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Tammy Hams - lying in agony on hospital floor

By Richard Noone
The Daily Telegraph
January 30, 2009 12:00am

TAMMY Hams thought she was "going to die" when she was offered a blanket and told to lie on a waiting room floor because staff at her local hospital could not find her a bed.

Ms Hams was booked in for surgery at Wyong Hospital to remove possible cancerous lesions when doctors discovered a huge abscess causing "agonising pain".

The 29-year-old said she spent 3½ hours writhing in agony on the waiting room floor of the hospital's surgical ward on Wednesday before she was eventually given a bed.

Staff at the hospital "categorically deny" her claims.

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The incident comes amid yet another hospital outrage, in which a 24-year-old man was discharged from Griffith Hospital early on Monday after complaining of sinus pain.

The following day he again presented to the hospital and was flown immediately to Sydney's St Vincent's where he died from unknown causes.

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Greater Southern Health has launched an investigation into why he was discharged.

And in Dubbo, doctors are threatening to quit because they routinely run out of basic medications.

Ms Hams said her GP had been trying to get her into hospital since Friday when she began feeling stabbing pains in her stomach.

A biopsy four months ago revealed pre-cancerous lesions on her cervix, which if left would turn cancerous.

"I thought I was going to die," Ms Hams told The Daily Telegraph yesterday from her hospital bed.

"I have never been in that much pain in my life - it was agony."

She was booked-in for a hysterectomy and told to arrive at 9am.

Her mother Jenny Leatham said she was "crying and doubled-over in pain" and could not sit on the waiting room chairs or stand, so they pleaded for a bed.

"They gave her a blanket and said the best she could do was lie on the floor," Mr Leatham said.

"The staff were so nice and you could see they were upset about what was happening. This is just unfair, I'm not rubbishing the staff. There just wasn't enough beds.

"The system has to change."

A North Sydney Central Coast Health spokeswoman said an investigation found there was no shortage of beds and Ms Hams was "treated in a caring and timely manner".

"It is unacceptable for a patient to be expected to lie on the floor and staff on duty when Ms Hams arrived at the hospital deny making any such recommendation," the spokeswoman said.

The hospital argues she was assessed by an anaesthetist at 10.10am and that she asked for the blanket.

Mrs Leatham said by 12.30pm staff found her daughter a bed and she was operated on at 2pm.

When surgeons cut her open they discovered a huge abscess pushing on her cervix.

Unable to perform the hysterectomy they removed as much of the infection as they could and inserted a tube to drain it over the next seven to 10 days.

"If the abscess had burst while she was in the waiting room she would have died," Mrs Leatham said.

Wyong Hospital is just one of the state's many hospitals plagued with debt, bed shortages and a lack of specialist doctors.

Last week its emergency department - one of the busiest in the state - lost all but one of its specialist doctors to Gosford Hospital so it could retain its status as a teaching hospital.

Senior doctors at Dubbo Base Hospital threatened to walk off the job after they ran out of morphine because the hospital could not afford to pay pharmaceutical companies.

Patients in intensive care also sweltered for days in record temperatures because contractors could not be paid to fix the air conditioning.

The Greater Western Area Health Service reportedly owes more than $23 million to suppliers. Many are no longer prepared to provide food or medical equipment.

The situation across the state is expected to get far worse before it gets any better.

A report by auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers last month revealed the state's health budget would blow out by as much as $900 million by March if dramatic changes were not made

Before the Australian Labor Party introduced their socialised medicine aka Medicare the Australian health system was THE BEST health system in the world bar NONE.
Now we have the best THIRD WORLD health DONT CARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD BAR none.
AMERICA beware the Obama universal health care threat, look to Australia to see what happens when you SOCIALISE your health care.
The NSW Labor Government wont spend a dollar on the Manly Hospital simply because the land is worth millions of dollars and they have a parade of big business big Labor donors ready and waiting to get their hands on the land to develop into an exclusive residential development with million dollar views of Sydney Harbour, hey the minister himself said that Manly Hospital is a coastal Hospital, and does not need air conditioning as much as Hospitals in the Labor Party's electorates.
Mona Vale Hospital is the next on the list of the institutions that have to be dismantled on the basis of who benefits from them in Mona Vale Hospitals case it is a predominately anti Labor electorate, with a Hospital sitting on a billion dollar site that the Socialists simply cannot tolerate, they see the site as a place where they could build a holiday resort for Labor faithful and those wanting to be educated in correct thinking.

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Caution when calling "Talk Back " Radio.

Hello Aussie,

I want you to know about my experience re calling Sydney's # 1 Radio station 2GB.

I called the station and spoke to Frank Crook one Saturday morning some weeks back, I spoke negatively about Obama, I was derided and quickly cut off.

I phoned back in order to finish off what I wanted to say, I was repeatedly cut off by the call screener who I later identified himself as Mark Kennedy.
I was not allowed to finish my call to Frank Crook,I was not reconnected, I was however told that the New South Wales Police would be informed of "your details" by Mark Kennedy should I call 2GB again.

The right of Frank Crook and 2GB to decide what type of political calls go to air is certainly their perogative and whilst I would like to have unfettered acces to their air waves I understand that whilst they generally fall to the left point of view they do indeed give the majority viewpoint a reasonable hearing over "their" airwaves.

What I found unsetling, to say the least, was the threat of my "details" been forwarded to the New South Wales Police Department should I not stop calling 2GB.

2GB's majority owner, John Singleton, is a self confessed Australian Labor Party supporter and multi millionaire, callers to 2GB's open line talk back should be aware that should they want to offer, as in my case, a negative opinion of the now US President Barack Obama,or enunciate a negative opinion of Obama's Australian based # 1 sychophant and apologist, Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd that it could be that their "details" could very well be forwarded to the New South Wales Police Department.

As of time of writing I have not been visited by the NSW Police Department or am I aware of any action taken by them against me because of my call to Frank Crook & radio 2GB, however I find it unsettling to think that a radio station that promotes itself as a voice of the majority, and voice of the people, would threaten to forward my or anyone elses "details" to the New South Wales Police Force when it deemed my / our views were contrary to the views of the station management or their presenter.

Caution remember when calling a talk back radio station and talking on air on whatever subject your "details" as in your phone number and name are retained by the station on their computer data base, they have your name and address and phone number in their data base that can be given to any one they deem should have have it along with the content of your call to them or any other data that the call screener or presenter deems fit to enter against your "DETAILS"

Cheers ANON.