Thread: Your Doctor - an opinion I think worth considering

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Telehealth is a good thing as it keeps people in touch with their doctors, particularly if they are remote or immobile so having to visit the surgery is difficult. Glad to see this week's announcement it is being reinstated, after being axed by the previous government.
For example, this week I needed prescriptions renewed, but my GP is fully booked to early November. A phone call to check my condition had not changed and the prescriptions were texted to my phone. Very efficient.

BTW last time I checked the Medicare levy only covered about half the actual cost of Medicare, so I support the levy being raised, since we would know it was all going into health.
I also think the Medicare rebate to doctors should be unfrozen, which should result in more bulk billing.
I also believe the federal share of public health funding should be restored to 50%, instead of expecting the states to cover 60%, to fund more beds and reduce ambulance ramping.
More beds would be released if more aged care places were funded, rather than having several thousand hospital beds (500 in Qld alone) filled with elderly people who are too frail to be sent home and should be in nursing homes.

Retired hey Mick?

I just love paying Medicare 1 & 2 twice in our household.
Plus full private cover..

Only to go to A&E for “traumatic amputation” surgery…
And as I’m checking out the staff ask me if I’m willing to pay my excess and put my treatment on insurance

Let’s see…
Shared room with a suicidal occupant
The most abhorrent food

Nup!

Originally Posted by scarry

Telehealth is a great idea for some,although our local Doctor will only do it two days a week,at a certain time,from memory between 12.00 and 1.00PM,and of course it is fully booked for weeks.

Hell Paul, you are not served very well in your neck of the woods are you?
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Can't help but feel the olde song "Who wants to be a Millionaire? from the "fillum, High Society," springs to mind or should I say Billionaire, a Million being so olde hat these days.



Frank Sinatra - Who Wants to be a Millionaire (Soundtrack High Society) High Quality - YouTube

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Fully agree Mick Telehealth is usually a great thing We Love it where it fits the Medical need and a hands on Prod and Poke is not needed-

It is or should be restricted to Doctors to provide to you IF they know you and they have seen you in the last year Mick.

That rule is so a dopey Doc who doesn't know you gives you what you ask for that might KILL you due to something else your taking or some known medical issue a fast phone Doc would not have records to see from your medical history.

(PS- My Health Record is almost universally known to be almost a complete waste of time)

The Locum service our patients can call have access to a health summary if needed. Other Telehealth or those Call ME After Hours Locum Doctors ( Overseas???) do not.

Nurse on call or your Doctors after hours Locum service if very very different to the others who advertise LOUDLY who I will refrain from naming

Guess which other RULZ is broken frequently- charged to Medicare and Medicare forgets to look at Hint starts with Tele.............

No wonder some residents of another Sub- continent find our system phantasmagorical & there are yet many many more due to relaxation of some immigration standards.

Still, they do play cricket so they can't be all that bad.

somethings wrong with the system......$500k plus free new home wont get you a doctor in Julia Ck.....

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

somethings wrong with the system......$500k plus free new home wont get you a doctor in Julia Ck.....

Lets see, 6 years primary, 6 years secondary, 8 years of training .... so 20years of being stuck in a school. To go live in the middle of nowhere. After all that studying and "putting your life on hold" I'd be buggered if I shift to the backside of beyond. We aren't talking 18year olds that are ready to leave the nest. You're talking people that have spent the entire lives possibly living like paupers .... working there arses off.... that probably haven't really had a social life at all ... their friends they went to high school with have probably got married, maybe even had kids. Possibly have been working for nearly a decade in the workforce and own a house etc.... ie: "have a life" that isn't just studying like crazy.

A young doctor is going to want a life ... get out and live, I can certainly understand the last thing they wish to do is move to some remote location after spending the last 20years of your life doing nothing much other than studying every spare second of your waking hours.

bulk billing practices wouldn't be easy to make a dollar from. The place I work at used to own a lot of medical centers ... a large pathology lab and plenty of xray. I'm guessing you're probably always goiing to get either and xray or a blood test each time you see a doctor to try and spreed the bulk billing income over a few of the businesses.

I wouldn't want to work in medicine with all the stress and cost involved. just imagine being a dentist, they make huge $$$ right. Next time your there, just look around and what they are paying out for. Look at the equipment, the support staff, the overheads. It would be a pretty scary investment to take on if you ran your own practice.

No I'm a mere IT worker, not some highly educated person working in medicine. But I sure do not see the appeal of spending the first 1/3rd of your life studying.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Lets see, 6 years primary, 6 years secondary, 8 years of training .... so 20years of being stuck in a school. To go live in the middle of nowhere. After all that studying and "putting your life on hold" I'd be buggered if I shift to the backside of beyond. We aren't talking 18year olds that are ready to leave the nest. You're talking people that have spent the entire lives possibly living like paupers .... working there arses off.... that probably haven't really had a social life at all ... their friends they went to high school with have probably got married, maybe even had kids. Possibly have been working for nearly a decade in the workforce and own a house etc.... ie: "have a life" that isn't just studying like crazy.

A young doctor is going to want a life ... get out and live, I can certainly understand the last thing they wish to do is move to some remote location after spending the last 20years of your life doing nothing much other than studying every spare second of your waking hours.

bulk billing practices wouldn't be easy to make a dollar from. The place I work at used to own a lot of medical centers ... a large pathology lab and plenty of xray. I'm guessing you're probably always goiing to get either and xray or a blood test each time you see a doctor to try and spreed the bulk billing income over a few of the businesses.

I wouldn't want to work in medicine with all the stress and cost involved. just imagine being a dentist, they make huge $$$ right. Next time your there, just look around and what they are paying out for. Look at the equipment, the support staff, the overheads. It would be a pretty scary investment to take on if you ran your own practice.

No I'm a mere IT worker, not some highly educated person working in medicine. But I sure do not see the appeal of spending the first 1/3rd of your life studying.

That is what I used to say to my olde man.
His response was always "Get back to your homework Son, you might be a Doctor one day".


He was wrong.

Originally Posted by 4bee

That is what I used to say to my olde man.
His response was always "Get back to your homework Son, you might be a Doctor one day".


He was wrong.

My kids are the opposite to this .... unlike me, they really try. They are always studying and doing homework. I'm the opposite "Go out and do something ... enjoy life ... you're only young once".... I always hated school... and never wanted to be there. I've said to them many times, "Once you're out in the workforce **no-one** cares what your grades were at school" ...... If you get a degree, all employers want to see is the bit of paper saying you have a qualification. They don't know or care if you scraped through getting 49.5% for everything all the way through ... and were a crap student.

The pressure kids put themselves under these days is just insane. My daughter is currently in year 12 and it soiunds like there dropping like lemmings. The school is even advertising they have spots available in year 11 and 12 as so many are dropping out from the pressure.

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

somethings wrong with the system......$500k plus free new home wont get you a doctor in Julia Ck.....

It must have some redeeming points apart from these to suit a Young-ish Doc & Family. These seem to be one offs.

things to do in Julia Creek

• GET IN THE FESTIVAL SPIRIT. Got annual leave in April? ...
• MEET DONALD AND DUNCAN. Never heard of a Dunnart? ...
• MAKE A SPLASH. ...
• VISIT THE OPERA HOUSE. ...
• TAKE A CRUISE ON TWO WHEELS. ...
• VISIT THE SPIRIT OF THE LIGHT HORSE SCULPTURE. ...
• TAKE A WALK. ...
• ENJOY A BATH.

13 Mar 2020


Maybe some are not confident in their medical skills but by hell it would be one way to gain that confidence provided that no Law Suits come their way through inexperience. As would working for the RFDS.