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Question: > I’d likely do it again if it ever happens again, > tho I’d get a neighbour to drive instead next time. >>> Didnt even have to pay for the TV either. >> Lucky you, the damned thing cost me a dollar a day >> back in xmas 1999 and they only had 5 channels. > It was free in the local hospital and in St Vincents in Sydney. > St Vincents is one hell of a hospital, the most recently > built of the large ones, up the hill at Kings Cross with > 5 star hotel views across Sydney. Good to hear you got great treatment. Rod Speed View profile More options Jul 14 2007, 5:08 pm Newsgroups: alt.politics.liberalism, misc.consumers, misc.consumers.frugal-living, alt.rush-limbaugh, soc.culture.usa From: “Rod Speed”

- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Rod Speed Jimington > Rod Speed >> z >>> Shawn Hirn >>>> Daniel T. >>>>> The only thing the US rated high on is responsiveness. >>>>>> As we are often told, people in the US don’t have to wait in >>>>>> line as long…If they can afford the treatment in the first place. >>>>> Actually, even people in the United States who CAN afford the >>>>> best treatment can end up waiting a while for medical care. >>>>> Three weeks ago, I had to be rushed by ambulance to an emergency >>>>> room at a >>>>> major urban hospital for a head injury I sustained when I was >>>>> mugged. I was bleeding profusely. The bandage I was given when I >>>>> got to the ER did not help at all. The wound was minor, but the >>>>> bleeding was worsened because I am on a daily aspirin regimen and >>>>> aspirin slows down blood clotting. I waited four hours to see a >>>>> doctor, then another hour until I was actually treated. Another >>>>> patient in line with me helped me to control my bleeding while we >>>>> both waited for treatment! A woman who was waiting for treatment >>>>> of a stomach pain told me she had been waiting there for eight hours! >>>> ERs have been known as hellholes for years. My last visit, I had >>>> to sit in the waiting room holding a bath towel to my bleeding >>>> head wound for two hours. The punchline is that I was the only one >>>> there. It was 6 pm so I assume the staff were having dinner, >>>> except for the receptionist. I don’t say that sarcastically. They >>>> see people coming in with a knife sticking out of their eyeball, so >>>> what constitutes an emergency requiring them to drop everything >>>> immediately for the average patient might not impress them quite >>>> as much. The last time I took a friend to the ER with unexplained >>>> passing out, we had to wait five hours before getting called; then >>>> immediate admission and IV and “good think you came in when you >>>> did”. We had literally been standing up with the intention of >>>> leaving to see if it would go away by itself overnight when they >>>> called us. >>> I just got instant service, at about 7:30pm, when I showed up with unstable angina. >> So that’s why you were absent for a while. > Yep. They wouldnt even let me go home and collect anything from there, > I had to get one of the neighbours to collect some stuff from the house. >> I’ve been having a bastard of a time with my angina recently too. >> I’m putting the blame on the unusually cold winter, even my doctor’s >> comfortable enough with that excuse, after all neither of us want to >> bother with any fancy ways of dealing with the problem. > In my case the anginine when I showed up at the hospital > made the problem go away instantly and then a blood test > at 3am showed that I had got some heart damage so they > wouldnt even let me get out of bed for a couple of days. That would be a real bastard. At least when i had plumbing hanging out of me i was able to go to the lavatory, or at least not long after i filled a pee bottle when my kidneys started functioning again.

Yeah, lack of a shower was a complete pain in the arse.

Fortunately that was only for a couple of days.

- Hide quoted text – - Show quoted text – >>> Got the same instant service previously when I >>> showed up with what turned out to be gallstones. >>> Both with a decent national health service free hospital, didnt cost me a cent. >> Neither does an ambulance in my state for their own residents. Interstate >> visitors had better be wary of the $700 bill that they’ll incur though. > I actually drove myself to the hospital both times. Not the smartest thing > I ever did the second time, because I assumed it was just the gallstones again. > Tho one of the ambos in the free ambulance trip to the airport > and back from it for the air ambulance to sydney which was also > free said that 3 of the ambos had also driven themselves to the > hospital in the same situation. Mainly because thats quicker than > waiting for an ambulance to show up. Funny that but we used to be subjected to the ambulance imploring us to use them rather than drive ourselves, even though we lived an hour’s trip from the nearest one. The simple logic for anyone is that if they drive themselves then they’re at the hospital in the same time as it takes for an ambulance to reach them. Maybe no big deal for city folk but perhaps life or death for country people.

Yeah, my main stupidity was not getting someone else to drive me.

> I’d likely do it again if it ever happens again, > tho I’d get a neighbour to drive instead next time. >>> Didnt even have to pay for the TV either. >> Lucky you, the damned thing cost me a dollar a day >> back in xmas 1999 and they only had 5 channels. > It was free in the local hospital and in St Vincents in Sydney. > St Vincents is one hell of a hospital, the most recently > built of the large ones, up the hill at Kings Cross with > 5 star hotel views across Sydney. Good to hear you got great treatment.

Yeah, just took a little longer than it might have, I was getting no symptoms at all after the aginine got rid of what I showed up in the hospital for and the ECG was perfect etc. They appeared to do more urgent stuff first.

The ECG of one of the fellas that was in the air ambulance with me was utterly obscene. I meant to check what had happened to him, whether he ended up dead or what.

> I got a stent, interesting operation, you can watch them > work out which artery is blocked and watch them do the > balloon and insert the stent, only a local anaesthetic. Sorry but my health will have to get a lot worse before i let them play with me. Death isn’t that bad an option.

Answer: Yeah, just took a little longer than it might have, I was getting no symptoms at all after the aginine got rid of what I showed up in the hospital for and the ECG was perfect etc. They appeared to do more urgent stuff first.

The ECG of one of the fellas that was in the air ambulance with me was utterly obscene. I meant to check what had happened to him, whether he ended up dead or what. Dunno, I’d do it again the same way.

One of my neighbour mates had a full bypass just the week after I came back. He had had one 20 years ago and was very reluctant to let them do another, but said that things had improved a lot over that time, and he didnt mind the second one.

Hilarous how many had had the same thing as mine, including the taxi driver who brought me home from the airport on the way home, and my GP and another neighbour a bit further away down the street that I have known for decades now.

My next door neighbour had a hip replacement the week after mine too. Yeah, I said to the woman that offered tea and coffee 3 times a day that I only bother with water and beer now. Presumably you can buy a beer on the private side too.

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