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Tallaght x-rays review done

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  • #2
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    How did this backlog happen exactly?

    However bad Tallaght hospital seems to be, you never, and I mean EVER want to end up in Columcilles hospital in Loughlinstown. Wow... what a kip.


  • #3
    starbelgrade
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    Gael Skinny Recording wrote: »
    How did this backlog happen exactly?

    Public Service. Passport Office backlogs, Social Welfare claims backlogs, Tax Refund backlogs etc etc.


  • #4
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Gael Skinny Recording wrote: »
    How did this backlog happen exactly?

    X-rays were reviewed for the purposes for which they were taken, but were never reviewed by a consultant.

    That's why the number of people affected were so low - all the x-rays were reviewed by experts, just not expert-experts.


  • #5
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Public Service. Passport Office backlogs, Social Welfare claims backlogs, Tax Refund backlogs etc etc.

    Cheeky :P
    The_Minister wrote: »
    X-rays were reviewed for the purposes for which they were taken, but were never reviewed by a consultant.

    That's why the number of people affected were so low - all the x-rays were reviewed by experts, just not expert-experts.

    Ahhh... so is it that important for a consultant to view these X-rays? I thought the doctor was adequately trained to view and have an opinion on them?

    I didn't realise it was like this at all.


  • #6
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    The_Minister wrote: »
    No more people found.

    Wouldn't surprise me if the HSE had managed to misplace actual people tbh. I can just see the headline "mental patient found wandering on motorway because the HSE didn't know he existed"


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  • #7
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Gael Skinny Recording wrote: »
    Ahhh... so is it that important for a consultant to view these X-rays? I thought the doctor was adequately trained to view and have an opinion on them?

    I didn't realise it was like this at all.

    I'm confused on this point myself.

    Having talked to people, the bulk of the X-rays were taken for a certain function (people in ICU can sometimes get x-rayed very frequently, sometimes daily for periods), and were just glanced over for whatever purpose they were for, then put aside, rather than being sent on to a consultant.
    Apparently, 'best practice' requires that a consultant review all x-rays, even thought they very rarely will find anything (2 out of 58,000 in this case). The people I've spoken too say it was overhyped, but that it could have indicated that something worse was going wrong in the hospital, if basic procedures were ignored. Also, it's best to make absolutely sure that an x-ray is read correctly, so while your doctor will be right 99.99% of the time, a consultant improves the odds again.

    I think.


  • #8
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    sdonn wrote: »
    Wouldn't surprise me if the HSE had managed to misplace actual people tbh. I can just see the headline "mental patient found wandering on motorway because the HSE didn't know he existed"

    Brilliant :P

    I had a visit from a worker from the HSE today, and to be honest she was brilliant. She even sent me on an email she recieved with lots of job prospects as she found out I was unemployed.

    We should really learn to judge people as people and not what they are assosiated with. Not everyone in the HSE, FAS, Politics, Gardai, PS, are incompetent fools etc etc. The running of the organisations might be a joke, but the people are still personalities of their own. You know?


  • #9
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    sdonn wrote: »
    Wouldn't surprise me if the HSE had managed to misplace actual people tbh. I can just see the headline "mental patient found wandering on motorway because the HSE didn't know he existed"

    :P
    I'll never forget being near St. Vincent's hospital and seeing two nurses belt down the road after an old man in a nightie. Poor guy must have wandered off and out onto the road.

    They finally persuaded him to accompany them.


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