Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Good lord! That is really scary. It's everywhere.

Yes. It's why so many Aussies are checking in with each other. And why some may be a little ratty. It is worrying & our summer hasn't begun yet.

 

[Kris5902]

100% agree. It's a pretty good system. I'd prefer if it were better resourced in SA (3 deaths this year from ramped ambulances) but it's pretty good. Do they ramp ambulances in Qld ribh?

That almost never happens here in Canada. If you’re low priority you could wait a very long time, but the Ambulances get discharged immediately and through Triage before almost all walk ins to ER’s. There maybe bed shortages, and people may be parked in the hallways on stretchers, but it’s based on a priority basis. We have walked in to an ER, gone straight to the triage counter and almost as fast as you can say “super ventricular tachycardia with arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation” they were whisking Andrew off to Zap him back to a normal heart rhythm. They had him under the defibrillator in less than 5 minutes. Getting out is usually the problem... they want to keep him for hours waiting on the bloodwork.

Granted, when my back was thrown out to the point I couldn’t move, it took over an hour for the ambulance, and I was 4 hours at the hospital before I saw the ER Dr.. But that wasn’t life threatening. Vomiting in the waiting room is also usually a fast track to treatment (it can set off a chain reaction and no one wants to clean it up). I think it also depends a lot on the Hospital here, the one where my mom was living in Northern BC had some very poor ER dr’s, she was sent her home and told to take some Tylenol as her feet were turning black and green due to a vascular problem. Once she got in to her family Dr they had her ambulances back to the hospital and Air ambulanced down to Vancouver in a few hours for emergency surgery. She was in hospital for over a month at absolutely no charge to us.

The flip side is that people don't usually die while waiting to have heart surgery here because there is no capacity. The government does not decide if you can have a knee replacement or not. I have worked with many Candians who always take the US health insurance and then come to the US for their healthcare. That means they are willing to pay to get out of the system they pay taxes for. Essentially paying twice for healthcare.

There are many things to dislike about our healthcare system but I have yet to see the perfect system anywhere and I have been in the healthcare business both as a provider and a vendor for over 30 years.

Those are Canadians wanting to jump the queue most often, and with the financial means to have their surgery done in the USA. If it’s a necessary surgery it will get done, maybe not as quickly as some people would like though. And yes, a lot of those knee and hip replacements do get delayed, but if you’re having a stroke, a heart attack, or have a car accident it doesn’t ruin you financially. My mother’s surgery was delayed 3 or 4 times for more pressing ones, but she still had it a few days after being flown across the province for it, and at no charge.

I agree no system is perfect, and it would be nice if Government looked at the bigger picture more often. Healthcare shouldn’t be treated like a for profit business though in my opinion. I take extra insurance when I travel because I know should something catastrophic happen, there’s no way I could afford to say, break my arm or leg while down there. It’s a scary prospect for me, and I can’t imagine how lower income Americans must feel living with it.

 

[Kris5902]

For non~Aussies. This is what our fire crisis looks like.
The red ones are our newest fires. Wind & heat in many states is not helping the situation.
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That is terrifying! Stay safe everyone.

 

[Ribh]

That is terrifying! Stay safe everyone.

All the Aussies who normally comment here are safe & nowhere near fire zones. Butterscotchbitesfinger is tracking her fire progress here [in case you're interested]:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...e-your-chickens.1339325/page-17#post-21959869

 

[Ribh]

That almost never happens here in Canada. If you’re low priority you could wait a very long time, but the Ambulances get discharged immediately and through Triage before almost all walk ins to ER’s. There maybe bed shortages, and people may be parked in the hallways on stretchers, but it’s based on a priority basis. We have walked in to an ER, gone straight to the triage counter and almost as fast as you can say “super ventricular tachycardia with arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation” they were whisking Andrew off to Zap him back to a normal heart rhythm. They had him under the defibrillator in less than 5 minutes. Getting out is usually the problem... they want to keep him for hours waiting on the bloodwork.

Granted, when my back was thrown out to the point I couldn’t move, it took over an hour for the ambulance, and I was 4 hours at the hospital before I saw the ER Dr.. But that wasn’t life threatening. Vomiting in the waiting room is also usually a fast track to treatment (it can set off a chain reaction and no one wants to clean it up). I think it also depends a lot on the Hospital here, the one where my mom was living in Northern BC had some very poor ER dr’s, she was sent her home and told to take some Tylenol as her feet were turning black and green due to a vascular problem. Once she got in to her family Dr they had her ambulances back to the hospital and Air ambulanced down to Vancouver in a few hours for emergency surgery. She was in hospital for over a month at absolutely no charge to us.



Those are Canadians wanting to jump the queue most often, and with the financial means to have their surgery done in the USA. If it’s a necessary surgery it will get done, maybe not as quickly as some people would like though. And yes, a lot of those knee and hip replacements do get delayed, but if you’re having a stroke, a heart attack, or have a car accident it doesn’t ruin you financially. My mother’s surgery was delayed 3 or 4 times for more pressing ones, but she still had it a few days after being flown across the province for it, and at no charge.

I agree no system is perfect, and it would be nice if Government looked at the bigger picture more often. Healthcare shouldn’t be treated like a for profit business though in my opinion. I take extra insurance when I travel because I know should something catastrophic happen, there’s no way I could afford to say, break my arm or leg while down there. It’s a scary prospect for me, and I can’t imagine how lower income Americans must feel living with it.

It sounds quite like our system. We are now charged a small fee on taxable income to cover ambulance travel [should you ever need it] & I'm ok with that as ambulance costs could be catastrophic. We needed one for snake bite [also a good que jumping tactic ] & it really was exorbitant.

 

[Kris5902]

It sounds quite like our system. We are now charged a small fee on taxable income to cover ambulance travel [should you ever need it] & I'm ok with that as ambulance costs could be catastrophic. We needed one for snake bite [also a good que jumping tactic ] & it really was exorbitant.

“We needed one for snake bite [also a good que jumping tactic ]”
I think I’ll Stick to occasionally losing my dinner, thanks! Granted a snake bite here might break the skin little, maybe, and that’s about it. Except for Kelowna, they have some venomous pretties there...

 

[Ribh]

“We needed one for snake bite [also a good que jumping tactic ]”
I think I’ll Stick to occasionally losing my dinner, thanks! Granted a snake bite here might break the skin little, maybe, and that’s about it. Except for Kelowna, they have some venomous pretties there...

Well, the lad had puncture marks so I took the necessary precautions but it was probably a legless lizard. A whole heap of fuss & pother for nothing really ~ but you can't take chances with our wildlife. He wasn't sure & so...

 

[drumstick diva]

snakes !!

 

[Ribh]

I spoke too soon. Let back into the coop this afternoon she headed straight for a nesting box!
So she is in the run on her own cooling off.
And chose to roost on the mulch bag to be as close to the flock as possible.

I'm about to go & put her up on a roost for the night & hope for an attitude adjustment by the morning.​

 

[Kris5902]

I spoke too soon. Let back into the coop this afternoon she headed straight for a nesting box!
So she is in the run on her own cooling off.
And chose to roost on the mulch bag to be as close to the flock as possible.

I'm about to go & put her up on a roost for the night & hope for an attitude adjustment by the morning.​

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She’s so fluffy and adorable!!!