Doctors

[Brummie a long time ago]

I think my earliest doctor was Dr Moreland. I vaguely remember the surgery being somewhere at the end of Digbeth High Street, where it turned under the bridge and on uphill towards the Kingston cinema and the Coventry Road I think a flyover was built there.
Up to date: I have just had an appointment with an advanced nurse. Like a nurse, but with 2 years extra university training. She is allowed to do some doctor things, such as prescriptions. For us regulars it is Doctor - Nurse - Doctor etc at 3 month intervals. One and a half hours going through my medications, and any problems. That is good value from the health system here. She speaks French, and .... French. I am exhausted now. Back home to practice my English with Julie.
Andrew.

 

[mw0njm.]

our first dr was like arthur askey he ran the surgery from his house the waiting room was once his front room complete with gas fire with huge frets

 

[Smudger]

In the 70`s we had 2 doctors that serviced all the villages round here. No appointments necessary & they also did housecalls. It`s all gone pear-shaped since then. There are a lot more doctors now & they pass a lot of the work over to nurses. Sad. !!

 

[mikejee]

But unfortunately many today go to their doctors and to the A & E with fairly mild symptoms, which they would not have considered worth a visit then.

 

[Smudger]

But unfortunately many today go to their doctors and to the A & E with fairly mild symptoms, which they would not have considered worth a visit then.

All calls to our local surgery are triaged. I f the problem is not deemed urgent then you may possibly get a phone session with a doctor or more likely a nurse. When i recently come out of hospital i phoned my surgery to say i was still in pain & needed some more pain medication. I received a phone call from a nurse to say a prescription had been sent to the pharmacy for me, 224 codeine tablets which was a bit overkill !

 

[mw0njm.]

it is very hard to see a doc now here when you phone them you have too listen to press one if your dead 2 if your half dead press 3 etc etc you get to speak to the recepionist they are the triage if they think it is not life threatening you are sent to see a prescribing pharmacist.

 

[paul stacey]

So true Smudger mate, The village Vicar, always about cycling in his patched cassock, tending to people who needed him, the village bobby always there if there was a problem, and the Dr, any time day or night ,always there, in those days most things worked well, not today unfortunately!!!

 

[Richard Dye]

All calls to our local surgery are triaged. I f the problem is not deemed urgent then you may possibly get a phone session with a doctor or more likely a nurse. When i recently come out of hospital i phoned my surgery to say i was still in pain & needed some more pain medication. I received a phone call from a nurse to say a prescription had been sent to the pharmacy for me, 224 codeine tablets which was a bit overkill !

OMG I would say so! I had back surgery last week, very sore but used an over the counter pain killer. If you need it you need it but 224. You would be lucky to get 10 without seeing the Dr. Hope you are feeling better!

 

[Richard Dye]

it is very hard to see a doc now here when you phone them you have too listen to press one if your dead 2 if your half dead press 3 etc etc you get to speak to the recepionist they are the triage if they think it is not life threatening you are sent to see a prescribing pharmacist.

Ah the telephone, the great deflector or putheroffer!

 

[Biscayne]

I only discovered this thread recently but looking back I saw mention of a Dr. Gourevitch. He was my Grandmother's GP in Aston. I recall that she admired him greatly, to the point that she kept this newspaper cutting concerning one of his sons. Sadly the date of publication is unknown.

 

[Lloyd]

I only discovered this thread recently but looking back I saw mention of a Dr. Gourevitch. He was my Grandmother's GP in Aston. I recall that she admired him greatly, to the point that she kept this newspaper cutting concerning one of his sons. Sadly the date of publication is unknown.

Arnold Gourevitch​

Former consultant surgeon Birmingham (b Paris 1914; q London 1936; FRCS), died from pneumonia on 5 February 2004.

During the second world war Arnold helped establish a hospital west of Canea, Crete. After being captured by the Germans, he and another doctor climbed the wire and escaped. He was awarded the Military Cross, ending the war at Trieste, Italy, and being demobilised in 1946. He was appointed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and Dudley Guest Hospital, and later to the Birmingham Children's Hospital. In the early 1960s he spent time in Ethiopia, teaching and operating and helping to develop a new medical school. In 1973 he took time off to help Israeli surgeons in the Yom Kippur war. He leaves a wife, Corinne; five children; and nine grandchildren.

(My underlining)

 

[Richard Dye]

Arnold Gourevitch​

Former consultant surgeon Birmingham (b Paris 1914; q London 1936; FRCS), died from pneumonia on 5 February 2004.

During the second world war Arnold helped establish a hospital west of Canea, Crete. After being captured by the Germans, he and another doctor climbed the wire and escaped. He was awarded the Military Cross, ending the war at Trieste, Italy, and being demobilised in 1946. He was appointed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and Dudley Guest Hospital, and later to the Birmingham Children's Hospital. In the early 1960s he spent time in Ethiopia, teaching and operating and helping to develop a new medical school. In 1973 he took time off to help Israeli surgeons in the Yom Kippur war. He leaves a wife, Corinne; five children; and nine grandchildren.

(My underlining)

A wonderful human being!

 

[Ada]

Does anyone remember a Dr Sangster (H J Sangster I think). His surgery was on Gravelly Hill Erdington 1950's / 60's?

I do, he was our family doctor for years when I was a child. He was Scottish ? We lived on Kingsbury Rd. I remember him as a kind man, v helpful to my widowed mother

 

[Astoness]

I do, he was our family doctor for years when I was a child. He was Scottish ? We lived on Kingsbury Rd. I remember him as a kind man, v helpful to my widowed mother

hi ada...that was in the day when the family doctor almost became family...sadly these days we dont always get to see the same doctor..my dad used to drink with our family doctor and when he retired dad took a good bottle of whiskey down to the surgery

lyn

 

[Alberta]

I have mentioned our doctor on here before the wonderful Richard Pomeroy R.I P.

He delivered my son 50 years ago and delivered most of the babies in Chelmsley around then.
The old surgery was demolished a few years ago and a new Medical centre was built in the road now named Pomeroy Way, a lovely tribute to a lovely man.

 

[Richard Dye]

On off topic but it seems that Birminghams planning horizon is 50 or 60 years then they tear everything down, re Albertas statement above, the Bull Ring, Perry Barr? That is a vey low and expensive horizon. One could have some pretty draconian thoughts about the planners there! It’s not about criticism it’s about careing.

 

[T Q]

Are there any past Harborne-ites reading? Maybe you went to Dr. McCook?

In the '50s when I was just single-figures old our Dr. was the very pleasant Dora K. McCook with a soft Scottish burr in her voice.

Her surgery was on High Street around a dozen properties down from the Post Office, in the photo possibly the further of the redbrick houses just down from Paynes though I am more drawn to the lower-roofed houses next to those - that the lady on her bike will be passing in just a second or two ... now!

There was a low garden gate that opened inward with a thumb-lever, and a path to the door past a small front garden and I can still clearly see - and smell, but not in a bad way - her waiting room that was the hallway inside with 4/5 barley-twist legged wooden dining chairs facing each other on the two sides: the door in the far-left was her office, which was the front room alongside in what I assume was her house.

Nothing but nice memories of someone I was always perfectly happy to be visiting if a need arose.

 

[Brummie a long time ago]

Just thought I would leave this here. Over here we have a gov sponsored health website, for doctors to leave prescriptions, and for specialists to leave reports for docs etc. There is a section to update your own details, so I thought I would update my current weight as it has gone down lately (hurrah). The page comes up "Enter your weight, value must be between 1 and 600 KG". (I was so tempted, just to see if anyone noticed. But I resisted).
Andrew.