Forced to Wait for 5 hrs At A & E With No Doctor!

[lee6100]

Can't be that serious if he's still alive after 5 hours.

 

[Fook Seng]

hahahhhaha... that is called individuality and independent thinking... That is why on my previous post, i mentioned of setting up an area to scan the sinkie if he understand what is A&E..

Understand that in the A & E, there is a process of triage where the seriousness of a patient's condition is accessed and medical attention is allocated accordingly. They don't go by queue. So if you have only a minor ailment, you have to compete with many others with more serious conditions in the A & E. It will be really surprising if you do not have to wait a very long time. You are better off seeing a GP.

 

[Lian9]

Can wait for 5 hrs and then go to make polis report? My god..

Its like creating a scene for dumb and dumber... Seriously, this guy deserves to be shot...

 

[middaydog]

example of cases which should be in

1) _

How about hypertension of 210 / 160 , is that qualified ?

 

[Cestbon]

210/160 still no problem not going to die.

 

[middaydog]

210/160 still no problem not going to die.

Ya, sure

But the person had history of bleeding in the brain

 

[bryanlim1972]

warning to makapaa, if you keep posting articles with no attempt to correct the format, you will be infracted by me.

where the fuck does it say in the forum rules that posted articles must be kept to a particular format? get off your high horse. typical sinkie, given a little power, you'll start throwing it around like a mini-LKY.

i have no issue with scrolling down to read makapaa's un-formatted articles.

 

[tonychat]

where the fuck does it say in the forum rules that posted articles must be kept to a particular format? get off your high horse. typical sinkie, given a little power, you'll start throwing it around like a mini-LKY.

i have no issue with scrolling down to read makapaa's un-formatted articles.

nice to see someone correct a flaw behaviour in a human being...

 

[sleaguepunter]

i admit some cases may not be real A&E cases but to wait 5hrs is unacceptable. Sometime ppl go A & E because there no choice. Yes there are those expensive 24hr clinic around but A & E no cheap either. It $90 for just consultation at A&E. My mom have an eye infection which cause her eye to water non stop and both eyes super red. i dont think those 24hr GP can handle so lan lan go hospital on sunday. The eye clinic already close off so was told to go A&E to register. we reach there about 10.00am but we walk out at 3.30pm. my mom eye condition was consider a "priority" so we were lucky to leave at 3.30pm because i saw two angmos who i suspect are sailors or marines in US navy inside the A&E, one of them was bleeding on his head (maybe cause by a beer bottle), enter A&E the same time as my mom. By the time my mom left the treatment room at 3pm, the two angmos were still at the waiting area. That 4 hrs with just a towel to stop his head from bleeding and i told him he better off returning to his ship sick bay for treatment. both just lan lan smile back.

 

[johnny333]

hahahhhaha... that is called individuality and independent thinking... That is why on my previous post, i mentioned of setting up an area to scan the sinkie if he understand what is A&E.. After a 20 mins guidance using various dictionary and online wiki to teach him on that if he does not understand, and that sinkie still scream wanna go A&E if his problem is not at that level.

then proceed him for a brain scan to check if his fucktard sinkie brain is working properly. This is one way the hospital can make use of national sinkie stupidity to get some extra profit.

If you are LKY & family I'm pretty sure you won't have any complaints

I'm so surprised that some Sporeans can go around complaining about Canada using hearsay information If a doctor scolds a patient it's because they deserve & it's not because they are making use of facilities that ALL Canadian have a right to. Have lived there for many years & have actual personal experience of the medical system there.

As a matter of fact my Canadian doctor asked me to go to the A&E to change my dressing from surgery for a post surgical infection, because I was unable to do it properly at home. Had to go there everyday for a few weeks until the deep wound healed sufficiently to satisfy my doctor. Yes my case wasn't an emergency so I had to wait 2 to 3 hours.

In Canada they understand that patients are not medical "experts", so how is a layperson to determine if it's such a tummy ache or something more serious. People are more active there with lots of contact sports causing various injuries.

 

[johnny333]

when i had a motorcycle accident, i fracture my bones, my knee cut until can c bone ... but i semi-unconcious .... i was in army & had no $$$ or medical insurance

had to wait over 3 hours until my parents arrived to sign a form to approve payment then doctor start to operate ... in the mean time i bleed & bleed they didn't even give me any pain killer ... 1st world country my ass run by retard only care for $$$$ ... good thing i did not expire ...

Very funny system we have here, you are old enough to carry a gun & to kill for your country BUT must wait for parental permission i.e. their ok to pay $$$, before receiving a life saving operation

 

[Agoraphobic]

If wait so long, can order a pizza.

Cheers!

 

[bushtucker]

do not ever go to a polyclinic on a monday. you register at 9am and wait until 12noon before you can see the doctor! more than half of the patients are foreigners!

 

[vamjok]

Ya, sure

But the person had history of bleeding in the brain

high blood pressure and ex-medical history does play a role in judging, but....u would not die within the next few hours right? maybe in few months time...due to some complications.

such case should go through the normal route, not A and E. I give you a more extreme example, a person having cancer. if he can walk and smile, even if he is having cancer and he needs to go for medical treatment then, he should not be going to A and E.

 

[Ramseth]

Accident & Emergency mean accident and emegency. It's not about how serious your condition is. It's about how urgent your condition needs attention. I've attended many traffic accident and fighting with weapon cases resulting in open wound injuries. Some cases had implications beyond injuries and police accompanied the ambulance to hospital. We can see that some cases were attended to immediately and some had to join the queue. At scene, AO makes the decision whether the case warrants an ambulance. At hospital, the nurse makes the decision whether to call for doctor immediately or gives a queue number.

Bleeding profusely requiring transfusion or unconsciousness in danger of death without immediate revival will be attended immediately. Open wounds needing dressing only will be attended to by the nurse and even requiring warding, the patient will be bedded in the holding bay to queue for a ward.

The magic way to immediate attention and warding is to say the magic words, Class A please. But make sure you also have the magic money.

 

[Ramseth (Inf)]

wow. ramseth (i) is really really very knowledgeable. seems to know every damn thing.

btw, why still giving me infractions?

 

[Ramseth]

wow. ramseth (i) is really really very knowledgeable. seems to know every damn thing.

btw, why still giving me infractions?

I've stopped giving you infraction as long as you're not spamming. Just simply making fun of me for your own amusement is not spamming according to infraction rules and neither am I bothered personally. There's a set of written infraction rules as all infractors know. Leongsam makes the rules, not me.

 

[middaydog]

such case should go through the normal route, not A and E.

ok, I was not medically trained but this person was at one time under chemo treatment when struck by severe headache until passed out, investigation showed brain hemorrhage, nothing was done to that except scan at interval once they confirmed it was not getting worse they discharged her, and a week later at home at 11 PM the headache struck again with high BP reading, in that case you would expect me to wait till 9 next morning?

 

[drifter]

wow. ramseth (i) is really really very knowledgeable. seems to know every damn thing.

btw, why still giving me infractions?

wow why your avatar so funny ....cant stop laughing ...whahahaha.

 

[Ramseth]

ok, I was not medically trained but this person was at one time under chemo treatment when struck by severe headache until passed out, investigation showed brain hemorrhage, nothing was done to that except scan at interval once they confirmed it was not getting worse they discharged her, and a week later at home at 11 PM the headache struck again with high BP reading, in that case you would expect me to wait till 9 next morning?

My son is right. That's usually not considered an emergency can queue. Rushing and cutting queue won't improve anything except deprive other patients with higher emergency priorities. HBP you think urgent? LBP is more urgent and life threatening, just to quote a conveniently corresponding example.