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Jan 29, 2010 23:46

Title: Honesty Is Honestly The Hardest Thing
Pairing: Gen....almost definitely going to stay gen...I'll let you know otherwise.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: This exists in the same land as the Clangers. Only difference is I wish they were real whereas this....definitely do not wish it was real.
Warning: Violence, swearing, homophobia, and just nastiness.
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adamgrrrl January 30 2010, 04:10:00 UTC

i know it doesn't have any real bearing on the story, but what do NHS & MRSA stand for??
i also think, that instead of collectively paying the $5 mil, the broadcast comp's should have been fined $5 mil EACH. with all the broadcast comps we have, that collective payment is just a drop in the bucket to them...

adammlambert3 January 30 2010, 06:19:46 UTC

Mrsa is a type of staph infection that is resistent to some antibiotics. NHS is Natitional Health Services i think.

pumpkinriver January 30 2010, 09:39:42 UTC

Correct and correct :D

pumpkinriver January 30 2010, 09:44:16 UTC

Oh, it totally didn't cross my mind that people wouldn't know those! Sorry :S

British hospitals have been having problems for the past few years with MRSA being passed on to patients due to, in some cases, poor hygiene in the hospitals. Not all hospitals but some. It became a real problem there for a awhile and the news latched onto it before they got caught up on some other story and left it alone. Doesn't mean it's not still happening though!

alienanalysis January 30 2010, 10:32:03 UTC

Yay for a Brighton mention! Fortunately I haven't needed to go to our hospital yet, but if it's as bad as it is in your BBC report I hope I never need to!

Another fab chapter :)

pumpkinriver January 30 2010, 12:09:39 UTC

Thanks bb! Hope fully speeding along to the end now :D

From everything I've heard from people who've been there Brighton hospital is not at the finest standard it's ever been. It used to be good but over the past 10 years just seems to get worse and worse. But I'm a little biased as a friend's boyfriend went in with a broken leg and following mistake after mistake ended up with almost no muscle control in the foot at all as well as, you guessed it, MRSA. Yes he was very very unlucky but some of the stories you hear from it are ridiculous!

alienanalysis January 30 2010, 20:45:52 UTC

No way, that's awful!! I used to sell private medical insurance and so many of the people I spoke to had horror stories about the NHS and swore they'd only go private in the future.

Looking forward to the last few chapters and seeing how it ends. BTW, I'm starting to plan out my Big Bang fic and trying to get some feedback from my LJ friends... can I sound a few things out with you? I'm not necessarily looking for a full-on beta, just a few fellow writers that I can use as a sounding board throughout the process :)

pumpkinriver January 31 2010, 00:03:22 UTC

Og course I'll have a peek bb! :D I'm not writing anything for the Big Bang so I'll be completely free after this monster is finished! Sound away :D

alienanalysis January 31 2010, 13:04:49 UTC

Brilliant! I'll drop you a PM once I get my plan finished, thanks bb :) :)

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