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| Thread ID: 140309 | 2015-09-22 00:31:00 | So its OK | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1408723 | 2015-09-23 19:01:00 | People expect too much, what a pointless article. He should be grateful instead of the opposite. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1408724 | 2015-09-23 20:07:00 | Some time ago (years) I had surgery on the veins in one leg. Following the surgery I was placed in a Ward where the fellow in the adjacent bed appeared to be in pretty poor shape if all his tubes and wires were anything to go by. He couldn’t speak because of his tubes but at one stage he started making noises and pushed his emergency button. A light came on above his bed but nobody came so I pressed mine. Still nothing. So out of bed I get and hobble down to the Nurse Station where I found them all gathered around a computer. Both our lights were on in the Station and when I announced that the guy in the next bed was in some sort of trouble, I was told they would be there shortly, they were just watching the end of a Trade Me auction. Well, none of them will die wondering what I thought of them. ;) One nurse even had the gall to rip into me for being out of bed! :rolleyes: I can tell you worse stories than that....lots of them. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1408725 | 2015-09-24 00:45:00 | The Hospital isn’t in a position to be worried about his family or friends and the reasons for their non-availability. EXACTLY, it is not up the hospital to ensure his family can be bothered to come and get him. It's not the hospital's duty to arrange free transport home. I'm sure there's a few taxi drivers who would've happily taken the fare to take him home. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1408726 | 2015-09-24 02:00:00 | EXACTLY, it is not up the hospital to ensure his family can be bothered to come and get him. It's not the hospital's duty to arrange free transport home. I'm sure there's a few taxi drivers who would've happily taken the fare to take him home. The care of the Patient is the responsibility of the hospital and that includes his discharge. Clearly, in the end, someone recognised the gravity of the situation and acted appropriately saving a possible catastrophe. Check THIS (www.stuff.co.nz) out as a comparison. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1408727 | 2015-09-24 02:22:00 | EXACTLY, it is not up the hospital to ensure his family can be bothered to come and get him. It's not the hospital's duty to arrange free transport home. I'm sure there's a few taxi drivers who would've happily taken the fare to take him home. I tried to get a Taxi home from NS Hospital and the Taxi driver would not transport me unless I had a companion, thought that I might die on him! |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1408728 | 2015-09-24 02:46:00 | The care of the Patient is the responsibility of the hospital and that includes his discharge. Clearly, in the end, someone recognised the gravity of the situation and acted appropriately saving a possible catastrophe. Check THIS (www.stuff.co.nz) out as a comparison. There is NO comparison between the two stories! :angry:angry Also, once he's discharged, he's no longer a patient, therefore he is no longer under their duty of care. No one saved a 'potential catastrophe' here, almost certainly some poor bugger went out of their way to satisfy him/shut him up. How'd you feel if someone needed to be transported to hospital via the air ambulance, but couldn't, because it was in use acting as a taxi service for someone? There was no 'gravity of the situation', just an elderly man who'd been discharged blaming the hospital for him not being able to sort out his own transport. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1408729 | 2015-09-24 05:29:00 | EXACTLY, it is not up the hospital to ensure his family can be bothered to come and get him. It's not the hospital's duty to arrange free transport home. I'm sure there's a few taxi drivers who would've happily taken the fare to take him home. He lived in another city , not a simple bus or taxi ride home He had a heart condition , stress of all this would only make that worse so you would just kick him out the door in his pajamas then ? remember that when/if you complain how your family members are delt with by govt departments no compassion |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1408730 | 2015-09-24 07:38:00 | Do we have the complete story to make the judgements? Reminds of when they thought he was a horse thief, so lets hang him, the fact that he wasn't didn't come into it. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1408731 | 2015-09-24 09:03:00 | Do we have the complete story to make the judgements? Reminds of when they thought he was a horse thief, so lets hang him, the fact that he wasn't didn't come into it. You have a point Cic but having reviewed the report a number of times I have reached the conclusion that: 1: It’s an unlikely story to be fabricated by a sick old fellow. 2: Nobody of authority in the Wellington Hospital Board has challenged it? It’s a big call for the Wellington Hospital Board to leave the claims unchallenged! ;) As I’ve said previously, someone with a few more clues than some on here sorted it in the end so in essence we have a happy ending Regardless, I wish the old fellow all the best and hope the knockers find themselves in his position some time. :thumbs: What goes around comes around. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1408732 | 2015-09-24 09:27:00 | I am waiting for someone to blame John Key Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
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