Comments on: How to unclog Emergency Departments in Aussie Hospitals http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/ So you think you're cultured? Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lili http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Lili Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:04:00 +0000 http://www.liligans.com/?p=1255#comment-776 Max, we can only hope that something good will come out of these changes. Improving the Health system is indeed very daunting and I am not sure that Rudd has the integrity to think of the good of the people. That is a shame about sick diabetics whom you've witnessed. I remember when I had a terrible reaction to MSG and collapsed in a restaurant. My husband had to reassure the staff that I had not had a drink, so I can understand how the police could misjudge the situation. Let's face it, Max, if the solution had been simple it would have been done already. Max, we can only hope that something good will come out of these changes. Improving the Health system is indeed very daunting and I am not sure that Rudd has the integrity to think of the good of the people.
That is a shame about sick diabetics whom you’ve witnessed.

I remember when I had a terrible reaction to MSG and collapsed in a restaurant. My husband had to reassure the staff that I had not had a drink, so I can understand how the police could misjudge the situation.
Let’s face it, Max, if the solution had been simple it would have been done already.

]]> By: Max http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Max Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:04:05 +0000 http://www.liligans.com/?p=1255#comment-775 I don't have an instead, Lili -- I'd be very happy to see a watertight scheme up and working, but my cynical nature doesn't help me to guess who might be capable of designing same! Incidentally, I've known sick diabetics collared by the boys in blue. Cheers I don’t have an instead, Lili — I’d be very happy to see a watertight scheme up and working, but my cynical nature doesn’t help me to guess who might be capable of designing same! Incidentally, I’ve known sick diabetics collared by the boys in blue. Cheers

]]> By: Lili http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Lili Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:37:29 +0000 http://www.liligans.com/?p=1255#comment-774 Good point, Max, but I'm referring mainly to those drunks and druggies who are violent and who pose a threat to waiting patients and overpowered staff. I agree, however, that there would occasionally be some mix-ups, but then this current method is not working well since the violent patients take up a disproportionate amount of attention. We already spend a lot of resources, both medical and police on people who are repeat offenders. Ordinary sick people don't require police while drunks and druggies are usually picked up by cops. Max, think of the number of people who die from an hypo attack because they have to wait too long in an emergency department. What do you suggest we do instead? Good point, Max, but I’m referring mainly to those drunks and druggies who are violent and who pose a threat to waiting patients and overpowered staff. I agree, however, that there would occasionally be some mix-ups, but then this current method is not working well since the violent patients take up a disproportionate amount of attention. We already spend a lot of resources, both medical and police on people who are repeat offenders. Ordinary sick people don’t require police while drunks and druggies are usually picked up by cops.

Max, think of the number of people who die from an hypo attack because they have to wait too long in an emergency department.

What do you suggest we do instead?

]]> By: Max http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Max Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:49:21 +0000 http://www.liligans.com/?p=1255#comment-773 Great idea!--but isn't the devil in the detail? e.g.Imagine being the poor, rushed triage person who sent, for instance, a hypoglycaemic diabetic down the drunks' tube to dry out--where, instead, he went comatose and shuffled off the coil!The difference is not easy for ANYONE to spot in a hurry, so I believe. Great idea!–but isn’t the devil in the detail? e.g.Imagine being the poor, rushed triage person who sent, for instance, a hypoglycaemic diabetic down the drunks’ tube to dry out–where, instead, he went comatose and shuffled off the coil!The difference is not easy for ANYONE to spot in a hurry, so I believe.

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