Two patients limp into two different medical surgeries with the similar complaints.
Both have a great deal of trouble walking, both are in considerable pain and appear to need a hip replacement. This is later confirmed following all of the relevant examination processes.
Patient 'A' is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the very next week.
Patient 'B' sees his family doctor after waiting over a week for an appointment after a telephone consultation. Then waits four months to see a specialist, then after another 3 months gets x-rays completed. These aren't reviewed for another 6 weeks and finally surgery is scheduled for 9 months from that time.
Why the different treatment for the two patients?
About Me
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- I know enough to know that at 04.00am it gets dark out on the streets. It has done this for the last twenty odd years, to my knowledge and will probably continue for the forseeable future. At some stage in this 'future' I shall retire and probably won't give a damn if it still gets dark at 04.00am. Until then I shall be out there, somewhere, lurking in the shadows because someone, somewhere will be doing stuff they shouldn't and then, well then I will introduce myself. In the meanwhile I shall try to remain sane and remember why I joined in the first place and try to ignore all the people who piss me off by making the job more complicated than it should be.
7 comments:
Patient A is an MP; patient B isn't!
(Cynical, am I not?)
I hope you don't mind if I say that it's good to see you posting again. I've missed you.
Well I'd guess that patient B lives somewhere near me. It took ruddy months to get my shoulder scanned. Scan was 11 months ago, still waiting for anyone to contact me and tell me whether my arm is going to fall off.
Was patient A a dog and patient B a taxpayer?
Patient A pays for private medical care on top of his national insurance so he can bypass the NHS, whereas patient B has to rely purely on the governments initiatives and cost cutting to slipstream his way to better healthcare??
One had already given up on the NHS the other one will do so shortly?
patient A's name starts with Rover
Patient A is in Scotland.
Patient B is in Wales or England.
Postcode lottery health service ?
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