Your being daft now.

And it is a problem, of course it is you have large flaps of skin which obviously rub and sweat which can lead to alsorts of problems.

No i'm not. There are amny weird and wonderfull conditions out there, Androphobia for a start. Under your system, the NHS would be expected to provide a place where no man could enter.

What about the many people that have no suh ulceration, are they entitled to free cosmetic surgery?

As I have said (more than once) it needs to be taken on a case by case basis you can not have a one way fits all health service because everyone is different. Sorry if that doesn't fit in with your "x y and z" don't deserve treatment coz i said so model but thats how it is.

I agree with the case by case strategy. Is there a physical reason for surgey other than cosmetic then it's a no. If there is a good reason that the surgery would cure a physical problem then yes to the surgery.

Again, you are showing your true 'I'm alright Jack', right wing colours/

I don't know where you have got this idea, but the NHS does not do cosmetic surgery simply for the sake of it.

I have a friend who many years ago suffered severe burns to face and body in a housefire....He received some very good treatment, via the NHS, and now 15 years on, though not fully recovered, is a massive improvement on what he was.

He admits to being truly thankful for that surgery, and vanity or not, he says his life would have been a lot more miserable but for that help....Yet, in your opinion, he should simply be grateful to be alive.

I only pray you don't require some surgery at some point in your life, and hope you don't get as heartless a consultant as you are a person...

Which one?

Woooo wordtastic,

You had me with "Hello".

8/10. Whilst 71's posts are nearly always entertaining/interesting, I'm guessing his thesaurus (sp? - irony?) is well thumbed of late, some of the big words he uses are mental. Like that episode of Friends where Joey replaces normal words with big words to the extent that it makes no sense.

I know someone who has had a boob job and a full set of nashers done on the NHS after telling them she was depressed.

She wasn't depressed although she is a bit miserable and the new boobs and teeth haven't changed this either.

MOTWYW

I don't know whether you are yanking my chain, so I'll just...

No i'm not. I could do with a bit of lipo from the love handles which is purely cosmetic but the NHS won't pay for that (or perhaps they might if i tell them it is depressing me) so if i want them done i would quite rightly need to pay for the procedure.