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Thread ID: 150952	2022-10-20 01:36:00	A&E Medical centre rant	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

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1488956	2022-10-20 01:36:00	Had to take mum down. Not hospital, wouldn't do that..just the after hrs place. As they can xray and do casts or splint braces.... Bit shocking, $42 for ACC non CSC, and $110 for non ACC public holiday/weekend charges. Geez. There were some people there because they don't have a GP at all. Anyway: She fell on the concrete and now there is a lump mid forearm and extensive bruising. I was there with Graham too, he'd fallen on the concrete. I was telling the triage nurse, as my mum was saying oh it's just a bump......yeah like you have bumps sticking up out of our arm normally don't you. I said to nurse, they took husbands BP, 130/60 and said oh lovely and I was alarmed and said no, that's high for him. They looked at me funny, no it's not high, I said he is always 50...not 60, for a few years...it's high suddenly. I got ignored. 2 weeks later he was dead. Oh she says, he died of what? Pneumonia I said. He didn't have a fever, didn't have chest pain...but a sudden jump for no reason at all in BP? Anyway we sat there for 3.5 hrs, as others who turned up went ahead...I told her, they triaged you, you bottom of list. No food since 5:30am...I was getting worried as she does take Lantus...so they moved us to this room and again we waited. Offered her a water...hmm, no carbs or sugar in water.... Still nothing as they then had an ambulance turn up for some patient....but all I wanted really was an arm splint brace, I had a look in room and all small, kids, or XL. She decided to go so I had a rummage at home in my brothers stuff and one of his braces fits nicely. GP nurse can't even see her till 28th. So that will do.	piroska (17583)
1488957	2022-10-20 07:01:00	Sheesh, hope they gave you your money back. My only personal experience with after hours White Cross was for what seemed like appendicitis. Sudden pain over lower right of torso, worse with rebound (removal of pressure over the site) which is also a feature of appendix. Anyway, spent what seemed like forever waiting, expelled an uncharacteristic volume of wind during all the waiting, and presto - pain gone by the time they finally examined me.:blush: Still got my appendix.	Paul.Cov (425)
1488958	2022-10-20 09:04:00	Come on, be fair . It's their version of triage, if you croak in the waiting room before the 11th hour they have saved all that skilled diagnostician time, plus they saved wasting medication on someone who's about to expire . If you snuff it while waiting, but after paying the fee, don't expect a refund . They've cared for your patient for the whole of life from the moment of paying, so expect another bill for lifelong Hospice care . If you don't consider the care is fabulous value, the CEO and her/his team of skilled accountants will be quite happy to provide you with an independent second opinion from their company legal team . They not only pop you straight into a waiting room; they give you all the waiting you would ever need . Free ! :tui:	R2x1 (4628)
1488959	2022-10-20 20:47:00	Come on, be fair. It's their version of triage,! [/B] : I know it is. I told her that...she made the mistake of saying oh it's just a bump, which they took to mean she bumped it. Rather than a thing sticking up out of arm. Sigh....it really messes her up though, sitting about for hours in places like this. She was very confused and out of it when we got back, causes all sorts of drama. Bothered me more about husband though. Didn't get it last time, and this one still didn't despite me saying high for him, as it was always 50... It's in their head. Its a flow chart process. and 130/60 = perfect. Not now why has it jumped 10 after being 50 for so long?	piroska (17583)
1488960	2022-10-20 22:36:00	The more dealings I have with medical staff; Doctors, nurses, Pharmacy staff, qualified chemists, the less I feel like repeating the experience. I went to my new doctor yesterday to get my usual group of prescription medicines, conversation led to discussion on the death of my father, I told the doctor it was due to him being mistakenly given a dangerous drug by a young doctor from the same surgery we were in, he said what was the drug and the answer went out of my mind, a bit later I talked to three chemists in the pharmacy and they also could not name a drug which had been banned about 15 years ago for killing people. Hours after I got home I remembered it, VIOXX, phoned back to the surgery and left and message for the doctor and the pharmacy staff. Vioxx: www.fda.gov And much more, banned in fact. How could my doctor and pharmacy staff not know the drug and it's dangers?	zqwerty (97)
1488961	2022-10-21 03:29:00	The more dealings I have with medical staff; Doctors, nurses, Pharmacy staff, qualified chemists, the less I feel like repeating the experience. death of my father Vioxx: How could my doctor and pharmacy staff not know the drug and it's dangers? Because they don't look. To be fair they are rushed. Both of them, flat out churning through the pills, the "exams", and it's all pills. I learned long ago, do your own research. My mum had pills, too many. Anyway got given a new one not long ago, that was fine, it helps. But, she started getting postural hypotension. Doc was just oh it happens. I looked up her meds. One was a antidepressant given for nerve pain, it doesn't work anyway. That in combination with the new pill stated it aggravates this condition. So we dumped it. End of issues. An antidepressant for nerve pain anyway? I once told my doc off for suggesting a very vicious pill for husband. Oh they all have side effects she said. Well yes, but we prefer the ones with the minimal I said. The least nasty rather than just whatever is the current pharmac fav or most commonly prescribed. And sometimes, also with husband, it may be OK for most people but have very bad effects on some. 5 different docs ignored his ever worsening blood test results until finally I figured it out. Change of pill, end of problems. Some docs do still try to treat the patient but many now have no idea what that even means, it's not the way they are trained and it's all about following a process.	piroska (17583)
1488962	2022-10-21 05:27:00	My estimation of the root problem is that doctors believe the medical corporations producing the treatments can be relied upon to be ethical when in fact they can not. Of course over riding it all is the fact that human being are complicated things and the treatments of sick people is fraught with problems.	zqwerty (97)
1488963	2022-10-22 08:28:00	My GP over here charged me $50 for ACC follow up.	bk T (215)
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