GP (Family doctors) are supposed to be intelligent right?

So here is a question for you all, answers on the back of a £10 note...

And elderly patient enters your surgery. She is asthmatic and is having real trouble in breathing. Do you?

A) Start treating the asthma attack, giving the correct amount of drug, then when she doesn't improve, call for an ambulance, keeping the patient on oxygen. You then take her vital signs, and observe her closely until the ambulance arrives. You even manage to phone the hospital to refer her to the correct speciality.

Or...

B) You give her the paediatric dose of the medicine (The dose you give to under-twelves). When she doesn't get any better, you call an ambulance and sit her (without oxygen) out in the waiting room where here wheezing can entertain the toddlers playing there. You write a letter to the hospital, but as you haven't written any vital signs on it, you can't have even taken her pulse in then first place.

Warning, if you answer (B), you then might have to put up with a slighty miffed FRU person explaining that you might have just been a bit silly...

There are a scarily large number of GP's who just cannot deal with anyone who might be seriously ill.

Still that's what the L.A.S. are for, and also why we still rush on blue lights and sirens to patients who are being looked after at their GP's.

I have in my possession an ambulance benevolant fund* diary, which is something I'll never use, as I have shiny technical tools for planning my life.

So, I think I'll be giving it away to one lucky reader.

The competition is as follows...

Tell me, via comments or email, an amusing tale of seasonal injury or illness.

Stories may be real or fictional, my decision will be final. Closing date will be next Monday, 12 noon GMT. The winner will receive one (1) diary (worth approx £1) delivered via the cheapest post I can find anywhere in the world. Entry is non-binding, no purchase necessary, etc, etc, etc...

Just a bit of fun.

This is also the first post from my new mobile/pocket pc, so if the formatting is weird, I'll have to change it later.

*The benevolant fund is something we all pay £2 or so into, and it funds good things for sick ambulance people. Well worth the money, and you hope you never need to us it.