I need to let out the loudest primal scream as I'm stressed beyond belief darklings.
Lord Atos has sent me the dreaded forms which are now a yearly occurance (god help us all).
I wonder if he will wave his magic wand, and I will be cured and able to hop, skip and jump down the road, an eager gleam in my eye ready to start stacking shelves in Poundland or whatever? It seems Lord Atos works his magic with a majority of the sick, and less able bodied - one minute they are poorly and claiming sickness benefits, and the next, wow after diligently filling out their forms and attending their Atos medicals, well.....
They are told to go and get a job because they are not poorly anymore! Shucks, I just don't know how he does it.
I have my battle armour on darklings and I'm bringing out the big guns! Last time I got through this I helped 2 other people with their forms, and they got through it too.
Unfortunately Atos change the goal posts often, and don't tell us poor buggers.
I have spent days racing about gathering ammunition, in the form of doctors/health care professionals letters verifying my illness. Also researching how the goalposts have changed, boy its complicated.
It appears that by even turning up for your Atos medical you have already failed - they argue that it means you can therefore turn up for a job interview etc on time. But darklings, if you don't turn up they stop your money, damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Its really not designed for any winners.
Don't get me wrong, I am totally against a healthy person claiming sickness benefits, they give us poorly folk a bad name. But I honestly have never come across anyone who purposely defrauds the system in this way, I don't honestly think there are many that do, its virtually impossible!
Anyway, what I'm really cross about is, the fact that people with long term conditions like mine are reassessed every year. Surely someone who has been unwell for over, say 10 years need only need checking up on every 5?
My poor G.P says that Atos are making it impossible for him to do his job well. He has 70+ letters a week to write on top of his normal workload. He says its like Atos are undermining him as a G.P
Let's face it, any doctor that would rather work for Atos than in a legitamite doctors practise/hospital is.......uh hmmm not a very good one! So there you have it, not very good doctors employed by the govt. or let's be honest here, bottom of the barrel doctors that can't get a job in a G.P practise or hospital, are lording it over good/decent doctors trying to do their job, who now have a huge extra workload. Hmmm sounds a bit fishy to me, in fact I smell a rat, a great big ugly one dunked in shit! Which neatly ends this rant with the nickname of the man I hate most ...Idiot Dunked-in-shit! Apologies for the colourful language if easily offended.
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