The socialistic hospital : all things to no one
True story: Having experienced a severe flare up in pain from a completely different location, I made the mistake of phoning Healthdirect… My reasoning was that, as I had not being doing anything overly strenuous and the pain was not coming from the normal damage areas, I should check it out as it was pretty intense. (I was strongly encouraged by others at this end as last time I left it I had a ruptured appendix… After rounds of questions, the operator insisted I should get to the Emergency Department. She asked for permission to send an ambulance… “No – it’s …