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Terrified to become sick

  • 02-03-2009 2:02pm
    #1
    holly1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭


    I am so afraid if I become unwell and have to go to hospital with all the talk about cutbacks.It was bad enough during the boom times,but now with talk of bed closures,staff cutbacks and probly more,what is it going to be like now.Does anyone else feel the same:(


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  • #2
    Gazza22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    I tend not to worry about "becoming" sick, get those thoughts out of your mind! Not good for your mental health :)

    Maybe put the energy into lobbying on behalf of your local hospital even if it's just a simple letter to a local TD voicing your opinion!


  • #3
    holly1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭holly1


    Maby you are a lot younger than I am!!!!


  • #4
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    How bad are the cutbacks in the health service do you know?

    Anyway, I think gazza is dead right though, there's not much point stressing yourself thinking about the possibility of getting sick.


  • #5
    themadchef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    I have been very sick twice in my life. The first time was age 24, no medical card, no insurance. The treatment i recieved in St Vincents was excellent. There was no different (bar the public bed) in the care i recieved compared to the a couple of years ago when i was covered with private insurance.

    Doctors and nurses are doing every thing they can to Diagnose and treat you.

    Worrying will only wreck your head and your health if you let it. My advice would be go for your regular check ups. Make sure youre happy with your GP. Eat healthy, get your exercise in. Try to be positive.

    None of us are getting any younger but we sure as hell have it alot better than generations before us, don't forget that.

    Let your local representitive know you're worried, fire off a letter or an email and let them know who put them in government and in whos interest they're supposed to be working.

    Alone we can do nothing, but together we can kick their collective fat cat asses ;)


  • #6
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    Anyway, I think gazza is dead right though, there's not much point stressing yourself thinking about the possibility of getting sick.
    Gazza22 wrote: »
    I tend not to worry about "becoming" sick, get those thoughts out of your mind! Not good for your mental health :)
    themadchef wrote: »
    Worrying will only wreck your head and your health if you let it. My advice would be go for your regular check ups. Make sure youre happy with your GP. Eat healthy, get your exercise in. Try to be positive.

    +1s all round.


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  • #7
    AmcD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭AmcD


    I agree with all the replies telling you not to worry. The media love a bad news story. You will never see stories on the 9 o'clock news saying "hundreds of happy elderly people got their hip replacements this year" or "the vast majority of people get a GP appointment on the day they ring for one". Only bad news about the health service is news. Call me cynical, but inspiring general fear and panic about the health service may be to the government's advantage. If everybody is petrified of going near hospitals, it keeps the numbers down.
    I work as a GP. There is no change in access to hospital appointments or other services. Yet. We are all working as normal. The only change is the number of people attending us with stress and depression related problems due to financial worries.


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