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Retiree uses neighbor's electric fence to jump-start heart
You know why hospitals don't allow guns inside? Because the patients would use them on the nursing staff.
A 69 year-old man on medication for atrial fibrillation had developed an irregular heartbeat, which can lead to a stroke. So he went to the hospital, per procedure. After two hours of testing, they told him he would have to wait six more hours for the treatment -- which takes about 30 seconds. According to the article, this is roughly how the conversation went...
Elderly Patient: "I have to wait six hours? Well, the meds I'm on for this condition will run out in three hours. Can I run home and pick up some more?"
Cunt Nurse: "NO! If you leave this room, you'll have to start over."
Elderly Patient: "Oh. Well, do you have any of those meds in the hospital you can give me? 'Cause as I said, they'll run out in thr--"
Cunt Nurse: "NO! Now shut up and quit pestering me! Can't you see I'm browsing Faceb -- er, doing important things -- you stupid old fuck?"
Elderly Patient: "%$#@!"
Oh, did I mention this is in New Zealand? Socialized medicine, dontcha know...
Hey there Johnny Doctor, you know what's even more "dangerous and ill-advised"? Socialized medicine.
You know why hospitals don't allow guns inside? Because the patients would use them on the nursing staff.
A 69 year-old man on medication for atrial fibrillation had developed an irregular heartbeat, which can lead to a stroke. So he went to the hospital, per procedure. After two hours of testing, they told him he would have to wait six more hours for the treatment -- which takes about 30 seconds. According to the article, this is roughly how the conversation went...
Elderly Patient: "I have to wait six hours? Well, the meds I'm on for this condition will run out in three hours. Can I run home and pick up some more?"
Cunt Nurse: "NO! If you leave this room, you'll have to start over."
Elderly Patient: "Oh. Well, do you have any of those meds in the hospital you can give me? 'Cause as I said, they'll run out in thr--"
Cunt Nurse: "NO! Now shut up and quit pestering me! Can't you see I'm browsing Faceb -- er, doing important things -- you stupid old fuck?"
Elderly Patient: "%$#@!"
Oh, did I mention this is in New Zealand? Socialized medicine, dontcha know...
Dr John Bonning, Waikato Hospital's clinical director, did not recommend people use an electric fence that way as it was "dangerous and ill-advised".
Hey there Johnny Doctor, you know what's even more "dangerous and ill-advised"? Socialized medicine.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 16:29
1 Comments:
"Unfortunately incidents of verbal and physical aggression is an increasing problem confronting healthcare workers every day. We have adopted a zero tolerance policy that refers to specific actions or behaviours that will not be tolerated."
Strange how people become increasingly aggressive when dealing with socialized services... I'm sure adopting a "zero tolerance policy" will help reduce all that aggression.
"It is not practical or safe for a busy ED to let patients go home and come back into the queue. If they are well enough to go home then they probably could seek treatment elsewhere."
Seek treatment elsewhere? Like a competing service provider?
So, in short:
"Everything is free, you ungrateful assholes! Now sit down, shut up and wait for us to get around to you when we feel like it (after our union mandated 2 hour lunch break, of course). We're the only game in town, so you'll take what we give and like it! If you don't, we will.. well, not give a fuck. Because why should we? Its not like you are paying us or can go somewhere else. And if you die, that is one less problem for us. Now let me get back to shredding this old waiting list and filling out that report telling my supervisor what a wonderful job we are doing."
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