We’ll scream at you, give you the wrong meds and maybe even beat you to a pulp ….. but we’ll never rape ya …..
Apologies everyone, I’ve been taking a little break from everything. You see after the erm …. “incident” I’ve decided to strom out of work and have spent the past couple of days watching weeds and playing Gears of War 2 while catching up with my reading ……. Anyway here’s another morbidly distrubing post for all of you to enjoy …….
Our noble profession has recently sunk to a new low and surprisingly this hasn’t been as a result of the hard work (or lack there of) of my collegues here in Kuwait. For the first time in a long time I’ve found another healthcare provider to gripe about, another set of administrators, doctors and ward attendants to prove how dumb/bad/just plain wrong (in the Hannibal Lecter sense) doctors/nurses are.
The british healthcare system (the NHS) was once known for being robust, reliable and efficient, during the 80′s however it did go into s slump (Thatcher blamed the immigrants for the most part) and since then has gone on to try and rectify things.
For the most part they have improved remarkably over the past 2 decades, GP’s actually diagnose people, surgeons try their best to look out for their patients interest rather than just slice and dice and emergencies are dealt with within minutes rather than the 8+ hours US medicare and Medicaid is now famous for and the complete lack of urgency our boys seem to practice like a goddamn national sport.
However as with any corpration, group of people or football soccer football soccer team there’s always the one person who ends up fucking a sheep and giving everybody else a bad name (for boxing it was Mike Tyson, for us it was Bin Laden and his crew and in the case of the music industry it was Britney Spears) and the NHS is no exception.
Over the past few months over 30 different cases of sexual assault on patients have been reported and although they were initially isolated to psychiatric centers (and were therefor ignored by the higher ups) they have recently also been reported on general medical wards. The worst part is that it seems to be happening to patients who are heavily sedated or too sick to do anything about it and the person(s) involed were for the most part fired and set free without enduring any legal penalties, this was mostly because there wasn’t enough evidence to convict them (the smart bastards)
So the next time you find yourself pissed of with that MRI appointment booked for next year or that fucked up nurse that bruised you while taking your blood just remember thing could be worse …….
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Dec 1st 2008 • 22:12
by plastic
isn’t gears of war 2 just dreeeamy did you reach the part where Dom meets maria i swear i actually teared up sappy sappy little me
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Dec 1st 2008 • 23:12
by KTDP
plastic: agreed, one of the best games ever. Whats up with the sappy side? (referring to your latest post)
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Dec 2nd 2008 • 09:12
by Ansam
Did you kill that damn patient???
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Dec 2nd 2008 • 13:12
by Saud
HAHAHAAHHAAHHAA Things could be worse! Right… Ill keep that in mind next time
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Dec 3rd 2008 • 07:12
by eshda3wa
so next time i should be glad the dr is screwing me
but not literally screwing me
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Dec 3rd 2008 • 15:12
by KTDP
Ansam: wish I did….. I did something alot worse ….. I fixed the bastard.
eshda3wa: loool … didn’t think of it that way.
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Dec 4th 2008 • 01:12
by Delicately Realistic
I want to know more about this incident of urs.
My mess-ups so far:
Giving an antibiotic BD instead of TDS….thank God it was an add on antibiotic (aka unnecessary) but in my defence i had it TDS in the MR12 but nurses always notice the silly stuff and never the important stuff….oh well..no harm was done…
Not d/c-ing clexane…..and in my defence the patient continued to be symptomatic during that period, so i guess i did him a favour.
Getting mixed up between 2 patients.
Getting mixed up between 2 patients.
Getting mixed up between 2 patients.
Getting mixed up between 2 patients.
Thats all i can think of for now….but im sure theres more.
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Dec 4th 2008 • 16:12
by desertpalms
Minutes?? dude ur joking rightttttt….the A&E system here is crap..but yeah I admit the NHS has improved…
but just a fuck up thats happened recently by both healthcare and social workers..the Baby P case..
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Dec 4th 2008 • 22:12
by Broke Saudi
The medical world needs a Doogie Howser revival.
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Dec 5th 2008 • 14:12
by KTDP
Delicately Realistic: I didn’t really manage the patient wrong. I just taught the bastard some manners that’s all
desertpalms: Baby P’s case is a perfect example of bureaucracy getting in the way of everything. Because there were so many people involved and very few with a solid background in medicine or social services the baby ended up being mis-managed in almost every way imaginable.
Broke Saudi: indeed.
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Dec 5th 2008 • 17:12
by MacaholiQ8
There’s always a b@stard amongst good people and they all get blamed for his stupid actions. :/
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Dec 7th 2008 • 15:12
by Ansam
3eidik embarak Doc
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Dec 9th 2008 • 00:12
by twentythree
question: r the docs in the fintas clinic even qualified?? I went in with a skin tag, wanted cream to shrink it before i get it removed in london….. he gave me cough bottle!!!
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Mar 24th 2009 • 13:03
by Blogg
Thaks!
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May 14th 2010 • 05:05
by chanel handbags
My husband would appreciate this post. We were not too long ago talking about this. hehe
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