@boris1gary wrote:
@diamond-halo wrote:
Our emergency Departments here on the Gold Coast were so overcrowded, that we now have a service where doctors come to the house for free to treat non critical illnesses (and other things too) If you tell the lady on the phione it is heart, they call you an ambulance, but for anything else, they just send out a doctor (after hours service)
we have a bulk billing radio Dr service that's available after hours and weekends. Hardly anyone seems to know about it, I had to call them out and I had $120 sitting on the table waiting to pay, he whipped out one of those card machines for my medicare card, I was pleasantly surprised.
I think it's great, if i have a sick kid vomiting everywhere, the last place I want to be is sitting in the public hospital waiting room for hours on end. would much rather them at home in their beds or their own bathrooms whilst they waited for the doctor to see them, and then, if the doc thinks they need a hospital, then take them in.
Our private hospital costs minimum $240, just to go through accident and emergency, that's without any tests and is not covered by medicare or health fund (tests are charged separately) so before I go there, i really want to make sure that my kid is sick and not just 'trying one on".
It;'s not until you are actually admitted that the health fund kicks in.
5 years ago, a few days after Little Crikey got out of hospital, Middle fella got really crook and was crying inn pain. Scared that he had what the little girl had, we rushed him straight to hospital where they kept him in hospital for 3 days in the emergency department (as they couldn't find anything wriong with him and woiuldn't allow the peady to admit him until they could) and it cost $3000 to find out the kid was constipated.
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
