Sunday, October 29, 2006

How refreshing

Signal 1 call to a suburban doctor's surgery for "chest pain". Found the patient in a quiet room, with somebody looking after him, on oxygen, a 12 lead ECG completed, cannulated with pain relief and nitrates being given. And to cap it all off, there was a doctor in attendance who was calm, gave a good handover and didn't appear impatient to go running off to attend to the crowd in the waiting room. I was stunned.

Sigh, so young and so jaded already....


This really restored my faith that there actually are some quality doctors out there who are working in their patient's best interests. I mean of course they are out there, but we so often seem to go to the dud ones. Anyway, I was chuffed and thanked the doc repeatedly. Maybe I overdid it, but if she thought I was a tool, she did a good job of hiding it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

what, and the o2 was on more than 4 lpm!!?? And it wasn't delivered out of an old paediatric therapy mask? Truly amazing...
EffenQambo

Anonymous said...

what, and the o2 was on more than 4 lpm!!?? And it wasn't delivered out of an old paediatric therapy mask? Truly amazing...
EffenQambo

Altissima said...

Rob, I would be interested to hear your response to the article that appeared in Sunday's Age:
Ambulance crisis as 'killer' shifts take toll.
MELBOURNE is losing some of its most highly trained and experienced ambulance paramedics because of what they say is a dangerously heavy workload, an inflexible "killer" roster and a dispatch system that sends them to inappropriate "nonsense" cases...
Full article can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/y7czbv