It's a sorry state of affairs. Nobody wants to go to hospital at the best of times. But now, they've really made them places to avoid at all costs. But what to do in case of major trauma, or urgently needed care?
I commiserate with the older man who was held in hospital against his will. He was evidently fine enough and wanted to go home! Makes you wonder, as you pointed out, is going to hospital the same as going to prison these days?? I understand because I don't EVER want to go back to hospital, after my son had stitches for his leg back in Feb 2020 (before the covid madness began!) and they were going to inject him with DTP against our wishes because he was unvaccinated and had fallen near animal poop (the same type type of poop he'd hung around with for the previous 3+ years in the paddocks and probably already had antibodies to tetanus...). Turns out that for an unvaccinated person, the BEST thing to give them are tetanus immunoglobulins (IGs) NOT the DTP if there's a risk of tetanus spores (but that's an anaerobic bacteria, and his wound was bleeding a lot, so there was lots of oxygen there...but hey, they're only medical swine, what would they know?!?!). Fast-thinking hubby found the IGs online, and then the stupid 'doctors' said, yes, that would be fine. THEN they wanted to jab it in my son's cannula, and I sped-read the IGs leaflet and it said 'risk of anaphylactic shock' doing it that way, and this was in a kid who's HAD anaphylaxis multiple times with his allergy to dairy, which they knew, and so I said NOT in the cannula!! So they did it in his shoulder instead.
My god. It's a wonder people leave hospital alive with this level of incompetence (oh wait, isn't a hospital the most 'popular' place to die?!). I'm glad the older man could leave - but he could only leave after he'd spent a week imprisoned there, and we could leave too, but only after WE figured out the best course of action!
There's something very wrong with 'medical care' in this country. VERY wrong.
It's a sorry state of affairs. Nobody wants to go to hospital at the best of times. But now, they've really made them places to avoid at all costs. But what to do in case of major trauma, or urgently needed care?
I commiserate with the older man who was held in hospital against his will. He was evidently fine enough and wanted to go home! Makes you wonder, as you pointed out, is going to hospital the same as going to prison these days?? I understand because I don't EVER want to go back to hospital, after my son had stitches for his leg back in Feb 2020 (before the covid madness began!) and they were going to inject him with DTP against our wishes because he was unvaccinated and had fallen near animal poop (the same type type of poop he'd hung around with for the previous 3+ years in the paddocks and probably already had antibodies to tetanus...). Turns out that for an unvaccinated person, the BEST thing to give them are tetanus immunoglobulins (IGs) NOT the DTP if there's a risk of tetanus spores (but that's an anaerobic bacteria, and his wound was bleeding a lot, so there was lots of oxygen there...but hey, they're only medical swine, what would they know?!?!). Fast-thinking hubby found the IGs online, and then the stupid 'doctors' said, yes, that would be fine. THEN they wanted to jab it in my son's cannula, and I sped-read the IGs leaflet and it said 'risk of anaphylactic shock' doing it that way, and this was in a kid who's HAD anaphylaxis multiple times with his allergy to dairy, which they knew, and so I said NOT in the cannula!! So they did it in his shoulder instead.
My god. It's a wonder people leave hospital alive with this level of incompetence (oh wait, isn't a hospital the most 'popular' place to die?!). I'm glad the older man could leave - but he could only leave after he'd spent a week imprisoned there, and we could leave too, but only after WE figured out the best course of action!
There's something very wrong with 'medical care' in this country. VERY wrong.
It is so broken that the only way to fix it is to totally destroy it and start again.
It seems everything needs to be destroyed and rebuilt right now... :-(