Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[ElwoodBlues1]

Sorry, I don't agree that the Private health system is more advanced than the Public in this country .  The Private system tends to pick and choose what sort of healthcare it provides based on what is financially sustainable, for example it is happy to do knee repairs on footballers because the outcome (and hence the cost) is very predictable.  But when it comes to things like little old ladies with broken hips, they tend to shy away simply because it is more difficult healthcare to provide and manage (they send these patients down to the Public hospital who are glad to admit them immediately as 'private' patients).

Many Private medicos still work in the Public system, since this is where they are more likely to have access to cutting-edge technology and research.  Governments love buying the latest gizmos (the bigger the better), simply because it gives the pollies a chance to stand next to it on the Sunday news.  Privates won't invest until they know they will make money out of it.

Have to disagree, you get cross over with extreme specialty areas like neurosurgery as they are in short supply and work in teams
in both systems but in other areas you get grad doctors and grad specialists in the public system and thats the B grade team.
Example, my daughter needed reconstructive hand surgery after a dog attack left one of her hands mutilated.
The plastics team at a Western Suburb public hospital fecked up the repair as well as failing to deal with the infection that had set in due to the delay in being treated, the grad specialist said it could wait a couple of days...?
End result was we had to take her to a City based Private Group of Hand Surgeons on referral, only they had the micro surgery skill level to repair the nerve/tendon damage and deal with the infection, one of her fingers is now shorter but at least she has a working hand.