Jan 2019. I spent 12hrs on a trolley in an A&E department in a large Dublin hospital. Bursting at the seems with elderly people. I had a 5 min chat with doctor & told nothing they could do. Went private sorted in 1 wk. Where is the explainer for that year?
— leannemac (@leannewhelan8) November 16, 2021
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The health service has been in crisis every winter for the past decade at least
It really shows you how much people’s thoughts are dictated by the media – print media say that hospitals are only *now* in crisis and people believe it.- but this is untrue. Its business as usual for a health service not fit for purpose for a long long time.
I find it quite shocking that people would be that uninformed on the state of the health service, surely most are aware it’s a shambles but are willfully ignorant as they are now so committed to the mainstream media narrative.
Most people had been totally disengaged from news and politics and the overall state of the nation.
Covid and the fear factor got to a lot of these people for the first time, hence media revenues way back up. These are the uninformed voters who are now being targeted with constant doom mongering poo on the airwaves.
Most people don’t really know what a shambles our health service is until they’ve had to engage with it, so most are unaware. This year, our health service comes looking for us instead, as a means of disguising its own inadequacies, and instead of highlighting how desperate a move that is, the media just roll over and complies. And why wouldn’t they? – media have had 20 months of banging the Covid measures drum. Can’t question it now, or risk exposing themselves too as having been wrong all along. Trust in public healthcare and mainstream media will be in the gutter after all this, when they penny finally drops widely.
Exactly. Elderly people
Nobody said they are “only now” in crisis except for you.
Rikki don’t lose that number, you don’t want to call nobody else
So you were able to afford private care, but still went to A&E taking up space for a really sick person.
That’s a silly comment, Tom. If your bus fails to show & you have to get a taxi, should you not have been burdening the public transport system in the first place?
If I could afford a taxi I wouldn’t be waiting around for a bus.
Perspective..
I wonder how many people who demand to know other people’s private medical information have also made similar enquires as to whom has taken the flu vaccine? Unless it miraculously disappears again, is just as important after all.
And for those who are so very pro vaccination- how many have taken the flu vaccine? And if you have, do you know which one you got?
Who’s asking for anyone’s medical information other than you.
Any time anyone has to use the passport, they explicitly share their private health information with the person that requests it.
So you have one then.
The real crime is that we pay for a world class public health system and we end up with c*p.
If we paid sweet fa in tax for health and got the same, then it wouldn’t be great, but you get what you pay for (a la US).
We pay one-third more than the average across 35 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and what do we get in return?
A system so broken that we still need private health insurance to receive any decent standard of care.
Where is the money going?
Yeah a wonderful country when you have money to pay health insurance, but it’s worse than third world when you haven’t, especially as you get on in life, they don’t want to know you.
I arrived an hour early for an appointment for a test, a while back. I was perfectly content to sit in the cafe for the duration but the staff managed to squeeze me in after twenty minutes, forty minutes before I was supposed to be seen.
This was all very well but made it clear that they were not operating very efficiently. I should’ve been made wait because there should’ve been no possible way they could just shoehorn an extra test in.
Despite all the managers, our health service always appears not to be managed very efficiently. In general, it appears to be run for the benefit of those working in it, rather than their clients, even basic communication with patients seems beyond them & there are some elements I’ve encountered which simply don’t function properly, never have & never will.
Maybe you should have arrived two hours early, then you could have had something to eat and still been an hour early.
This is apparently the kind of Ireland we want.
Please explain.