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the ABC and DEF of Healthcare and HSE
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so sick in ireland
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I contend
that to understand the crisis of the Irish healthcare system it is mandatory to
be poor, vulnerable, a woman and single or have spent a dash in psychiatry as a
patient.
All will
qualify you to understand the Irish systems we have at present and indeed
getting worse.
You only
need an extra tutorial in having an Insurance policy that is next to worthless
but it will teach you a little extra that adds to the PhD.
Lets be
fair to the Public health care system and say the crisis is not with the
public. That is, the vulnerable, poor,
sick, single, female or those with a smash of experience in the psychiatric
system.
Lets be
fair too, it’s not the fault of the Private Healthcare system that they too are
under pressure.
I wish to
place the blame first so we get that out of the way – and thus pave the way for
the ‘voice of the expert in all of this – the poor, sick, single lady who once
spent an errant jaunt in the mental health system of Ireland’ (which also
requires a lengthy tome in its dysfunctionality).
The blame
is governance and inequality and a certain belief beyond which we seem unable
to go.
Governance
has to be blamed for if it was good, we would not have such a crisis and such a
mess.
I also put
squarely the blame on allowing the divide to exist or co-exist of inhumane
inequalities in the rights to having healthcare in the country where the
constitution claim we all as a nation have equal rights, yet we do not.
There are
no equal rights. It isn’t there and
there is no legal structure in place to say we have the right to healthcare at
present.
You can
have healthcare if you are wealthy and the rest is by a sort of ‘stroking’ and
discretion.
Be wary
though of upsetting the consultants, they have the full power to deny your
fundamental rights to having anything at all, and they will make you sweat for
everything despite a tad bit of lick arse.
The divide
between public and private care is huge, but now increasingly the flocks once
in the public sector are swamping the private sector.
This now
leaves many of us with no place to go. It is also made wider with the ability
of Insurance suppliers demanding exhorbitant monies for policies riddled with
loopholes and ‘get out’ clauses for the care you need.
We should
never put in place a means to get healthcare by payment alone.
The country
is not a wealthy one per se and I see this as a cohersion by the state through
fear. We have every right to be fearful.
To say if
you can pay you will get healthcare falsifies the principals, which the state
was founded upon.
The country
a republic, was for all the citizens of the state. We had been through oppressive oversight from
superior empire state control. We
recognized the right to be free.
Yet we, now,
do not recognize the right to be free of inequality. We do not see healthcare as a republican
ideal and nor as refusal of freedom from oppressive oversight.
It is NOW
mandated that unless you have money you will not be cared for in this state of
the Republic of Ireland.
If you are
vulnerable, female, single, and poor you are open to abuse which is a societal
tactic the Irish are so well used to by now having been abused for centuries
before the foundation of the state.
We cannot
yet call ourselves free if we cannot ride ourselves of the culture of abuse.
When we
have waiting lists for a consultant leaving sick on lists for years some lists
touching six years in fact before you face an expert we should know we are in
deep trouble.
When we see
that if you can pick up the phone give over your insurance policy number an
appointment can be arranged at best within a week or at worst within a
month. We know we are in trouble.
The idea
you can use austerity as the excuse that cuts have to be made is also erroneous
and wrong.
If you cut
healthcare now you are shoring up even worse physical and mental health
problems in the future.
Each person
ignored and denied healthcare will get worse quicker and some do not get better
if left too long, at all. This is a burden
on the state but has been sanctioned by the state. The state will eventually pay out far more to
support these very sick individuals sooner rather than later and more so rather
than less so.
This, the
state has been informed about.
They know
what they are facing by the lack of healthcare now and the crisis we have
allowed presently means all this is to become.
The biggest
fall out to the crisis of healthcare has been to the individual sick.
I class
those at risk being the vulnerable, isolated, unsupported mainly single women
and mentally ill as being particularly prone to being virtually attacked for
being sick and demanding of health care and requesting their needs be met.
Countless
examples of abuse of power can be named and documented through articles we see
daily on disability forums, online journals and through other paper media. The litany of abuses are rife, and you will
find those subjected to abuse are the category I name alongside the
intellectually impaired.
There is a
great degree of ‘cherry picking’ now within the confraternity of the
consultants base. They can and do
without sanction, dismiss a sick person for being demanding, demanding to have
personal needs met and their own personal healthcare put in place.
In a
structure of chaos mistakes are being made daily in the system and wise
patients staying on top of their personal file can see where mistakes are made
and if they are serious will mean you face the consultant with these mistakes, you are then subjected to prompt dismissal and
labeling and abuse.
These are
all tactics to protect the powerful against their negligence and their need to
keep a well paid job and do a job unhindered by the pesky plebs.
If they do
a bad job there isn’t anything you can do we are rudderless through legislation
for our rights.
Again we
have no legal structures in place to face a very powerful body of men usually,
who do bad things against the innocents in this state.
Within the
structure of healthcare we also have a very close knit community of specialists
and they have the means to process information which can be subject to deep
suspicion from the client base.
If you are
personally wronged, and you face the consultant they can pick up the phone and
lambast you to anyone. Its proven the
bad blood built up between sick and their doctors is one which should never
occur but does all too regularly, simply because you ask to be cared for, the
system is chaotic mistakes are made and the system is chaotic there are no
rules anymore or guidelines or doctors to deal with it all.
Mistakes
should not be made, there should be a mechanism to resolve painful issues of
relationship dynamic and all move on to greener pastures.
This
doesn’t happen. There is no mechanism
to allow an easy working bond between patient and doctor in Ireland.
It is wide
open to vast abuses of power and there is a gulf of ‘them and us’ I have not
seen in other countries at all to date.
The culture
of ‘tell all’ to your peers here is huge.
Anything
can go from the lowly small time pros to the big shots at the speed of concord
and so a single lady very ill can be perceived in a shot as a person to be
avoided.
No one will
ever believe her.
They tend
to blame at a rapid rate, the usual culture of abuse so very easy to use, so
readily instinctually drafted by genetic processing down the generations of abuse
by others visited upon the Irish state and mentality. Oppression was viewed then as being so well
done by the british we have adopted it.
We have
allowed the abuse of power seep through the pores by osmosis and allow it to be
an acceptable tool to oppose your little worthless patients and it allows
alarming power.
The level
of power now of consultants is huge.
In fact
this power is so great not only consultants have it as a tool but everyone in
the health system has it.
Backed
against a wall of dysfunction there is no tool left for the state to use other
than abuse the power they hold over the citizens.
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| fighting back is the only way |
It denies
us any rights to fair practice.
The human
rights and equality commission has been decimated of personnel and function in
recent years.
We have no
real human rights for those who are disabled and sick.
There is no
legal framework to fight abuse
We have not
even got this fully enshrined in the constitution.
You cannot
face them in any shape or form, nor can you go to the courts and do it either
because the court system is also based on money and ability to pay for the
justice you deserve.
You cannot
go to Europe because they require you to exhaust the avenues open in the state of
origin, but if you cannot use these as the first steps you cannot use European
laws and no one here will assist the poor to do so.
We have now
in Ireland a state that allows a basic ‘free for all.’
Over and
above those who are secure knowing that they can walk in and get help because
they have power or money the rest can rot in hell and considerable pain and
anquish with no quality of life at all.
It doesn’t
even work in the private sector either because having a policy is not
necessarily a safe guard that you will get the help you need.
The
policies are wrapped around ‘add ons’ and ‘exceptions to the rule.’
You may be
able to afford the famous policy but cannot afford the consultants fees and can
only get back a certain amount, or may be restricted what your policy will
cover. It’s a very cleverly designed
document allowing the insurance companies to maximize their gains allowing them
the right to minimize their costs offset by the cost of the policies.
They are
racking in the money.
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| stats will show where we stand and its not looking good. It is becoming harder and more chaotic |
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| the stats say it all, watch out for holy ireland in these, expert documented stats |
This
country is not being served well by this awful divisive divide.
It doesn’t
work.
It will and
cannot ever work.
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| once we were happier, hopeful and engaged. at my twins conferring for doctorate i see her being bullied and butchered by the irish state healthcare systems. This is not what she was used to in the UK, ever. |
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| I can tell you for sure, she doesnt think it fortunate to come home to the country she loved and left 45yrs to abusive practise and a terrible dangerous healthcare system. she has instant regrets about coming back. |
Health is
one such thing that cannot be a commodity or a money making racket.
It has
become an obscene racket and at any cost to state, power, abuse, insurance,
economics and dynamic.
It doesn’t
serve best healthcare.
People like
myself go through life on the edge.
You are
very sick and powerless.
You have an
insurance policy and yet it gives you little and you can use it infrequently.
You have to
rely on a public service which is discretionary and you can be years trying to
find a way to even get a diagnosis because consultants can withdraw the ability
to allow a diagnosis if peeved by their patients, see above.
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| left to lanquish in pain, forgotten and poor |
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| not a figment of imagination, you feel it and spot it instantly. |
This has
now occurred for two women facing a consultant with his faults, his mistakes
and his lack of interest.
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| you seek it here, you seek it there, you seek it everywhere. at the end of the day a grind of a fight for medical and community healthcare services is taking its toll on us two. this is nothing short of neglect and abuse. |
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| you get through one but face another around the corner and another never ending fight. |
It means in
essence he couldn’t care a toss and its no more than a paper exercise, he wants
an easy life, make money and move on.
You are but
a speck in his eye.
There you
will remain.
The bond of
trust long gone in Irish healthcare by two women in wicklow.
Ireland is
sinking into an immoral depravity and we all see it and feel helpless.
All the
scandals of the day are laid out in plain lingo from the Gards to the mother
and baby homes, Irish water but never healthcare.
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| permanently tired of it all, but with great company |
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| you are barely able to function at time so harsh is the trauma. comfort comes in small parcels, furballs. |
We have
been squashed in protest.
We feel
imbeciles to protest.
We feel
feeble in protest.
The people
have been crushed.
They are
now accepting the crumbs from the table because there seems no answers.
The only
answer I see to the collective response of abuse of power and inequality is through
protests and civil disobedience.
The poor people
of Ireland ejected the greatest power of world dominance the Imperial state of
the British Kingdom, we did this so we can do this too.
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| some kind of bird of what? as i trawl the darkness in the corridors at night in a strange hospital. |
We are not
feeble in thinking. We have great powers
of persuasion and we are cute as the devil.
We are so
cute I tell you we can persuade someone to believe that possibly the greatest
kingdom that ever lived is that of the Irish ‘land of saints and scholars’.
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| there is a madness in your head, the despair thats in it. There is a madness on the heads of those who rule and there is a stuffed icon of Irish in the hilarity of pretence, we are but stuffed. |
Scratch the
surface we are neither and never were.
We were
poor, we were dirt poor, we survived through a system of leeching off the one
even poorer or buttering up the one better off then oneself.
Either way
we got our way through devious means, and we continue to do this at the highest
levels.
The problem
is, when downtrodden and sick its hard to fight that hard in modern times and
powerful influences.
We have
lost our moral code and ethical beliefs that all people are equal and
united. Some definitely count now more
so than others.
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| you were a mess when you came to london last year, the consultant reminds me. this after my first 'out' he noted i had improved but declared i was a walking wreck so sick was i. |
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| my first 'out' under the E112 gave terrific first diagnosis and furthered the knowledge of what is wrong, but still no definitive answers, such is the journey of those with rare diseases in ireland and the awful battles we have to go through |
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| lighting up the light in our three weeks state at a major hospital in the UK, still more work needs to be done they say - ireland ignores this advice for the past two years. |
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| the singing ambulance man in a top centre of excellence in London UK |
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| it is imperative you leave ireland to get the help you need, what if you are stuck and cannot get out again? our situation right now is Medical entrapment, emprisonment by the state consultants. we cannot get out at present - another fight, daily grind of fight |
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| in a UK hospital in a bed opposite myself is my identical twin, our need is the change of the diagnosis, which is our right according to the medical council of ireland but that is not what the consultants believe. we do not enjoy medical imprisonment in a state that doesnt care a toss. |
We are
moving and shifting to a dangerous place.
We are
moving away from the common good to the common bad.
We are
moving over a precipice and it’s not a pleasant and easy ride.
