WTH is wrong with our health system?
Our health system is broken. It has to be. Because I am so beyond angry right now.
Mum was supposed to go for surgery tomorrow, but it's been cancelled because the doctor who was supposed to do it is sick. Why do they not have someone to take his/her place?
This is going beyond annoying now. She was supposed to have had the surgery three weeks ago, but they kept changing the time, so instead of in the morning it was going to be early afternoon. It gets to two o'clock, when she's had nothing to eat or drink and they tell her they can't do the surgery because another patient had complications. I mean, she's type two diabetic. What kind of hospital would make a diabetic starve for that long and then tell her, oh, sorry. Then she gets a new date, but it gets cancelled last minute.
This was for, I think, a knee replacement. She's in pain all the time, painkillers are useless, she can't sleep and to top it off, a couple of times, she's threatened suicide because she can't take it. She has moments where she can't even move her legs, let alone walk.
And good luck getting it done privately. They're apparently just as bad.
I get there are other factors, but she saw the specialist a year ago and was put on the waiting list. I also realise they've had Covid to deal with, but come on, this is orthopaedics, not virology!
I did a story a couple of weeks ago about our local health provider. They can't get the staff and people are waiting weeks to see a doctor. Forget it if you've just moved to town. They won't take on new patients. The nearest alternative is 50kms away.
I'm sick and tired of a system that just keeps letting us down!
Sorry for the angry rant. Just needed to vent.
Mum was supposed to go for surgery tomorrow, but it's been cancelled because the doctor who was supposed to do it is sick. Why do they not have someone to take his/her place?
This is going beyond annoying now. She was supposed to have had the surgery three weeks ago, but they kept changing the time, so instead of in the morning it was going to be early afternoon. It gets to two o'clock, when she's had nothing to eat or drink and they tell her they can't do the surgery because another patient had complications. I mean, she's type two diabetic. What kind of hospital would make a diabetic starve for that long and then tell her, oh, sorry. Then she gets a new date, but it gets cancelled last minute.
This was for, I think, a knee replacement. She's in pain all the time, painkillers are useless, she can't sleep and to top it off, a couple of times, she's threatened suicide because she can't take it. She has moments where she can't even move her legs, let alone walk.
And good luck getting it done privately. They're apparently just as bad.
I get there are other factors, but she saw the specialist a year ago and was put on the waiting list. I also realise they've had Covid to deal with, but come on, this is orthopaedics, not virology!
I did a story a couple of weeks ago about our local health provider. They can't get the staff and people are waiting weeks to see a doctor. Forget it if you've just moved to town. They won't take on new patients. The nearest alternative is 50kms away.
I'm sick and tired of a system that just keeps letting us down!
Sorry for the angry rant. Just needed to vent.