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An evening in A&E

  • 19-12-2008 12:31am
    #1
    Thoie
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    No, not bashing anyone here, just curious about a few things. Spent an evening in A&E with a friend, and a few questions came to mind.

    1) Why did all the medical staff have barcodes on the back of their necks - are the HSE trying to clone them?

    2) Why did people keep leaving me with an unlocked computer full of patient records, and with a patient's details on the screen at all times? I didn't actually do anything, but I was very tempted to look up my own records, having been a patient there previously.

    3) There were "spare" trollies visible. (I use inverted commas as they may have had some secret purpose I'm not aware of). There were a few people being treated who only seemed to have uncomfortable chairs. Any particular reason the people in chairs couldn't have been lying down on a trolley for a while at least?

    And no, I'm not getting into the "my so-and-so was left on a trolley for 7 years" discussion. It makes me laugh when I hear it on Joe Duffy. Having spent a day or so on a trolley at one stage, I was bloody glad of it, and when you're that sick you really don't give a damn where you are. If you're well enough to be whining about being on a trolley, go sit on a plastic chair somewhere for 2 days.


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  • #2
    DocDaneka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭DocDaneka


    1: Those are tracking tags for the scrubs to ensure they get cleaned and replaced

    2: you can pretty easily grab anyones chart in any hospital they are all just left around. Hospital computers need passwords after login to acess results etc. The machines are also ancient and if we locked them they would take forever to reboot (when the guy who locked them walked away without unlocking them )

    3: Trolleys need to be cleaned after patients. No point infecting the next guy with whatever the last guy had


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