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I could respond by stating "I really don't know where to start with this ridiculous post..." but i don't resort to personal insults nor denigrating other posters contributions to a discussion..
Now hang on a minute !!!! I never ‘personally’ insulted you or anyone else on these boards. I simply commented to the content of your post, as did others who referred to “armchair hospital management experts“.I'm not in possession of actual statistics, however i rarely hear of the A&E being praised. I am aware though of very many complaints regarding the service provided at A&E. I and my family have attended A&E on many occasions and our good experiences are far outnumbered by the the bad..
So without actual statistics, your statement: “No matter how good UCHG A&E is purported to be, the complaints greatly outnumber the compliments.” is pure conjecture and guesswork.Thats why i pointed out the problem and the need for it to be resolved..
You originally said “If the staff there were able to admit patients to the wards in a timely fashion, then perhaps waiting times might be halved.“ The A&E nurses are not conjurers or miracle workers and cannot admit people into non-existent beds on the wards. The problem will only be resolved when there are enough beds to meet the public’s need, funded by the politicians… until then the trolley issues will remain.If a GP with decades of experience decides that his patient requires an x-ray, then it is unreasonable for the patient to have to wait many hours in A&E for a trainee doctor to eventually send the patient for x-ray or, worse still, refuse to do so.
What are you on about ? If a GP needs an x-ray... the patient is referred straight to the Radiology Department, not A&E !!!The referral letter from the GP should be treated as an instruction to the hospital and not as a begging letter. Common sense should prevail, not the protection of petty fiefdoms. If a bone of my body was protruding through the flesh, i'd prefer to have a speedy x-ray rather than wait indefinitely in A&E with the wound exposed to infection.
So are you going to pay for a hospital many times the size of UCHG when there is no screening of admissions at the door ? Anyway, that is a hospital management issue and has absolutely nothing to do with the people who work in A&E. The rest of your comments about ‘petty fiefdoms‘ bones protruding through flesh and infection sound hysterical, purely speculative and entirely without foundation, simply because open fractures would be triaged straight away into the assessment area, if possible.As for cancer, once again i refer you to common sense.
And I refer you to the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland … who are “Ireland’s expert voice on ionising radiation.” Their role is to ensure that Irish people and the environment are adequately protected from the harmful effects of ionising radiation. I would suggest they know a little more about the subject than you do. They clearly say “All medical exposures to radiation must be clinically justified and should only be carried out if recommended by a GP or medical consultant.” Yet in your original post you suggested that “the triage nurse send patients for x-ray without the patient having to be seen by a doctor first ” !!!
On average, a person in Ireland receives 540 μSv per year from medical procedures (over 13% of the total exposure) and radiation dosage and damage is cumulative, thereby increasing the incidence of cancer. So basic common sense would dictate that all unnecessary radiation exposure should be avoided. Your notions would blast the Irish population with God only knows how many extra microsieverts.From the letter of referral it must be obvious to the triage nurse that certain patients definitely require bloods to be taken.
Not everyone who attends A&E has a letter and very little is ‘obvious’ in medicine. If everything was ’obvious’… doctors and nurses could qualify with a 2 week correspondence course !Your reference to anaemia is purely speculative and entirely without foundation.
I suggest you Google ‘iatrogenic anaemia’ before you suggest that everyone coming to A&E should be bled without any clinical justification.I don't have empirical evidence, only my own observations and those of family, friends & acquaintances.
Random observations are no basis on which to decide hospital or A&E management issues.It wasn't an attack on the personal competency of anybody, it was merely an utterance of my experience and that of many others who attend A&E. However, triage nurses aren't gods/angels/etc to be bowed down to, they're workers being paid a good wage for what they do or don't do, regardless of whether they do it well or otherwise.
Really ? May I remind you of your previous ‘utterance‘: “Drunkards, junkies and travellers far too often are jumped ahead in the queue, not out of medical necessity, but merely because they'll make a nuisance of themselves. So much for triage.”
Smells like an attack on the commitment and competence of the A&E nurses to me, particularly the scornful “So much for triage” bit at the end. And BTW I don’t think the nurses in A&E are paid half enough, considering the abuse they have to take from ill informed people (and “armchair hospital management experts“) for things that are totally beyond their control.He did. Just a few months ago he visited A&E unannounced and spoke with staff and patients there. How come you didn't know that? Afterwards he made public his dis-satisfaction that the unit was not operating as it should. Who operates the unit, patients?
No, the A&E staff under the conditions imposed upon them by hospital management, their unions and the staff themselves. I reckon theres room for compromise by all parties. Meanwhile patients suffer.
I didn’t know that Dr James Reilly visited UCHG A&E, quite simply because I was not a patient there when he dropped in.
Yet our dear minister for health allowed Letterkenny to open a brand new Emergency Department and medical admissions unit… Meanwhile Galway patients suffer in an inadequate building which is not fit for purpose.
There is a very simple way to resolve the A&E situation… Make a law that those responsible for funding public hospitals must attend them. In other words, that all government Ministers/TD’s and their families (as far as first cousins) are banned from private hospitals and must use public hospitals and A&E facilities. They would get an earful about the problems at all meals, weddings and family gatherings… and the problems would be sorted in no-time flat.
And if the TDs moan about that law, include second cousins too.
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