Dally wrote:
Having spent most of Saturday in two hospital A&E departments, a number of things struck me:
1. When I used to go years ago you could see why people were there - broken limbs, blood eveywhere, etc. Nowadays, they are jam packed but not with that sort of case.
2. Mrs Dally thinks it's because doctors no longer do out of hours work and so people with minor ailments go to A&E.
3. White, middle class British types are under-represented - presumably because they are risk-averse, play by the rules, etc.
4. On Saturday evening the place we were at was rammed and Mrs D counted only 8 white people, 5 of whom were Polish. None of the staff were white and English. The one white nurse was Irish, all other nurses / doctors were from ethnic "minorities" (sic).
5. Many self-inflicted case - men dangerously drunk at 2.00pm, and vomitting, for example.
1/ no idea what you are getting at, but saurday is still the main sporting day, hence, the more chance of injury.
2/ doctors still work out of hours, but some do private work aswell, others think that working 60+ hours/ week is enough.
3/ white middle/class are proberley private protected ( health-wise)
4/ 8 people in A+E and the place was rammed???? On a saturday? Staff werent white or English because they were neither. Obviously Asians who had desires to be doctors and nurses, and thus, had undertaken the training needed to do so.
5/ Because we have a NHS, everyone is entitalled to mediacal help, though I must agree, druggies can rot in their cess for all I care.
