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A stroke this time.

I wish anyone with a stroke or any brain affliction well. One thing about such is that any affliction affecting the brain does not selectively affect mobility versus cognitive; there’s always a double-whammy where the brain is concerned, it serves many functions, but of course overall intellect can be well preserved.

The nurses and doctors who listened to that girl scream in agony for hours are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people.

Although having witnessed that place first hand recently, I can't imagine working there.

There is a fcuking Public Accounts Committee taking an age looking at RTE squandering a few million - primarily for politicians to get votes - while the waste of hundreds of billions in the HSE gets a free pass. Some country we are alright.

absolutely. Having had the pleasure of sending a night in a trolley in Limerick myself but with nothing life threatening, you wouldn’t treat a dog in the same fashion. People on neighbouring trolleys had a head injury and another had had a heart attack. We were all in the same boat but my neighbours deserved more urgent care. I grew up on a farm and it struck me that any of the sick animals fared better. Their own pen with a decent bed, water and food provided and a vet called to arrive ASAP or medication administered when it was needed.

What ever about the nurses. It also appears a load of doctors on call refused to come in. One eventually turned up.

The problem is both mismanagement and we don't train enough staff. It is the same with dentists on the news his morning. The government want to grow the population, but the number of training places for Irish/EU students is limited.

Dead Chislers Of De HSE

Probably a buke we won’t be getting from Duffer based on his avoidance of acting healthcare related

Disgruntled RTE 'employee' narked when Accounts stopped paying his monthly 10k invoices.

Spoke to a colleague in similar situation in Radio One, with 20 plus years in Montrose. Joe, was dat you?

https://content.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/Echo_Pod_Ep_1237a.mp3

While it is down to each individual to decide, it is also down to their manager to assess the impact of their absence. Obviously being a nurse you are vulnerable to every bug under the sun. Sickness among nurses I am sure is common. But 5 in the one day is an epidemic. Why didnt the manager get contract staff in?

I too thought the consultants sounded careless or lazy but, listening to one consultants testimony, he was on call for 48 hours and had appointments the following morning.

You know what, we have all seen it. It's bad management.

On-call for 48 hours Greys Anatomy style where you can get a nap or a ride in the oncall room, is all well and good in a US hospital, but in understaffed, over worked Irish hospitals, being oncall for 48 hours most likely means working for 48 hours straight. Airline pilots arent allowed work hours like that, why are doctors?

Imagine Dr Joe bumbling around an A&E department, swinging for any patient who give him any auld guff.

Today, KT Hannon, she sez she's in for a 'little whoyle' for Joe…

• Mudder & Baby Homes compo.
• How meaningful are State apologies
• Canadian couple visiting Kerry, arrived 48 hours ago, they have had the best of and worse of times, the ball of scrap rental car broke down…wunder were they riding the hole off the clutch so to speak?
• Hoarders, what do you hoard, has it got out of control?

Re hospital staff calling in sick, when you work in a hospital you are subject to catching everything the sick patients bring in with them and generously share around de hotstipple. A feverish staff member is likely to faint on duty if they persist working, a nurse with the highly contagious Norovirus will be a walking vomit projecting canon in the corridors of care.

in meantime Joe is having a ball of a time at Chateau Duffois in de Door Doyne

Don’t know if I posted this here begore, did on Twitter/x, but I recently had a long conversation with a hospital Carer, who formerly was employed in a public hospital emergency department. There, she had been instructed DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH WAITING PATIENTS, so as not to be distracted by the state they are in or should readiness to make an intervention as you are on your way to complete some duty.

This way a seriously deteriorating patient can be missed. God help any patient presenting on their own who loses the capacity to express how sick they have become, not that they listen to family advocates. She said she could no longer work for the HSE as this is policy to enable staff to cope working in an impossible situation.

no Duffy today..,

He could be “spent” after his week of stardust misery, wallowing in grief,

Poor spaniards. We ae so cruel to them, they did nothing to deserve this