(05-04-2021, 11:12 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:Health care is tricky.  Most of the reasons why things dont move has more to do with liability, than anything to do with best practise, and litigation has made things a bit more difficult than it needs to be.

(05-05-2021, 02:40 AM)flyboy77 date Wrote:Another take on the Indian 'disaster'.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/india-covid-need-scientific-integrity-not-sensationalism/5744258

Quote:INDIA’S MOUNTAIN of new covid-19 infections is like none other in the course of the pandemic. On April 30th the daily tally of new cases surpassed 400,000, making the country’s current caseload far and away the heaviest yet (the next-biggest outside India was America’s 300,000 new cases recorded on January 2nd). Even that terrible figure is sure to be an underestimate. The share of Indians testing positive for covid-19 is now 23.5%; if a greater proportion of India’s population of 1.4bn were tested, no doubt millions of new cases would be detected. Compared with the scale of South Asia’s first wave, which peaked in September, the second is shocking. South America, another region with a surging caseload, is recording 60% more cases today than at the peak of the first wave. South Asia is logging four times as many, and with hardly a sign of slowing (see chart).

Deaths are now rising rapidly, too. With nearly 3,700 on May 1st, South Asia is logging deaths at the pace the European Union reached during its calamitous peaks of April and November 2020 (see chart). This tally, too, is almost certainly an underestimate. India’s data are collected according to different standards in different places, sometimes apparently with an eye to downplaying the crisis. Some of the country’s most populous states, such as Gujarat with its 64m people or Uttar Pradesh with its 238m, are attributing only tiny fractions of their current excess deaths to covid-19. Simple observation suggests that the true death toll is higher than the official figures suggest. On one day two weeks ago 78 covid deaths were recorded in seven Gujarati cities. On the same day in the same cities 689 funerals were performed under protocols reserved for coronavirus victims.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/03/indias-covid-19-crisis-has-spiralled-out-of-control

(05-05-2021, 02:12 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Code Yellow is for bypass on Hospitals, my new info is that it has been scrapped and that the ambulance officers will take you to the closest ER regardless of how many patients are waiting there.
If you have private insurance dont muck around with the public ER's...If In Melbourne go the the Cabrini, Knox Private ER' s and the like...yep it will cost you around $300 to be seen but you will get immediate attention and access to a specialist if required much quicker.
We are now little America healthcare wise and you need Private Insurance, if you are forced into the public system  then go to the Royal Womens if you are female,  or the Austin in Heidelberg ....If I lived in the West I would avoid Sunshine Hospital and try an inner Hospital like Royal Melbourne or John Fawkner which is private.

(05-05-2021, 04:18 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I went to the Austin and apart from a few goons in the ER who had nothing wrong with them, the service and attention was outstanding, I have zero bad to say about the Austin (Main, ONJ and Repat).

(05-05-2021, 04:23 AM)capcom link Wrote:https://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp

Worth a look

(05-05-2021, 05:49 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:The Austin is the best of the public system hospitals if you are Melbourne based IMHO, my daughter worked there for a while in orthopedics as a Nurse and she said it was the best that she had worked in. We had a mature part time Nurse at my last employer and she also worked in the ER at Austin part time and said same, one of the few publics that wont kick you out early unless you are fully recovered and right to go.
Its not a given that Private hospitals will treat you any better staff wise but they want to make a dollar out of you therefore will initiate diagnosis/treatment earlier and of course are happy to let you occupy a bed and then give you generous amounts of rehab all in the name of being to able rack up a healthy bill on your insurance.
The worst I have seen is Sunshine Hospital, the Government need to build another public hospital out West and resource it properly, overcrowded, too many rookie staff and the experienced staff are just overworked to the max.
Its a growth area out West and the people deserve better than what they are getting. I'd bang on about the lack of police resources as well but this isnt the thread for it..

(05-05-2021, 07:30 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Fark me a person born every 2 seconds!