Patientline

In article , Alan White
scribeth thus
On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:51:37 +0100, "Light of Aria"
wrote:

I think I can say I'd rather die than spend one night in an NHS hospital...

Last November I had the misfortune to slip on the stairs. When I finally
arrived at the local A & E, an hour and twenty minutes away and four
hours later, I was left on a trolley in a public corridor for an hour in
considerable pain and with a bursting bladder (I hadn't urinated for
about eight hours) before I could get anyone to attend to me. I then had
the pleasure of holding a very full papier mache pee bottle on my tummy
for another hour before a consultant relieved me of it. All this time
Lesley wasn't allowed to come and see me because they were 'too busy'. I
was eventually diagnosed as having severe damage to the soft tissues in
the lower right quadrant of my back. Three weeks later, my GP also
diagnosed a broken rib.

The ambulance paramedics were superb.


Wonder why they don't have BUPA A&E depts;?..

--
Tony Sayer

Doug Paulley wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:16:38 +0100, Rod
wrote:

A bit OT, but does Patientline (or any other system) support wireless
internet access in hospitals these days?

not currently

I know both partner and self
would feel as if we had undergone double arm amputation AND multiple
lobotomies if we couldn't use the internet.

You can use the Patientline "web" "access" that comes "free" with the
TV (at £7 for 3 days).

It's heavily crippled, though. It's Mozilla 4.0 on Windows CE, with no
add-ins installed (e.g. Flash or Adobe Reader), crippled by security
(such that many forms don't work) and crawlingly slow, and with the
world's most awful keypad and "nipple" mouse.

Better than nothing, but only just.

Whenever I go in, I always have to make a call as to whether or not to
take my laptop. With my laptop plugged into their RF system I have
Freeview and analogue TV, also if I can find signal I have Internet
access, either using my inclusive data allowance or an Orange SIM with
their £1 a day "all you can eat" Internet. Slow but useable and
decidedly cheaper than Patientline, plus I can watch DVDs etc.

Oh dear - doesn't sound too good. Thanks.


--
Rod

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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On 26/05/2008 14:51, Light of Aria wrote:

I think I can say I'd rather die than spend one night in an NHS
hospital... BUPA is a different matter of course.

Hopefully someone will remember that if/when you can't afford BUPA.



I don't have BUPA now. I did have an operation under BUPA a few years ago.
It was exactly the same consultant as the NHS one, except the hospital was
clean, air-conditioned, the nurses meet you at the front door, and they take
your credit card imprint when you arrive.

I'm all for NHS cut backs. The NHS should be closed down and replaced with
private organisations... if one can just sort out the corruption and
injustice of the insurance crime industry.

"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:51:37 +0100, "Light of Aria"
wrote:

I think I can say I'd rather die than spend one night in an NHS
hospital...

Last November I had the misfortune to slip on the stairs. When I finally
arrived at the local A & E, an hour and twenty minutes away and four
hours later, I was left on a trolley in a public corridor for an hour in
considerable pain and with a bursting bladder (I hadn't urinated for
about eight hours) before I could get anyone to attend to me. I then had
the pleasure of holding a very full papier mache pee bottle on my tummy
for another hour before a consultant relieved me of it. All this time
Lesley wasn't allowed to come and see me because they were 'too busy'. I
was eventually diagnosed as having severe damage to the soft tissues in
the lower right quadrant of my back. Three weeks later, my GP also
diagnosed a broken rib.

The ambulance paramedics were superb.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in
Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather



Same sort of thing happened to me 2 years ago after I broke a toe following
being knocked off my cycle by some ill-educated car driver crazy fool.

The NHS: slow, expensive, vague diagnostics, disinterested, dirty.

If only the NHS gave the same quality of care as my solictor did. That's the
irony: More time and money was spent just on the medical evidence for my law
suit against the car driver's insurance company than on my entire
"treatment" or the point of educating the inept driver in the first place.

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Alan White
scribeth thus
On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:51:37 +0100, "Light of Aria"
wrote:

I think I can say I'd rather die than spend one night in an NHS
hospital...

Last November I had the misfortune to slip on the stairs. When I finally
arrived at the local A & E, an hour and twenty minutes away and four
hours later, I was left on a trolley in a public corridor for an hour in
considerable pain and with a bursting bladder (I hadn't urinated for
about eight hours) before I could get anyone to attend to me. I then had
the pleasure of holding a very full papier mache pee bottle on my tummy
for another hour before a consultant relieved me of it. All this time
Lesley wasn't allowed to come and see me because they were 'too busy'. I
was eventually diagnosed as having severe damage to the soft tissues in
the lower right quadrant of my back. Three weeks later, my GP also
diagnosed a broken rib.

The ambulance paramedics were superb.


Wonder why they don't have BUPA A&E depts;?..

--
Tony Sayer




I wish they did.

If it cost people £350 to be given a paper bag to throw up in, the vomit
soaked alcoholic Neanderthals that clog up the UK's A&Es would disappear
over-night (from BUPA hospitals anyway).

Another factor would be, more expensive A&E, would drive up the the cost of
motor insurance, which would lead to better driver education which would
lead to reduced collateral damage.

On 26 May, 00:06, "Bill Wright" wrote:

Patientline and the 'other one' (can't remember the name) are hated by staff
and patients alike. The last time Hil was in the ozzie I was taking her soap
operas in on DVDs and she was watching then on a little player. Several
other people in the ward were doing the same thing. Patientline take-up in
that ward was zero.

I remember your posts Bill. Did the DVD players have to be battery
operated? Do you think a laptop would be OK?

A friend is in hospital at the moment, and Patientline (the cost and
the down time) is becoming a real pain. That and the car park - it
seems like a tax on ill people (and their relatives!).

Cheers,
David.

wrote in message
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On 26 May, 00:06, "Bill Wright" wrote:
I remember your posts Bill. Did the DVD players have to be battery
operated? Do you think a laptop would be OK?

I suppose it depends on the regime. We had a battery player which was
charged up on the quiet, so as to avoid the ozzie taking the unit away to
test it for safety (which would have taken 6 months probably).


A friend is in hospital at the moment, and Patientline (the cost and
the down time) is becoming a real pain. That and the car park - it
seems like a tax on ill people (and their relatives!).
I usually have a look round the area and find some free parking. I know that
there isn't any near some ozzies though.

Bill