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6 HOUR WAITING TIME IN A+E

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thermidorthelobster:
Oh, by the way, the reason the ambulance bay isn't used very much is that most patients come in by helicopter  :lol:

muddydisco:
I think they should scrape NI and go private health. That would get rid of the time wasters.

Boggert:

--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---I'm going to make your day by telling you my A&E experience last week.

Child knocked her head after a small fall and was a bit concussed.  Took her to hospital and pulled up in the ambulance bay.  Went into A&E (this was on a Friday night) and 2 nurses and a doctor saw to her instantly - she was the only patient in the whole department at the time.  She had 3 people attending to her until she was taken for a CT scan half an hour later.  The radiologist checked her results straight away and talked them through with me.  They then put her in the children's ward for the night in a private room with a shower, fed me and my colleague (with the Disco still parked in the ambulance bay, they suggested we left it there), and found us a spare room elsewhere in the hospital.  She was monitored closely all night, fed, watered and discharged the following day.




Sounds great, doesn't it?  That's what you get in an oil-rich country with a small population and financially-savvy government.  This was Norway;  the only hospital in a 3-hour radius and on Saturday morning I walked from one end to the other without bumping into a soul.  There were empty beds everywhere and the staff were almost bored!

:twisted:
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Its not just the oil rich...

A few years ago while on Holiday visiting the wife's family in Czech Republic at Christmas, I got a real nasty eye infection, it was very painful and oozing all over the shop.

Christmas Day the take me to A&E or the equivalent.. I go straight to see an eye surgeon, who checks the eye, cleans it and gives me pain killers and antibiotics.
This was all done in 15 mins. now I was in a panic because I hadn't got insurance total cost for 2 prescriptions and the visit £8.75! :lol:
I had a filling replace out there for £3,  :lol:
And before you ask yes it all up to scratch, clean, quick and professional!

simdeb:
i can't moan at our doctors or the hospital, some people will not go to kingsmill but on the whole i think we've only experienced one ignorant doctor who misdiagnosed my mums broken hand!!

diggerdog36:
Ive got a great way of jumping the queue and getting seen straight away, smash your self up real bad in a parachute accident, ring an ambulance, make the driver throw up with the sight of your legs, go into shock.......well, it worked for me!!!

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