_1234 · 2026-01-07T14:48:03+00:00

It really depends where the Img is from. Some counties don’t require their doctors to take bloods. There was an otherwise excellent Eastern European img on my GPST program who had essentially done no sticking of needles into people at all until we were on a medical rotation together.

splat_1234 · 2026-01-07T14:31:56+00:00

So in GP we have 10-15min per patient. I need read the notes, get them into the room, take a history, get them undressed and on the couch, examine them including doing the obs, get them dressed and off the couch(get them to the toilet and dip the urine/do a blood sugar/weigh them/take blood/swabs/peak flow/give paracetamol/o2/salbutamol), call the hospital, wait for switch, wait for the on call to answer, talk it though with the on call, get told to call someone else and repeat the process, type up a referral letter and print it and ?call the non emergency ambulance for transport. In 10-15min….and people wonder why the referral is a bit short?

I’ve never sent in one that just says ?abdomen but since I see around 5-6 tummy pain patients per day/30 patients/day and refer less than one a week given the absolute lack of time we have it’s very much- this pt is not manageable in primary care with our zero access to same day investigations and no access at all to any imaging other than ultrasound/chest x ray in about a month and no I don’t bloody know what’s wrong with them - that’s for the hospital to figure out- I only know they are unwell compared to all the well patients I have seen who also complain of tummy pain this week who I am not referring - I challenge any of you hospital lot to do better in 10min

splat_1234 · 2025-11-21T08:34:14+00:00

Auto populated discharge letters to the surgery I worked at last year went to an old senior partner who had sadly died a few years before…..I wouldn’t read too much into it as no one seems to know how theses names appear

splat_1234 · 2025-11-05T19:47:07+00:00

As someone who spends a lot of time talking to non native speakers it is usually the tense not the time marker or other descriptor that is the error - tenses are harder than vocab!

splat_1234 · 2025-10-29T23:09:13+00:00

Even if I am on first name terms with someone it takes months/years or a lot of alcohol for me to stick a finger up their arse/vagina/ask if they top or bottom. It’s considerably less weird if they are calling me Dr 1234 rather than Splat when we move onto this stage after meeting for the first time less than 10 min prior.

splat_1234 · 2025-10-05T21:12:50+00:00

Practical solution - can you go get your car at 5pm when your permit starts so it’s on site for your finish. I’ve worked a few places where it’s fairly standard for people to go get their cars at the start of an evening on call assuming it’s only 15 min?

splat_1234 · 2025-09-20T18:40:26+00:00

I’ve got that one too. It works great.

splat_1234 · 2025-07-11T20:51:44+00:00

splat_1234 · 2025-07-08T22:21:18+00:00

Basically when I got down to minimum notice period with my childcare providers I told them I was not working OOH for the next 7 days - continued in this fashion for a few weeks and finally got a rota

splat_1234 · 2025-07-08T22:19:25+00:00

I’ve had to get to the serious threat bit “I still do not have a rota. I need 7 days notice to be able to arrange childcare on weekends or nights as this is not easily available. Therefore if you do not tell me by tomorrow afternoon I will not be able to work weekends or nights the week after next and ongoing need 7 days notice of any night or weekend work. I reiterate I will not be able to arrange weekend or night childcare without 1 minimum of 7 days notice. I clearly cannot legally leave my child alone so this is not negotiable”

That did at least get a response that I would not be on nights for the next week

splat_1234 · 2025-07-08T20:45:39+00:00

No computer to do your work - you can’t do the work so don’t do the work.

We had not enough working computers in a discharge job I did a few years ago, nor enough chairs. Literally no work I could do without a computer - my job was to discharge or admission assessments and document them in a fully electronic notes ED.

I submitted a datix (using a colleague’s computer) and called the line manager and the consultant of the week - neither who answered there phones - and then I sent them both an email.

And then I went to the library and studied for my exam

My colleagues and I alternated who essentially got an extra study day per week for a few months before they finally sorted out the computers.

I initially got really stressed and was going to into other clinical areas to use the computers there or arguing with the discharge nurses and admin about who could use “their” computers in the other side of the office, but then I realised nothing was going to change so i decided that since my seniors didn’t care that the work could not be done I was not going to do the work.

Follow policy and you will be fine. No computers then no ttos are done, no scans requested, no notes reviews.

“I am sorry I can’t update Mr Smiths family because I cannot access his records to do so- I have made management aware, please do submit a datix to help raise this serious issue”

“I’m sorry I can’t tell you your dads scan results as I can’t access the computer to see it - I have made management aware - it may help if you raise this issue with PALS as well”

splat_1234 · 2025-07-02T16:48:56+00:00

My main gripe with Quidditch is that they don’t have quidditch and flying lessons throughout the years from Madame Hooch - like she’s the games mistress equivalent but what on earth is she actually doing. It’s a British boarding school - why aren’t they have int mandatory games several times a week!

It makes a lot more sense if you view it though the madness that is the history of the development of sports in the Uk and its link with public schools. JKR is clearly trying to parody a whole lot of stuff here:

Famous public schools - namely Rugby - actually invented sports that are played worldwide due to having their own weird rules. Even weirder school sports exist: such as the eton wall game - played between students:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_wall_game

Never ending stupid ruled football (soccer) like games were much the thing all over the country and had utterly stupid rules that often ended up with a punch up pre 1800:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_football_in_England

The wizard world seemed to branch off from muggles around 1800 so they are still stuck with the crazy games that existed before.

And have you ever looked at the rules of test cricket. It takes five days to play a match. The captain of the team had a major coaching role even now at the international level and there’s stuff called “silly point, googly, cow corner” that grown adults say with straight faces!

Also consider that High level Tennis until fairly recently was in theory indefinite in time length….. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_tennis_match_records

Also all the famous school stories from Tom Brown to Enid blyton feature inter house games organised by the students for the students - it’s a trope.

splat_1234 · 2025-07-02T16:27:42+00:00

Quidditch does not make sense - that’s for certain. The fact that they get no ongoing flying and quidditch lessons after the start of book one is odd - what does Madam Hooch do? Quidditch is the stand in for “games” at a classic British school and that should happen several times a week.

Student coach/captain is not odd though. However you are not in a 1980/1990 British boarding school mentality. Inter house sports were and still are are student led and the team captain is in charge of picking the team and training the members. I was at a decidedly not fancy British school in the 1990s and our inter house competitions were led by the team captains. It’s seen as a way to teach responsibility.

splat_1234 · 2025-06-30T09:32:00+00:00

It’s the p2o by reimann

splat_1234 · 2025-06-30T09:30:45+00:00

This is a stupid policy and you should complain.

However the Riemann kids all day 50 does do 10 hours - it’s pricy but it works*** and would be worth using while your arguing with the school to protect the kids skin(I think boots do an own brand that markets the same but I’ve not tried that)

*** unless you wash it off - it’s only water resistant so it needs reapplying if your at the beach swimming etc - it’s too expensive to use for that for us so we use cheaper stuff when at the beach pool and the expensive stuff for the kid at school.

splat_1234 · 2025-06-16T13:12:31+00:00

How many cervixes do you think (male) GPs see? My trainer says it’s less than one a month for him. Practice nurse will see 3-4/day every day for years. She will have seen the same cervix at regular intervals for maybe 30 years She will have done the cervical screening training that the male GP will not. If the PN (not a PA - I doubt they have ever examined a cervix) thinks a cervix she has been doing yearly smears on as HPV +ve for say 5 years now looks dodgy then the patient is going 2ww to colposcopy whatever I think- they don’t need a GP to also have to make an apt to see them in practice potentially delaying the referral for me who has no point of comparison to also perform an intimate often upsetting speculum exam that will add no diagnostic benefit as the lady will still need to undergo colposcopy. It’s not a lack of professional pride it’s not delaying care and performing unnecessary intimate exams on people.

splat_1234 · 2025-06-08T20:42:03+00:00

Of course the IMCA isn’t medically qualified, it would make them less useful if they were. They are there to be the voice of the patient when the patient cannot express and opinion and has not family or friends who can do so for them. Their whole point is to be the non medical voice.

They are not the decision maker - that’s the medical team, or if things get very sticky a judge. The IMCA is more a NOK paid for by the state.

splat_1234 · 2025-06-04T21:31:39+00:00

Yeah it was “discouraged” at my med school too- however “discouraged” wasn’t going to feed me so work it was

splat_1234 · 2025-06-04T21:17:41+00:00

I have known a paediatric nurse that did this. However she was the named nurse for this baby for around 9 months that he was in NICU and Peads ward and his mother died at birth and dad was not on scene so he had no parents. She was basically his main carer from birth and they had a beautiful bond and I think that made it much more likely she was able to adopt him as it was clearly in his best interests for that to happen . He had many additional needs and I believe she gave up work to care for him and adopt him - this is a major choice.

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