Posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2008, at 18:11:15
In reply to Re: Shameful, posted by Deneb on July 1, 2008, at 16:54:12
Public hospitals here can be like that.
An old friend in her 80s was in a terrible provincial hospital, withdrawing (of neccessity, too difficult to organise the drugs, unable to find a doctor in the hospital etc etc) from her pathetic (5mg for 5 years) dose of oxycodone because this is a public hospital, and so, not sleeping and dying, she was in ill humour. One day she was taken for a bath and left there for maybe half an hour. She was a woman from the country so she just yelled until someone came.
The chart at the bottom of the bed had this.....
"Problem: Patient calls out in bath.
Solution: Patient counselled to use the call feature."On anothe roccasion she fell and smashed her knee cap. After lying on a trolley for 8 hours they say, 'We can't get a doctor, you'll have to go home.' Not even a cup of tea.
She wasn't very surprised...she knew very well what this world is like. But when her oxycodone was reestablished after ENORMOUS effort, she was SO angry with them that she told them it had made her sick and to never give her that stuff again. And that is one of the problems. When people are sick they need others to look out for them.
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