Yes - she is - I have to agree with you about Sparks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
With my wrist fracture, they shot me up with a lot of pain meds, splinted it really good, and sent me home, to come back in the a.m. for surgery.
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Yes - she is - I have to agree with you about Sparks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
With my wrist fracture, they shot me up with a lot of pain meds, splinted it really good, and sent me home, to come back in the a.m. for surgery.
Forgive me for being so thick, but I just don't get that. People here don't go to the doctor for every sniffle, sneeze and bruise, so why would they do that anywhere else?Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
Does the Canadian system really make no provision for out-of-hours consultation? The British system does.
Thank you both :o
Yeah I've been to the ER more times then I would like to remember lol.
At least the time I went when I waited 12 hours (6 were in the waiting room and other 6 were in a bed at least) they had a tv with a vcr and lots of disney movies so I watched Mary Poppins and two others lol.
When the doctor finally came in he made me lay down, looked at my throat, tapped on my stomach and said ... I think you have mono. drew some blood and sent me home. so the actual exam was less than 5 minutes lol and I was TICKED to find out it WAS mono and I basically had to suffer through it but at least he gave me some good anti inflammatories to help my throat just too bad I had to crush them up because my throat was so sore and swollen that I couldn't swallow them.
Mono is something I wouldn't wish on ANYONE.
The time I broke my leg... I don't really remember anything about that trip other than I did NOT want to go to the hospital because I was scared (I was 8) so I think I blocked o ut that whole experience in my mind lol.
I was 7 when I had Mono. It used to be called the Kissing Disease, but I wasn't that type at 7 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
I don't know WHY they do that... but they do. I've seen people taking their kids to the walk in clinic because they were sick but the kid spent the entire time running around the office. I've also known people who have skipped out of work and then gone to the doctors to try to get a note SAYING they were sick when they weren't and to get a note you have to see the doctor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties
Oh yeah.. it really does happen. People go in for everything and anything and then get mad when someone who is REALLY sick gets taken in before them.
no there is no after hours consultation. if you are sick or injured after doctors hours... you go to the hospital... especially if you don't have a family physician.
I remember the doctor I had for a while (she was the only one taking patients in ALL of london and there was a reason she had openings...because she was the worst doctor I have ever encountered) she was closed on Mondays, open tuesdays, half day wednesday, full day thrusday and closed on Friday, saturday Sunday. because she had SO few in office hours it could take two WEEKS to get in to see her. One time I was going to have my yearly woman exam done and apparently they are only allowed to do a certain amount of PAP's in a month (don't get that but that's what I was told) so I couldn't get an appt with her for THAT particular thing for THREE months. so yeah... no after hours visits at ALL
HAHA yeah I was 16 I think when I had it... but if it's the kissing disease I would have had to have someone to kiss :OQuote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I just wanted to share this since we were talking about long wait times at the ER vs just going to your family doctor.
I was just talking to a friend of mine back home and she's had a "boo boo" for a bit now and had an appt with her family doctor ... and waited two hours.
Over worked, understaffed.
Woah that is not on, i would never expect to wait more than 15mins if i had made an appointment with my doctor, unless there was an emergency or something, i would be changing my doctor for sure.
The HMO I worked for had a policy that a physician was scheduled 15-20 minutes PER PATIENT.Quote:
Originally Posted by carole
Just enough time to read the nurse's notes and have him say "hmm" and "exactly where does it hurt..";)
Henry Phord made it work assembling cars....:eek::o
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Originally Posted by carole
But she can't because there are no doctors taking on new patients so you kinda gotta keep what you got even if it's not ideal.
but yeah two hours is a long time to wait when you've made an appt. I know i've waited 45 mintues here one time with Hannah's back up doc but that's because he is VERY thorough :)
Does anyone who lives out of the US want to trade their healthcare system for ours??? ANYONE???
Working for two Dr's I know that sometimes we do get behind and people have to wait up to an hour.
1) Emergency. Eye Dr's get a ton of these, metal in the eye from factory workers, infection, something poked in eye, pencil, tree branch, fall on a fork or people in car accident, fallen down steps, punched in the face, glass in eye, animal ripped eye the list goes on and on. The ED sends them to us, they won't cut the metal out of the eye, our Dr does.
2) People arrive late, get lost, etc.
3) We work with a lot of elderly. They can not hear, can not see, don't understand the directions (they do drive to the app however). Explaining the surgery to them 2 then 3 then 4 times same questions over and over. What should have taken 10 minutes takes 27. They come in with walkers, take forever to refract or even to understand the directions on their drops.
We don't rush them. We understand that for some of these people we are the only ones they talk to all week maybe all month, they bring in pictures of their pets, grandchildren, they have no one, no one to even drive to the hospital for surgery. We have to plead with their family or neighbors to help. The hospital will not release them after surgery to a taxi and of course they cannnot drive. We are patient and kind and treat them with respect and it takes time. These are our WW11 veterans these are people who worked all their lives and now need surgery need help and we don't rush them. So yes you might have to wait but when you do see the Dr (who was voted one of the best in the country) he really listens to you, calms your fears, answers your questions and you are not rushed or made to feel like a number, so sit down, take a magazine and kindly wait your turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by carole
I hear what you are saying Marigold, i too have worked in the health system, a private surgical hospital, and i sure know that some things are beyond control, and stuff just happens, however i have never had to wait longer than 15 mins to see a doctor if i have made an appointment, if you just walk casually in to the drop in doctor or ER you can expect 1 to 2 hour waits, and at the hospital up to six hours wait, still it is far too long, but yep stuff does happen,
In answer to your question , no sorry i would not swap my health system for your's. Thanks anyway lol.:)
I am with Carole, I wouldn't wait more than 15 minutes for a doctor. Heck, the whole appointment isn't much longer than 10 minutes, LOL!
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they won't cut the metal out of the eye
But did reading this make anyone else's eyes water LOL
*shudder*
Regarding waiting for a dr. appt, I call ahead and ask how they're running, if they're behind or on time. If they say 'behind', I ask how far and if the answer is, say, 15 minutes, then I tell them that I'll be 15 minutes late. I will not sit in a dr's office and wait. I realize there are emergencies but aside from that, there's no reason to leave us sitting there. I used to do the same thing w/my old vet, too, but this one is on the ball and I've never had to wait. I started this practice when a dr. kept me waiting for a ridiculously long time only to find out that two other people in the lobby had the same appt. time. I sent him a bill for my time. He didn't pay it, of course, but he got the point. I didn't go back to him anyhow, though, but I felt good after sending that bill.
Good for you Mary,way to go girl.:):D
I had a small lump removed ten days ago and it was sent for biopsy. This morning I received an email from my doctor with the results (nothing scary). he had emailed it at 10:15pm Sunday night! Now there's a dedicated doctor.
Sending you my best wishes Louie and Me. :) Hope everything is OK.
My father in law is in hospital just now and we have had lots of communication during the week and over the weekend letting us know what is going on. He cannot speak highly enough of the care he is receiving.
I met my GF at the HMO we both worked at.
As I type this the phone rang and a computer voice is telling me that there is an important message for some National Elderly health plan..I swear to god.
We lived together for a while but, she never used my parent's home address for any kind of a mail drop.
She passed away in March of '02, while under their care.
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I went out to check the mail today and there was a letter, sent in her name, but with my parent's address on it.
They wanted to know if she would like health coverage from the company. I cannot even think of how the got her name and linked it to this address.
LOLOLOLOL, it's a computer generated letter, so now that the hospitals have gone high tech, nothing is sacred.
I have railed before about how the computer systems are just another setback for patient care and record keeping.
These morons cannot even figure out people are dead and they want health care reform done on their terms.
I am not beyond words at the moment, I just can't use them.
What a bunch morons, we are doomed.:confused::o:rolleyes:
Sorry you had to go through that Richard, that kind of stuff is unspeakable. A good friend of mine lost her husband 2 years ago and got a wedding invitation for their grandson's wedding, the bride to be's family sent the invitation to her and her husband...what idiots.
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Originally Posted by caseysmom
Check this out.
I swear this is true,
My dad and GF dies w/in 6 months of each other.
In the same batch of mail?
I got a letter and on the lower left hand corner of the envelope?
FREE Pre-paid Cremation!
Detail inside.
If it's prepaid, it should be free?:eek::rolleyes:
Here's one to marinate on?
I called my sis and she was upset.
She went to the doctor's office and while she was talking to him she found out that there was a mix up with her medical records.
She has three different chart jackets-all three have to do with her treatment and two have info that together, would have kept the two doctors who are treating her from giving her two types of treatment that contraindicate each other...
Meaning?
Had she not investigated/or spoke to her primary physician-the two treatments together may have killer her.
Lovely.
I worked in a records room for years and that was a HUGE bug up my arse.
Don't take for granted that a physician/surgeon/hospital/HMO knows that you....
Got married.
Hyphenated your name.
Changed your name.
Got divorced
or have entered a witness protection program.
YOU are half of your 'medical team' and if you don't take care of YOUR end of the job?
I had taken the calls of STUPID PATIENTS that have been wed, changed their names, dropped their coverage under their old name, then gone on the spouse's coverage with their new names....All the while accusing me/hospital of losing their records.:rolleyes:
morons.
What about Medicare? Somebody seems to have forgotten the people on Medicare, meaning the people in Washington. They are not giving raises for the next two years, and medicine is sky high! My God, we are the poor, but I haven't even heard him talk about the poor, just the middle class, and the rich.(Obama, that is). Maybe I have missed that speech, if I have, sorry.
Willie
Wait a minute.
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Danny Williams going to U.S. for heart surgery
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N.L. Premier Danny Williams is scheduled to have surgery this week. (CBC)
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States.
CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 60, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week.
The premier's office provided few details, beyond confirming that he would have heart surgery and saying that it was not necessarily a routine procedure.
Deputy Premier Kathy Dunderdale is scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday morning.
She's expected to provide more details about Williams's condition, as well as how the provincial government will function during his absence.
CBC reporter David Cochrane said Williams appeared to be in good health recently. He described the premier as "fairly active," playing pick-up hockey at least once a week when work permits.
Hi, blue - haven't seen you for a bit!
If Danny Williams needs a non-routine heart procedure, chances are the wait lists are too long in Newfoundland.
It has happened here in Alberta that the provincial health system has paid for a critical procedure to be done out-of-province, and also in the USA.
One's doctor has to apply, of course - you can't just jump the border and check in to the hospital.
But yeah, it does happen. Hopefully there will be more details in the days to come.
If you can pay for it - you can go to where the treatment is. I did that with my sleep test.
I havent gone anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catty1
Sure you can, you said so yourself. :DQuote:
you can't just jump the border and check in to the hospital.
I need to get one of those sleep tests done myself.Quote:
If you can pay for it - you can go to where the treatment is. I did that with my sleep test.
Hey,
We just killed one of our state reps with a bad surgery.
I would have thought they killed him by by hemorrhaging.
Nope, They nicked his bowel.
Truly tragic....
I'm betting on a resident surgeon to be involved.:(
Can they go that surgeon for medical negligence ????Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Sometimes it's just so hard to prove, and when it does happen the medico's close ranks. That's what happens here.
I attended a funeral of one of my veteran welfare clients on Friday, we all know here what happened to him, he was wrongly diagnosed a couple of years ago by one of our doctors here, by the time he was properly diagnosed, the cancer had spread too far, and he was gone.
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Originally Posted by wombat2u2004
It depends.
If you join a Health Maintenance Orgranization, somemtimes you sign away your right to sue. All claims are handled by an ombudsman, who is supposed to be impartial. In your dreams.
About 6 months before I was fired from my job, a 35-40 year old man had his hepatic artery nicked and bled to death on the table, A simple gall bladder surgery, done by a resident, gone wrong.
Another thing that people do not realize is that some hosptial have 'incident reports' that are not part of a medical record, those are filled out and submitted to a Quality Assurance office/group and they bury those beause of the possible liabilites that may arise should the 'real story' get out.:eek:
Ombudsman Office is the same here, they are toothless tigers.
As they say mate, doctors mistakes are buried.
Here's a HUGE problem with the companies that make implant/med devices.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36158151...new_york_times
The ortho surgeon mentions the DePuy and Zimmer hips.
Those hips have been failing since 2006. There was a rush of people having implants redone because of defects in the joints.
Also?
In the summer of '06 there was a rush of defibrillator surgeries because the mfg. recalled scads of them.
The hospital had to set up special rooms where the surgeons/cardiologists did nothing but replacement surgeries. The whole OR was sent into a panic and the reps from the company had to come in with replacement defibs and work all day to help change them out.
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As the population ages, the use of artificial hips and knees is growing fast, providing a lucrative market for device manufacturers. Sales of artificial hips and knees in this country reached an estimated $6.7 billion last year, and the devices have one of the highest profit margins of any medical product. An artificial joint can cost $3,000 to $15,000.
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It is impossible to know how many artificial hips and knees fail early because of design or manufacturing problems, because the United States, unlike some other countries, has no database to track such procedures. Also, implant companies and doctors say that such devices primarily fail because of issues unrelated to the product.
LOL, this has got to be the biggest lie on the planet.
Implants come with bar coded labels that are supposed to be attached to the operating room record and surgery procedure records. The are also serial numbered and the reps that sell them do keep track of lot and serial numbers.
Since most operating rooms track surgeries by computer? They just have to pull all hip and knee surgeries, then pull out the cases when a patient name is repeated.
And to top that off? Sugeries that are redone are coded as a "Revision" which means that it was done once and redone a second time.
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This is one part of the Health Care Reform that should have been addresed BEFORE anything was voted on.
But, common sense isn't running rampant anywhere near the seat of power for the U.S. gov't.
Morons.
http://www.aolnews.com/politics/arti...ote%2F19423395
Susan Lydick, 51, is not one of them. She approached Connolly after the Rotary speech.
"I just have to thank you for your vote. It's going to make a big difference in my life," said Lydick, a Fairfax psychologist. Both of her daughters have mental health problems, and one of her biggest worries is how they will get health insurance on their own. Under the new law, insurance companies can't deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.
How do you think her kids got mental? Ya think?;)
They were dropped on their heads at birth ???? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD