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Captain Blake
06-05-2005, 05:55 PM
Right about now, i'm really pissed off with the health system!!

Ok well here's the story:

My brother is skating home from uni, coming down my street (which is a hill, you get alot of speed on my skateboard), some fool has left a few Yellow Pages on the road, 30m from my house, my brother hits one, breaks his arm..... (this was between 10:30 - 10:45)

We get him to hospital at about 11:15pm, the doctors say he will be in the theartre and operated on within the hour, me and my mum go home, my dad stays. We get a call, not enough doctors, can't do operating tonight..... They said they should do it around 8:00am in the morning.....

My mum rings the hospital around 7:30, asks when he will be going into theatre, they say 2 hours...... Mum rings up in 2 hours to check up, they say another 2 hours, this goes on all day.....

They now say he won't be going into theatre until 10:00pm tonight..... He has a really bad fracture, his bones are over-lapping, and imagine how much mental and physical pain he has gone through waiting to go into theatre....

We are contimplating taking him out of R.N.S.H. and putting him in a private hospital!! I can't stand this!! Yes this effects me because I was gonna go out with my brother tonight, and me and my brother are fairly close... And whats even worse, in 7 weeks he is supposed to go on the U.T.S. snow trip, but might not be able to....

Farking hell he is gonna be mighty pissed off....

So what are your stories, and your experiences....

Oh and just got a call from out inside intel, they said there is a long emergency list at R.N.S.H. (probably just blisters and crap) but they will get to him....... If they can't think up any more excuses....

Cheers

dunk
06-05-2005, 06:38 PM
I know how you feel, I've been waiting over four months to have surgery for cancer. Finally going in on Monday....if nothing changes again :mad: . But then again I'm not paying a cent for it. Now if we lived in the US I'd be up for a healthy bill.

Pete J
06-05-2005, 08:04 PM
I know how you feel, I've been waiting over four months to have surgery for cancer. Finally going in on Monday....



Holy Crap dude!!! :eek:
I hope the op goes well and you make a speedy recovery!! :)
I'm sure every Farkiner wishes the same!

ridemotocross
06-05-2005, 08:08 PM
Holy Crap dude!!! :eek:
I hope the op goes well and you make a speedy recovery!! :)
I'm sure every Farkiner wishes the same!

2nd that, good luck with it mate

Ryan
06-05-2005, 08:40 PM
The beauty of our public health system is that you don't have to use it. Why the hell anyone would tolerate waiting that long for surgery is beyond me (assuming you have some kind of basic health insurance)...a private hospital would have had him operated on and home by now.

If it makes you feel any better, he's probably not in that much pain at all. When I broke my elbow, man, did those fuckers give me a lot of morphine. I mean a whole lot of morphine.

I remember lying in bed watching Molly Meldrum win $500,000 on celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while slipping in and out of opiate-delirium and babbling incoherently to my girlfriend. It was ridiculously tripped out and the hideous maw of Eddie MacGuire was the only painful aspect. :cool:

Blas4me
06-05-2005, 08:41 PM
Holy Crap dude!!! :eek:
I hope the op goes well and you make a speedy recovery!! :)
I'm sure every Farkiner wishes the same!

I concur, be well.

dylma
08-05-2005, 03:06 PM
well i think that the funniest thing about the health system is its supported by the taxes on foreign alchohol a cigarettes. medicare is entirely supported by the tax on cigarretes. pretty stupid.

ajay
08-05-2005, 03:16 PM
i dont really think you should complain...

The system is free, and the fact remains, their isnt enough health care staff in this country to operate on everyone as soon as they hurt themselves.

Its alot better then not having that option at all!

Captain Blake
08-05-2005, 04:42 PM
Yeah I shouldn't really complain, but still our family pay their taxes.

He was dosed up on something 10x better than morphine, well only when they had to pull his dislocated wrist back into place.

He is alright now, my dad mentioned his name, which happens to be the same name as the guy who did something big at R.N.S.H.

4 pins and a plate in his arm, ahh well, someone will be cranky for a few weeks....

Cheers

tomass
08-05-2005, 05:02 PM
yer i know what u mean, i broke my leg and wrist on a sunday. because it was sunday they couldnt operate and so i had to be in traction with a broken leg for more that 24 hrs. They said the operation was at 6pm, then 7, then finally 8pm

naz
08-05-2005, 05:11 PM
well from when my mum had breast cancer lately she got top notch bloody medical, marta hospital, great service and such. thanking private health cover for that one.

Yeah I shouldn't really complain, but still our family pay their taxes.

He was dosed up on something 10x better than morphine, well only when they had to pull his dislocated wrist back into place.

He is alright now, my dad mentioned his name, which happens to be the same name as the guy who did something big at R.N.S.H.

4 pins and a plate in his arm, ahh well, someone will be cranky for a few weeks....

Cheers

thats good to hear.

i heard that if u give morphine to patients who have had a heart attack it has like a 48% chance of another (from my very vague memore in paper yest)

morphine is over rated, heroin is where its at hahahaha jks

Captain Blake
08-05-2005, 05:14 PM
well from when my mum had breast cancer lately she got top notch bloody medical, marta hospital, great service and such. thanking private health cover for that one.

My mum works there :D She's a physiotherapist if you need to know.

I always go there if I need stuff, but we couldn't get my brother in, it was that packed.

Marta is great, i'd go in for a x-ray in the morning, expecting to wait and hour or so, straight in as soon as they see my mum :D

Cheers

ajay
08-05-2005, 05:26 PM
Yeah I shouldn't really complain, but still our family pay their taxes.

so do i - like $900 a month :eek: but we pay for the privledge, not the right...


He was dosed up on something 10x better than morphine,

Now he'll be a junkie! you can blame the government for that though :p ;)

k3n!f
08-05-2005, 05:40 PM
You get what you pay for I'm afraid. An average income earning person pays 1.5% of their taxable income towards medicare, but this covers nowhere near the total costs.

Private health insurance is the way to go if you can afford it. I stacked, went to the private hospital, was out 2 hours later with a stickey taped up knee, a cast on my arm and a referral to a specialist.

Good luck to all farkiners that are injured or sick right now, hope yall our out riding again asap =D