patient dies in hallway.
By impactEDnurse • Aug 5th, 2007 • Category: piss and vinegar
Nothing more to say except: there but for the grace of god, goes us.
The full story is here. Thanks to ‘Weaze”for the heads-up.
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Should that be ‘there by the grace of the Queensland health minister, goes us’. Why are all the ambulances going to this hospital, the paramedics say they wait for 7 hours, well the hospital should be on some permanent bypass, or the triage nurse should be moving the non urgent walk-ins to doctor’s clinics.
3 strikes to the Queensland health minister though, Dr Patel, Dr Ali (now proven innocent, but the red faces oven this still show), and now this!
Unfortunately, I think sad situations like this will be happening more and more. In my country ER visits keep climbing while ER’s are closing. We can’t handle our regular capacity much less handle any surge.
Oh. My. God. (And you’re right about the “there but for the grace of God…)
At least in QLD the ambos stay with their patients. Who would know if a patient died in the corridor of TCH…
‘Sicko’: a must see film
onlineopinion.com.au
”Australia is driving inexorably along the road towards the American way of life, and death. Michael Moore’s film Sicko is a warning Australians of all political hues should take to heart.
Moore interviews many Americans who simply cannot afford essential medical treatment so will die; who have paid insurance premiums for years and then found they are not covered when it comes to the crunch; mothers who lost children or husbands while the hospital and insurance company quibbled over fees, insurance and definitions of sickness; who paid insurance premiums but when they made a claim were sent a list of literally thousands of conditions excluded from their cover after all; who have lost houses and life savings in order to pay medical bills; former employees of insurance companies who confess their job was to twist definitions of sickness or search for other ways, however miniscule, to avoid paying out when a client is sick and are now tearfully ashamed of what they were forced to do.
The American health service comes out as mostly another way to make billions of dollars, particularly insurance companies, while children and others die for want of care. There were even patients with memory loss and no home to go to who were taken by taxi from hospital to a poor part of town and literally dumped on the pavement.”