GPs can lick my balls

[James Deuce]

Bullshit. That is probably some ED doctor trying to pass the can. People have walked into Middlemore ED for coughs and sore throats. Stupid, but it is true. I personally as a kid was taken straight to Middlemore ED for severe dehydration and a temperature of over 40deg without going to a GP or after hours A&E first. If you believe it to be an emergency, go the the ED. The hospitals just encourage people to go to their primary health professional first because much of what ED doctors deal with should and could be handled with through primary health care and at a fraction of the cost to the tax payer.

No, it isn't. Hutt ED will turn people away to After Hours with kids who have a temp of 40 and severe asthma and After Hours simply don't have the gear to deal with that.

I have vastly more experience of the hospital and GP systems than most people do. The only way to keep people safe is to be an arsehole. 3 weeks ago I rang Hutt ED and said I was bringing my son in (a well documented and very severe asthmatic with open admission) as his resp rate was 120, he was tachycardic and had a temp of 39.4. This had come on between getting home from school and dinner time. They told us we had to present to our GP first, so I rang them and got told I could have an appointment in two days.

I rang the hospital, spoke to the kid's ward found out which paediatrician was on and then paged them to meet us in ED. My son was in ICU within 15 minutes of us getting there. It's not bullshit. I have had to deal with this procedural shit in the face of some horrendous episodes including respiratory arrests where it has been bloody difficult to get help including timely responses from any medical professional.

[Paul in NZ]

You know what - sometimes the world reflects back at you the images you project.

I go to the doctor a LOT. I totally rely on it to keep me alive (and thats just one of my little health issues) and I'm not kidding. On a good year I see my Dr maybe 6 times - double that on a bad one. I've spent more time in waiting rooms than most people (except Jim) and even the receptionists know me. We are very fortunate to have a fabulous group of doctors that genuinely care AND have repeatedly gone waay beyond the call of duty to help us. They have come in early and stayed late or squeezed us in during times of genuine need. They have searched out solutions to difficult situations and worried more about me than I have about myself.

At times they have gone out of their way to save ME money and refused to charge for some services.

In return I have taken time to follow instructions, been polite and respectful and educated myself proactively about things. I have always been listened to and taken seriously.

I cannot speak more highly of these people.

Yes - we have had issues at ED and with practise staff on occasion but these problems are driven by stupid policy decisions.

[Big Dave]

Damn your optimistic sensibilism!

I lot of the reason I ride motorcycles is so I don't have to queue up.
I'd rather cut to the front with a wet arse than be a dry Baaaaaaaarbarrraaaa in a line of cars.

Is it a 'trait' do you think?

Charm the young lady (doesn't matter how old or crusty a Matron she might be) at the counter with your leather clad masculinity. (Lessons from $50 per hour).

Otherwise you just ring them you schmuck. A repost is in order:

[Big Dave]

Medical people are medical people, the good ones hire (or train as) managers as well.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I have vastly more experience of the hospital and GP systems than most people do. The only way to keep people safe is to be an arsehole. .

Being a racer of bikes for over 30 years, I too have vast experience of the health system. I've have never had to, and would never behave like an arsehole to the very people that are trying to help me. It's often the arseholes that get the worst service...because they deserve it.

You know what - sometimes the world reflects back at you the images you project.


At times they have gone out of their way to save ME money and refused to charge for some services.

In return I have taken time to follow instructions, been polite and respectful and educated myself proactively about things. I have always been listened to and taken seriously.

I cannot speak more highly of these people.

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A true gentleman regardless of what's thrown at you.

[joan of arc]

My doctors waiting room has great magazines and I don't go often so even if old they are new reading for me, So don't mind some down time catching up with the celebs. But the problem with waiting rooms is that they are filled with sick people!! They cough, they snivel, they touch the magazines that I want to read.. Goddamit I run the risk of catching something every time I visit. And when the docs are running late the place fills with ailments and I have to sit next to one of these incipient viral donors.
Wouldn't it make sense to reduce sick people congregating in the same area??? Must be a means to automatically text prospective patients with a message like "the Dr is running late, your appt is now 1:30"

[Elysium]

Anyway, how's your blood presure?

[James Deuce]

Being a racer of bikes for over 30 years, I too have vast experience of the health system. I've have never had to, and would never behave like an arsehole to the very people that are trying to help me. It's often the arseholes that get the worst service...because they deserve it.

I'm not an arsehole until I have to be. If one of my kids is in trouble I will do anything in my power to sort the problem. I don't care who I tread on. I shouldn't have to explain that and I also documented my attempts to use the system correctly to no avail, but you obviously didn't bother to read that bit. In that bit you'll note that the paediatrician reacted correctly and was quite happy for me to contact her. She knows our history and knows how dire it gets. ED should not have turned a patient away who has open admission. They were wrong.

If I wanted to be a proper arsehole I would've followed up with the Health and Disability Commission. It's pointless though because you then have to deal with the people you've just dropped in the shit in the future.

[jazfender]

Why are these fuckwits always late.

Fuck I dunno, could be they're doing something that actually contributes to society in a major way?

If you're gonna shit on people that, in their day-to-day life, help more fuckwits and people that the rest of us don't give another thought about, you better be bringing something pretty big to the table.

Oh no, my doctor's late, there goes that precious time waiting for a lobotomy when I could be updating KB with a senseless thread.

[Big Dave]

A true gentleman regardless of what's thrown at you.

Tell him new Triumphs are better than the old ones.

[Big Dave]

And anyway - lick your balls, no, but they will happily insert a.....never mind....

[Woodman]

If they are late every single time then why not just turn up later?

Its not rocket science.

[ynot slow]

Simple thing is if you know he's always late,a call to the surgery will let you know if the consult is on time.

I am pretty tolerant at hospitals,(different to the gp visit for sure)my surgery was supposed to take approx 3hours,ended up 7 or so,that was no fault of next patient,but docs can't just say hs time is up for now,next patient please.

[Scouse]

My doctor is fucking awsome paticularly one September day in 2008, I ambled in I could hardly breath and could only speak one word at a time as I had to gasp for a short breath of air in between each word, he had me XRayed immediatly at his surgery, then it was straight onto an I.V of some antibiotic, he had me come in the next day, by wich time I had made a considerable recovery for the same antibiotic treatment. It realy is suprising how quickly Pnemonia creeps up on you frighting realy but I belive that Doctor John Allen saved my life on that day.

[Scouse]

I am "lucky" enough to be a patient of a PHO.

PHO is that like poor house option?