(07-23-2022, 06:07 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:In 2015 my oldest was rushed to the RCH as soon as he was born and spent the first 2 months of his life there.
In 2017 my youngest was rushed to the RCH the day after he was born and spent his first month of his life there and that year a further 2 months from multiple stays.

The hospital then was unbelievable, you couldn't ask for better care.

Last year my youngest spent a week there and my wife and I thought wow this place has slipped a bit, the care not as good as it once was.
Last week he was there again and the care was terrible. They have hardly any nursing staff and the ones that are there don't care.

(07-23-2022, 06:00 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I'd be digging a little deeper before I came to any conclusions based on anecdotes. Myself, my brother, and my wife have all been in the workforce a long time, and we've all had male and female managers (my brother works in the medical industry). Each of us can point to males and females that have been great, and also those that have been lousy.

(07-24-2022, 12:47 AM)Baggers link Wrote:A system under extreme pressure will bring out the worst in some (resorting to type) and the best in others. But everyone has a limit in terms of workload and expectation.

The first question I ask myself is how the hell did our health care system become so vulnerable, so below par when really needed to stand up? You probably have to go back to when Kennett tore the guts out of health care (mental health included) to satisfy the bottom line (loot). Then successive governments not being bold, caring or visionary enough to effect meaningful repairs and growth.

(07-24-2022, 01:39 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Some people forget that the health care system is made up of people.
People have been under ever increasing amounts of stress.
People have been basically underpaid for a long time.
People have started choosing quality of life over the stresses of working within the health care system.

I know of 2 people who took early retirement.
1 who started having babies again to get themselves out of that system.
Several others who have contemplated a completely different career path.

Don't underestimate the fragilty of people in the healthcare system.

(07-24-2022, 06:14 AM)Mav link Wrote:Interesting perspective:
‘Health system in distress’: how ambulance ramping became a major problem, The Guardian.

In short, ambulance ramping is a problem across the States and increasing the number of ambulances isn’t the silver bullet. Access bottlenecks due to shortages of hospital staff and beds and the aged care sector’s reliance on hospitals were exacerbated by Covid.

(08-15-2022, 03:35 AM)shawny link Wrote:So Brett Sutton has just announced in his own words ‘despite 2, 3 or 4 booster shots of covid vaccine the vaccine has now shown that it does not assist in preventing covid’

Who would have thought!!

So in other words we are all responsible for our own protection of covid and whether the guy beside you is vaccinated or not your risk of contracting covid does not change.

With that in mind why were unvaccinated forced to leave their positions as nurses, policemen construction, emergency works - oh except those in law (they were exempt) wonder why that was…….but that’s another story.  And unfairly blokes like Jones or Djokovic that decided they don’t want the vaccine were treated by the majority as outcasts and scumbags who only care about themself.

Our healthcare and emergency services are undermanned and under enormous pressure and how much I’m of that is due to not allowing the unvaccinated to keep their position, a position we need them more then ever now.

The pollies are a disgrace they lie stretch the truth deceive then when they are found out they are never dealt with they way the general public would have been and find a way to just continue on. They chop  and change the rules as it suits them and then demand we take their ‘health advice’ as though it’s gospel. Nothing can be further from the truth. I was conned into having the first double dose and still struggle with some of the side effects and have covid twice and as well as covid I’ve had the flu twice!  My last ‘cold’ I reckon was at least 3 years ago and don’t even remember when I had the flu last.
Got the vaccine and had them both twice in the last 18 months!! Really makes you wonder…..

Absolutely disgraceful how this pandemic has been handled and how those who stood their ground were treated. Time to admit they got it wrong and give the unvaccinated their jobs back.