CV and mad panic behaviour

[Thryleon]

So the surgeons at the coal face saying they should proceed with certain elective procedures are ill informed?

I have had to deal with a few of the very top surgeons over the years and there is no greater respect I have for anyone in any field then those guys. There are hero’s, who work crazy hours because they are devoted to the cause and apart from being the smartest people I have ever encountered, there wasn’t much about the health and hospital system as a whole they did not have a good grip on.

So if you saying we should take the governments decision over several respected surgeons view who have spoke against the restriction not a chance.

the surgeons are not running the place.

The government are the ones who set the accreditation standards. 

The government funds the place using tax payers dollars.

The nurses are generally the ones that run hospitals.

Surgeons, are surgeons.  Brilliant at what they do, but they don't run health services, even if they run their own private practise.  Most of them are poor at anything but their specialty.  In fact, they're highly specialized and usually pretty crap with the finer details of things outside their profession including being notoriously bad at managing finances.

Next time you speak to your top notch surgeon, ask them about how the health services are funded.

They wouldn't know.  They don't know that the government funds e erything based on health information managers applying codes to each and every treatment that is administered in a hospital encounter.  Heck, most of them don't even write their own notes.

The government doesn't do a Stirling job of everything.  I've been employed by a health service since Chris Judd last played for West coast, and the biggest issue I had with what they did with money was how they consumed their budget to ensure they got a similar amount next year, but they do service all parts of the community in like fashion, and they don't share staff across health services because there are additional considerations there regarding employment contracts, resourcing, training, and ensuring that staff actually know what they're doing at each health service.