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| Thread ID: 112541 | 2010-09-10 19:59:00 | Hospitals - OMG! | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1136237 | 2010-09-10 19:59:00 | Read this: www.nzherald.co.nz Leanna Kairua's daughter Veronica endured two weeks of hell at North Shore Hospital. Veronica, says her mother, went through unnecessary suffering for a common, though potentially lethal, complaint. This is Leanna's account. Although, she thinks it's bad there, Southland is worse. Not that they don't care - the lack of doctors....... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1136238 | 2010-09-10 23:25:00 | Where is Hugh Laurie when you need him?? This is why hospitals scare me. There is a too much incompetence and understaffing going on. Edit: Just remembered I once went to a doc who was googling my symptoms.. Very reassuring. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1136239 | 2010-09-11 00:02:00 | I have horror stories experienced personally for both Christchurch Hospital and Calvary Hospital more than once and with different people I have helped there including myself, it's being going on for years. Also have stories from person who was going to work at ChCh Hospital as a radiographer after finishing training but gave it away after seeing the culture that exists there. Think it got much worse when modern management practices were introduced in the 80's. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1136240 | 2010-09-11 05:39:00 | Wow, that is horrible. I'd be having more than a 'mini-meltdown', I'd be standing in the nurses office and flatly refusing to leave until a doctor examined my daughter. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1136241 | 2010-09-11 05:54:00 | If you do find yourself in a similar position, do check out HDC: http://hdc.org.nz/ | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1136242 | 2010-09-11 06:19:00 | What may have helped would have been to have had medical insurance. Private hospitals may not be perfect, but I have had no worries in the few times I have needed them. We pay taxes for our 'free' medical care and so, theoretically, we should not need medical insurance, but it certainly does make a big difference when you have a problem that you would like rectified as soon as possible. Thankfully there are no waiting lists at private hospitals. What a good idea! |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1136243 | 2010-09-11 06:31:00 | One of the examples I am referring to in which there were multiple incidents of very much less than ideal care was at a private hospital, and insurance was how the person was there. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1136244 | 2010-09-11 07:30:00 | What may have helped would have been to have had medical insurance. Private hospitals may not be perfect, but I have had no worries in the few times I have needed them. We pay taxes for our 'free' medical care and so, theoretically, we should not need medical insurance, but it certainly does make a big difference when you have a problem that you would like rectified as soon as possible. Thankfully there are no waiting lists at private hospitals. What a good idea! Right on! This is why many in the US were anti-healthcare bill. Bad things happen everywhere, at least you have a better change of surviving till you see a doc in a private hospital, or you could go and die in the waiting queue, oh well. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1136245 | 2010-09-11 08:37:00 | Well ,when so much of our money is going into making sure prisoners are comfortable and well entertained and murderers like Weatherston gets free-on-us appeals, this is what we get. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1136246 | 2010-09-11 14:25:00 | Only if the immigrant doctors in this country were allowed to get qualified and stat work! | beeswax34 (63) | ||
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