Doctor In The House

[steveindenmark]

It's really easy to slide down hill, takes effort to claw your way back.

On the other hand some people are born into families like this and just continue the trend.

I was a police officer in the UK and to start with some of the conditions that people lived shocked me. I grew up in a 2 bedroom cottage with 3 brothers and 2 sisters, plus mum and dad and the place was spotless. Crowded but spotless.

But some houses I visited as a police officer made me gag and yet the families were oblivious to the squalor. They had small children playing amongst the filth and they will probably grow up the same.

If you watch the Jeremy Kyle show, you will see the type of people I mean.

 

[Piemaster]

I can't quite understand why people agree to go on these programmes to have themselves put up to public ridicule.

I remember surfing into one episode of Embarrasing Bodies where the voiceover said, to paraphrase "Mary is a mother of two teenage boys and she has a nasty swelling on her lady parts" Cut to Mary on an examination table, legs akimbo with the camera set up due south, followed by a close up of her sad looking undercarriage whilst a doctor pulled and prodded at it.
Now this was something I didn't want to see whilst eating my chips, but the most disturbing bit was the line "mother of two teenage boys". These boys had to go to school the morning after their mother's exhaust pipe had been on view on national tv, not awkward at all.

Agreed. Why are they happy to strip off in a tent in the middle of a street, in front of cameras, on TV, instead of going to see their GP?
Although with the wait my wife has had recently waiting to see him she might have been quicker wandering up and down the high street and hoping to bump into a film crew.