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Post by linseed on Dec 28, 2019 20:08:10 GMT
Anyone know if this Christmas special is repeated at any point in the near future? My recording has failed. Boo hiss.  |
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Post by marion on Dec 28, 2019 22:44:11 GMT
I checked the EPG and no sign of it in the next seven days, and the new series starts a week tomorrow. Can you get iplayer? It will be on there.
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Post by linseed on Dec 29, 2019 9:57:12 GMT
Yes I can get it on iPlayer, but I can only get iPlayer on my iPad, so it will be watching a very small screen. Oh well, have to do I suppose
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Post by marion on Dec 29, 2019 10:31:15 GMT
In today's Sunday Times they report that CTM is being used in India as a training tool, because it demonstrates high levels of patient care.
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Post by beverley61 on Dec 29, 2019 13:11:56 GMT
It definitely does and the midwives do talk you through it as they go. I would imagine they will edit all the peripheral stuff and show the complicated births.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 5, 2020 20:45:51 GMT
I see we are up to 1965. When did diptheria finally die out in the UK? Anyone know?
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 5, 2020 21:43:57 GMT
I don't think it ever has entirely, if the conditions are right and a person carrying it is in them, I think it's still possible. Particularly if someone has been to a country where it is still viable. However we all get vaccinated as children.
I remember two cases of leprosy around 1999, picked up in obstetrics.
Rickets is still seen amongst immigrant populations from Asia and many of the women are vitamin D deficient at a very young age.
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Post by sleepyp on Jan 5, 2020 22:06:48 GMT
When I was given a tetanus vaccination about 6 years ago I was told it included a booster to protect me against diphtheria
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Post by Miranda on Jan 5, 2020 22:10:31 GMT
You would imagine that people in Asia wouldn't be suffering from a lack of vitamin D.
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Post by cakewalk on Jan 5, 2020 22:38:14 GMT
I have researched a little bit of diphtheria, and it seems to be an infection, not a vitamin deficiency. As, of course, was smallpox, but the world isn't extinct of it yet. So babies, even these days, are still vaccinated against it.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 5, 2020 22:48:27 GMT
Sorry, I meant rickets, not diptheria. I know that's bacterial.
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Post by cakewalk on Jan 5, 2020 22:51:05 GMT
Fair enough, Miranda.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 5, 2020 23:02:08 GMT
Sorry I should have been more clear what I was talking about. Just a bit surprised that children come from Asia with rickets. Women not so much of a surprise as so many cover themselves when outside the house.
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Post by cakewalk on Jan 6, 2020 0:03:05 GMT
Stands to reason I suppose that a child might bring it into the country if women weren't covered.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 6, 2020 10:02:28 GMT
I know a man 2 years younger than me that had rickets as a baby. In this country and in a comfortably off family. It's left the lower leg on one side a bit different from the other, but my goodness he has fabulous legs and he's very tall  |
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