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"Next deaf person please"

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  • 26-09-2013 3:12pm
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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,871 ✭✭✭✭


    Waterford Regional Hospital have a clinic for deaf people.
    I was there yesterday with my mother.
    You register when you arrive.
    When it's your turn they call out your name over the public address system.
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    nelly17
    Registered Users Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭nelly17


    Oh Dear


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    [Deleted User]
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    Sorry, what?


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    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Haven't heard anything about that.


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    Fred Swanson
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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,871 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Sorry, what?

    I SAID...


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    [Deleted User]
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    josip wrote: »
    I SAID...

    Jeeze, what's with the big writing? I'm deaf, not blind ffs.


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    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Lack of money caused this problem....

    .... No... Wait....


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    Seaneh
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    josip wrote: »
    Waterford Regional Hospital have a clinic for deaf people.
    I was there yesterday with my mother.
    You register when you arrive.
    When it's your turn they call out your name over the public address system.


    At my E.N.T. outpatient appointments same thing happens. I usually don't wear my hearing aid unless I need it so I do be sitting there while some poor reg shouts my name for 5 minutes before he comes and gets me.

    I don't get why,when dealing with people with hearing problems they don't just walk the extra 10meters and get them.


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    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I so hope this is true.


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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,871 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    Yes. It's common knowledge that when a person goes deaf that they lose the ability to walk, cycle, board a bus, drive a car or anything that passes for semi-intelligent independent activity.


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    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    Is it not for the hearing impaired?


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    [Deleted User]
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    In the ENT clinic in Limerick, when it’s your turn, a little old lady nurse comes out behind the waiting area and whispers “mark Flynn.” Not only am I facing the other direction (TV on up high in opposite wall), if I’m facing her, I can barely hear her (one functioning ear, the other is solely to hold up my glasses)
    She spends the next 5 minutes going to everyone asking their name. There could be 40 people there and she has to do it for most patients!


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    spank_inferno
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    I don't get why,when dealing with people with hearing problems they don't just walk the extra 10meters and get them.

    eh... Talk to me union mate.


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    Bog Standard User
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    go on im listening..... mmmkay i hear ya...


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    Irish Halo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    OK hands up if you're not here ...


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    PhlegmyMoses
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    2 big screens on either wall, VGA to PC and a basic program like MS word where the nurse types the name of the next person onto it so everyone can see it. Ridiculous problem solved for less than €3000. Where's my consultancy fee?


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    WIZE
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Jeeze, what's with the big writing? I'm deaf, not blind ffs.

    Hear Hear


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    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,468 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Gastroenterology clinic in Tallaght hospital has one toilet between sixty odd people who permanently have the sh*ts, often waiting there for over three hours.


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    The Backwards Man
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    What do you call a deaf person in a hospital waiting room?






    E








    Unwell.


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    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    WIZE wrote: »
    Hear Hear

    Don't you mean ear ear?


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    castletownman
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    You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel


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    spank_inferno
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    PhlegmyMoses wrote: »
    2 big screens on either wall, VGA to PC and a basic program like MS word where the nurse types the name of the next person onto it so everyone can see it. Ridiculous problem solved for less than €3000. Where's my consultancy fee?


    The waiting area is not that big.
    So the admin person just squirts the next patient with a super-soaker to get their attention.

    Being the public sector, the super-soaker will be filled with Taihitian mineral water.


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    BizzyC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    I saw a print ad for adult literacy classes once... didn't make a huge amount of sense to me


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