'It's going to cost people's lives': patients speak out after hospital changes

If I had to decide who to believe in this story, I think I will choose to believe the numerous cardiologists, both public and private who are at the coal face dealing with the patients every day instead of the bureaucrat attempting to justify their new system and covering for their superiors bad decisions. These doctors are not making up stories to get a headline in a newspaper. Over the past 15 years the stories about the health system in Canberra have only gotten worse. It was the maternity care years ago, as well as working conditions at various hospitals, leading in one case to a nurse taking their own life and blaming the management of the hospital and now cardiology. What's next CHS?

We First-world people are never satisfied with the extent of our health care or policing, yet we object strongly to paying more tax to fund these services.

Most of humanity could only dream of the way we pamper ourselves while, at least in the health context, taking few if any preventative measures. A greater focus on our eating habits, our weight and our exercise regimes would see two-thirds of our unhappy cardiologists driving taxis for a living.

What an interesting article highlighting the issues of health 'care' in Cbr. We have patients asking for life Saving treatment and ongoing medical care. Specialists requesting, for patients, hospital-level scans and procedures. And the Health Service's response with bureaucratic talk about waiting list numbers & times and process improvement - no mention of positive or negative patient outcomes or the effect of delays on Individual 'persons' - if you're a patient waiting for care, be thankful you're on a waiting list and Wait your time.