Is it really this bad?

[robpage]

reading thread #16 reminded me , when it was said the Chemist gave the injections , My late Father was a Royal Marine , on the retaking of Singapore after VJ day , he was on guard duty in the hospital , and a Sergeant Medical Orderly called him over , ever given injections Marine , he asked him , The old man told him , no I am a Mechanic , he was told by the orderly that the guard on nights always had to practice giving injections , the old man , said he was not sure , he might hurt someone as he did not know what to do . then he was led into a ward where the Japanese prisoners where . He got used to giving injections after the first week of duty , but I think the Orderly was out of order really .

I thought an old ex seafarer in each Chemist to dole out the jabs might just put the junkies off the drug in the first place

[John Pruden]

rob we had to learn we had a dog diabetic every morning i had to take a sample of his pee work out insulin and inject him we had to practice on an orange at first.jp

[robpage]

When the Old Man related this story , every Boxing Day after a few bevvies I may add , given a choice of an Orange or a Japanese Soldier , he would have done the Soldier every time , what he saw at Changi on the first day ashore made an impression on him that stayed with him all his life . He liked Oranges !

[Ivan Cloherty]

Eh Brian, something you could play with **** 'Royal Marine Taliban Roulette' played with dice, get him to throw the dice, if he gets 1, 2,3,4, or 5 his head comes off, if gets six it means he has to throw again

[happy daze john in oz]

What about "Micro Chips" inserted into everybody rather than NHS medical cards issued, they do it in Battersea Dogs home with their clients
with technology the way it is nowdays it should be possible, and should stop some or most freeloaders.

Only A Joke friends,

BUT ?

Not such a stupid idea, if you are genuine then you have nothing to fear by such things.

[happy daze john in oz]

Similar poroblems here with illegals getting potted while still in detention, that way they can be admitted into the community. But we now have some 10,000 waiting to be assesed for security but will not be so done until they cannprove they are genuine asylum seekers.

[j.sabourn]

Last week I put myself into the emergency section about 2100 and it was 2230 before I saw anybody. During this period delays were due to One punk with a police escort who had stole a car and smashed it up. Also two admitees looking for the cure to drugs or whatever it is. On being released the following day and told after all tests and X rays were done to return if pains persisted. That night they returned so called an ambulance and was admitted straight away, before then being tranferred to a more specialised hospital. I suppose you have to know the system, to me it is to avoid that delay at the admittance centre. Cheers John Sabourn

[Jim Brady]

The average waiting time at A&E throughout the country has risen to 40% up from 25% 3 years ago for patients waiting over 4 hours tobe seen.The NHS made thousands of it workers redundant costing millions in redundancy payouts hence the reason for the drop in standards.What is the answer ?all these same people are being re-employed to get the service back to what it was.There are many bad hostpitals about and the one in Bolton is forever in the news for all the wrong reasons.Hostpital Trusts are telling lies,giving out wrong statistics to cover up their failures.It was noticed (I'm not sure if this was Bolton but it was in that area) that one hostpital had a very high record of deaths that were put down to septicemia the figure was far greater than any other hostpitals throughout the country.Apparently patients dying of septicemia dont figure in the statistics.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Captain Kong]

Hostpital Trusts are telling lies,giving out wrong statistics to cover up their failures.It was noticed (I'm not sure if this was Bolton but it was in that area) that one hostpital had a very high record of deaths that were put down to septicemia the figure was far greater than any other hostpitals throughout the country.Apparently patients dying of septicemia dont figure in the statistics.
Regards.
Jim.B.
.
. That is the one Jim, it was Bolton Royal Hospital with its appalling record.
I am scared of ever having to go back in there.
If possible I try to get my Doctor to referr me to Salford Royal Hospital. It has the lowest mortallity rate in the country, excellent place.
Cheers
Brian.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmate, death rates in hospitals ? must be high because all very ill people end up there, or maybe what they mean is the mistakes that cause the deaths in the first place? An old irishman knew the real truth you go in Ambulance and come out in a pine box?