You need an appointment? ...here's your appointment

peasant

...just don't expect to actually see a doctor any time soon :pac:

THE MIDLANDS Regional Hospital in Mullingar has been accused of conning patients by giving them appointments to see a consultant who no longer worked at the hospital and then cancelling them just before the patients were due to be seen

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0925/1224255208956.html


Please be so kind and quietly die of skin cancer while we go rooting for a dermatologist ...or not.

The HSE, in a statement last evening, admitted appointments had been issued to patients even though there was no doctor to see them. It had sought on a number of occasions to recruit a temporary replacement for Dr O’Kane after she moved jobs, but there were no suitable applications.

GUBU nation, chapter 5137

Biggins

...at least they got a friggin' appointment! Bogus or not!

Rented Mule

My wife had set up a gynecological exam after having our GP write several letters to to several hospitals. After waiting for three months, she gets a letter from Beaumont Hospital to say that she has an appointment in June.

My wife goes up for her appointment with referral latter/notification in hand and sits down to wait to see the doctor.

After 45 minutes of whispers, pointing and scurrtying around the office, one of the nurses calls her up to the desk. They inform her that although she does in fact have an appointment for this particular day, it is in fact for the year 2010.

15 months for an appointment after months of writing letters.

Mary Harney and her friends in government should be dragged through the streets and strung up by their toes.

lisbon_lions

Rented Mule wrote: »

15 months for an appointment after months of writing letters.

Mary Harney and her friends in government should be dragged through the streets and strung up by their toes.

Followed by a good beating to the soles of their feet with a lump of wood. She'll not be going on any jaunts to Florida for a while after that.

genericguy

Rented Mule wrote: »

Mary Harney and her friends in government should be dragged through the streets and strung up by their toes.

that's fcuking disgraceful. the worst thing that can happen now is the economy picking up, because they'll be seen as the reason for it, and people will vote for them again.

Imagine if harney/her daughter/sister/ma were to find a lump on themselves, do you think this would be allowed to happen then?

Biggins

This is fcuking disgraceful but you know what?
What will happen? Nothing. Somewill get fired, on the way out collect a nice pension and one week later the nation will await the next outrage - if only that we can fire them then put them up for election eventually for President! :rolleyes:

Think about it. SICK people that have been worrying, stressing, about trying to stay healthy, were inquisitively mislead by false information, false appointments for medical staff that doesn't exist and then sent away again, treated like dirt.

Those running this country are a disgrace to humanity.
They should be put up against a wall and shot.
This country needs a revolution.

Fizman

Rented Mule wrote: »

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Mary Harney and her friends in government should be dragged through the streets and strung up by their hooves.

FYP

Theta

Biggins wrote: »

This country needs a revolution.

Not this again.

AnonoBoy

Biggins wrote: »

This country needs a revolution.

Or a general election at the very least.

Biggins

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Or a general election at the very least.

Change would be a fine thing but as we all know, there is no one appearing to be decent enough, to be leading this nation.
We have at the mo just crooks in the Dail on all sides.

Oh The Humanity

If you put 'dermatologist' into the search on goldenpages.ie it only comes up with 6 results!

So are there only 6 dermatologists in Ireland.......?

Thats zillions of acres of skin to 6 measly Doctors....

What if I get a lumpy or a bumpy....???

deco05ie

Oh The Humanity wrote: »

If you put 'dermatologist' into the search on goldenpages.ie it only comes up with 6 results!

So are there only 6 dermatologists in Ireland.......?

Thats zillions of acres of skin to 6 measly Doctors....

What if I get a lumpy or a bumpy....???

Go abroad, seriously.

Hal1

Or join the leper colony.

Oh The Humanity

Indeed! If I develop any bumpy lumpies I will go abroad.

How come all the Tiger cubs don't see a gap in the market and become skin docs?

The greedy grasping little fcukers that they are?

j1smithy

Rented Mule wrote: »

My wife had set up a gynecological exam after having our GP write several letters to to several hospitals. After waiting for three months, she gets a letter from Beaumont Hospital to say that she has an appointment in June.

My wife goes up for her appointment with referral latter/notification in hand and sits down to wait to see the doctor.

After 45 minutes of whispers, pointing and scurrtying around the office, one of the nurses calls her up to the desk. They inform her that although she does in fact have an appointment for this particular day, it is in fact for the year 2010.

15 months for an appointment after months of writing letters.

Mary Harney and her friends in government should be dragged through the streets and strung up by their toes.

How about going private?

TheZohanS

Oh The Humanity wrote: »

If you put 'dermatologist' into the search on goldenpages.ie it only comes up with 6 results!

So are there only 6 dermatologists in Ireland.......?

Thats zillions of acres of skin to 6 measly Doctors....

What if I get a lumpy or a bumpy....???

Here's a few more for you.

Rented Mule

j1smithy wrote: »

How about going private?

That's finally what she ended up doing.

I thought the idea of pushing private hospitals on the public was supposed to free up spaces for those going public, but apparently that is not the case.

Gummy Panda

where does the health money go to though?

It seems the more money we throw at it, the less return we get.

Mint Sauce

heres one for ya, had to see a consultant my self a few years ago, queryed the wait to see them public, was told about a 12 month wait, queryed private, was asked by the secetary hows next thursday for you

and when i went for my consult sat in the waiting room with both public and private patients

another thing with this appointment lark, alot of people work 9 to 5 jobs, most GP surgurys i know also run 9 to 5, dont know of many that have saturday morning clinic or late evening once or twice a week, meaning you also need to take time off to see you doc

also you go to the doctor clearly unwell, and your asked do you have an appointment, oh you cant see the doctor without one, you think to your self, yeah, i knew 2 weeks ago that i was going to wake up sick this morning so made a booking

health service is a joke

rant over

kelle

Rented Mule wrote: »

My wife had set up a gynecological exam after having our GP write several letters to to several hospitals. After waiting for three months, she gets a letter from Beaumont Hospital to say that she has an appointment in June.

My wife goes up for her appointment with referral latter/notification in hand and sits down to wait to see the doctor.

After 45 minutes of whispers, pointing and scurrtying around the office, one of the nurses calls her up to the desk. They inform her that although she does in fact have an appointment for this particular day, it is in fact for the year 2010.

15 months for an appointment after months of writing letters.

Mary Harney and her friends in government should be dragged through the streets and strung up by their toes.

Your poor wife, getting all geared up for this appointment only for this to happen. Similar happened to me when my youngest daughter was a baby, her pupils were different sizes and the stuff that the medical internet sites were coming up with was upsetting me. My GP sent a letter to an opthalmologist, I got an appointment letter in the post. I got up my mobile phone calendar, and tried to put in the date and couldn't understand why the day and the date were different - then I realised it was for 14 months later, not 2 months! As it happened, the problem rectified itself and I was (thankfully) able to cancel the appointment. I couldn't help thinking though, if some internet sites I read had been correct and she had a brain tumour it would have been fairly advanced by the time of the appointment date..