N H S a cock up. - Page 2

WillowTheWhisp · 04-09-2005, 09:58

That is awful that Mick should have to wait another 6 months for the angiogramme. He should have been put at the top of the list as it was already due. There's no excuse for bad organisation.

I do feel for the hardworking and overworked medical staff however. I know I for one wouldn't function at 100% if I worked the hours some junior doctors do. It's inhuman and total insanity to think that we trust our health and our lives to people who are quite simply too tired to function. I remember years ago before we had computers in the bank, at the financial year end we had to work sometimes until 11pm calculating the interest on everyone's account and doing a complete balance of the whole of the accounts before and then after interest. This could take days although in theory we were allowed to close for one day only in order to do this. We would actually start to "pencil in" the calculations days in advance on those accounts where activity was less likely (about 75% of them). By the end of a week of 14-16 hour days (and that included being able to sleep 6-8 hours at night) most of us couldn't think straight when something didn't add up right and couldn't work out why.

Being tired is similar to being drunk in that reaction times and cognitive ability are impaired. Perhaps there should be tests for tiredness and people who do not pass them should be premitted a few hours kip before being expected to carry on? This is why drivers are limited to the number of hours they do at one stretch. But of course the NHS would then cease to function at all because they just don't have the staff to fill in for those times do they?

harwood red · 04-09-2005, 14:30

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Originally Posted by Neil

On the plus side my sister was diagnosed with suspected meningitis by her local GP who came out to our house, she was 21 at the time. He gave her an antibiotic injection he had with him and sent her to BRI where she was in intensive care while she recovered. She was told at the hospital that GP saved her life becasue he had the antibiotic with him and she would probably not survived without it. The antibiotic had a shelf life of about 6 months and he had been throwing unused ones away for 20 years. He carried it just incase he ever needed it. After 20 years he finally used one, thankfully.

Now that doctor treated his work as a true vocation!!!

cashman · 04-09-2005, 15:10

theres obviously more PLUSSES than minuses in the N.H.S. more first rate staff,than bad,but my point is simple- with health and welfare the bad and poor is unacceptable. not to mention life threatening in some instances.

cashman · 10-09-2005, 00:57

must resurect this - saw specialist on august 30th- went for pre-op assesment on tuesday and was operated on friday 9th sept, staff etc were brill and was home friday evening,i think thats marvellous ! just a pity that mick whose is far more seroius than mine has all this messing,

SPUGGIE J · 10-09-2005, 14:36

Some times you are lucky and there is a pace and others its like a rounderbout yo cannot leave. Then again here if I loose an argument with a car they dont take me to the nearest hospital as they are centralising services at different hospitals so RTA's end up in my case 12 miles away when the closest is 3. Will never understand it.

jimmi5bellies · 10-09-2005, 15:09

My last operation i had i was wheeled into theatre from the TV room as they still didnt have a bed for me. I was not given a pre-op assesment etc and i had a doc hitting his instrement on my forehead 20 minutes after getting back on the ward. He asked me if i could feel the instruments on my head .... i told him he would feel my hand if he carried on and didnt come back later when the effects of the anasetic wore off.

He was trying to see if my operation on my ear had worked and to see if i could hear any vibrations in my ear. 3 months later and im still deaf !