Stick to what you know best mate!!

walshb

I'm all for improving the health system in Ireland and making
it better for everyone but this guy should stick to being an
oncologist and leave the politics and the management to
the relevant people. Now he's saying he's basically
fed up. I'd hate to be a bloody cancer patient
in his care if he's basically fed up. He's paid and paid
well to be an oncolgist. Get to doing it!!!. There are people
who need you to be caring for them, not parading around TV and radio
stations day in and day out.
I didn't think guys like him with their work commitments and
workload would have time to be on the Late Late and the likes...
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cancer-specialist-at-centre-of-rte-row-refuses-to-be-gagged-1217181.html

jdivision

Do you expect him to work 24 hours? Crown has illustrated a lot of things wrong in the health service, including patients being apparently deliberately overcharged, and deserves to be commended for this. He is a refreshing antidote to the spin emerging from the Dept of Health (what exactly does it do because the HSE has taken over most of its functions) and the HSE. It's for this reason that the govt is insisting on a gag order on people like crown under the new consultants contracts. They don't want people hearing the truth about the managerial and staff inefficiencies that characterise the health service in Ireland.

walshb

jdivision wrote: »

Do you expect him to work 24 hours? Crown has illustrated a lot of things wrong in the health service, including patients being apparently deliberately overcharged, and deserves to be commended for this. He is a refreshing antidote to the spin emerging from the Dept of Health (what exactly does it do because the HSE has taken over most of its functions) and the HSE. It's for this reason that the govt is insisting on a gag order on people like crown under the new consultants contracts. They don't want people hearing the truth about the managerial and staff inefficiencies that characterise the health service in Ireland.

Do I expct him to work 24 hrs?

Where do you get this insinuation from?

I expect him to do his job and the job he is paid to do, which
is care for cancer patients. All his time should be spent doing this.
Either he's an oncologist or NOT?
Leave the politics to the politicians.
And by the way, I as a taxpayer pay him to be
an oncologist. I do not pay him to be a TV celebrity
etc etc.

jdivision

walshb wrote: »

I didn't think guys like him with their work commitments and
workload would have time to be on the Late Late and the likes...

Suggesting you think he should have been working while a show is on at 9.30 suggests that. He works sfa hours for the public service every week becase that's what consultants were allowed do. The new contract will help cut down on that but that's another story. He isn't being a celebrity, he's criticising the health service for the service it provides. This guy isn't just doing it for the sake of it, he actually cares and has proven that by getting people refunds when they were overcharged.

flogen

walshb wrote: »

Leave the politics to the politicians.

Without taking the side of Dr. Crown in particular I think that's a pretty odd statement - surely an expert in any field is entitled to give a public opinion on it?

Do you think TDs know better of the education system than teachers do too?

jdivision

walshb wrote: »

Leave the politics to the politicians.
.

Surely you're kidding. When there's a problem you go to the experts and few if any policiticians are experts on the health service, as evidenced by the fact they continually throw money into a black hole while seemingly completely incapable of actually resolving issues.

brianthebard

Isn't it better walshb that he's highlighting the problems he sees in the HSE from the inside, rather than just picking up a pay cheque and not giving a ****? I think he's doing more for his patients by bringing up these issues and being effectively a thorn in the governments side, rather than sitting back, keeping quiet and allowing all patients be short changed again and again.

EamonnKeane

Do I expct him to work 24 hrs?

Where do you get this insinuation from?

I expect him to do his job and the job he is paid to do, which
is care for cancer patients. All his time should be spent doing this.

Self-contradiction ftw

And surely campaigning for reform is a method of caring for cancer patients? Would B. Walsh be a relative of Joe Walsh by any chance?

walshb

No I am not related to Joe Walsh.....