Cocoa How have the mighty fallen OT. 720On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:40:07 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote One of the main things is not to allow the bureaucrats to dictate the content of any medical diagnosis, treatment...
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:22:26 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
How do you know that?
Is that your consolation for the relatives of the patients who died of food contagioning.
I can't speak about the burns unit, but the surgical ward that B.I.L went on (see previous post) was filthy and decrepit, observations I am qualified to make.
Mary you are not dealing from the same deck of cards.
She had a different condition. Empyema of the gall bladder. Which is a clinical emergency.
This is the end stage of gall bladder disease which occurs if inflammation of the gall bladder has not been treated in a timely manner. It results in the gangrenous gall bladder becoming grossly distended due to it filling up with pus because it cannot drain away (So-called "Penile Gallbladder") .
When my Mother in Law had her gall bladder removed she had to wait 8 weeks for the OP at the LGI, and this could have happened at any time.
NB.. My nephew didn't get anything like the 4 hours treatment at Jimmy's despite having acute appendicitis, the result was peritonitis.
Unfortunately my wife had to wait more than 5 days just to get to see her NHS GP to be referred to BUPA for an ultrasound. BUPA called us back within the hour and made an appointment for the next morning. It took 3 days for her GP to read the letter (which BUPA had taken the trouble to send by fax) and then refer her for the operation. Lots of plausible-plausible excuses from the Health Centre.
AFAIAC the BUPA waiting time for the BUPA op started at the time her GP referred her for it. Monday to Wednesday with antibiotic cover was perfectly acceptable, 8 weeks as per the LGI would not have been.
* NO YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE *
The NHS gets their get money whether there is a bed and-or treatment etc. for you when you need it or not.
DG
