Re: Tommy Kapai The Weekend Sun 10 September 2010.
Your Health Board figures made for sober reading. Yes, the Cardiac/Vascular unit at Tauranga Hospital is the lowest rating of 64% of the 21 DHB's in NZ.
I would be dead if I listened to the crap advised by the cardiac specialists. They are a waste of time. Send the so called specialists out into the real world and they might learn a thing or two.
The BOPDHB needs a Commissioner appointed to sort out the reasons for their dismal ratings.
My experience is added to the 64%. There are Health Board candidates who also have revealed these figures to the press, so they are justified.
I have had expensive private surgery to remain a taxpayer.
Hugh McKay, Tauranga.
Posted: 03:08pm Fri 24 Sep, 2010
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This is the system you all demand
Posted on 26-09-2010 12:29 | By The author of this comment has been removed.
Sorry to hear about your surgery Hugh - nobody should have to go through all that. These are the kind of problems you can expect to encounter when we continue demanding the government provide us with a RATIONED health system. Just the same as a supermarket would be unable to keep stock on their shelves if it was FREE. The only way government can provide FREE health services available is to RATION THEM - ie make it harder for people to get on their waiting lists or put them off till they are nearly dead before providing surgery. They have led you to believe they will provide for your health - YES, but only when THEY say you are NEEDY ENOUGH. If we were all taught to be more responsible for our own health (and everything else), we would have the VERY BEST medical care available WHEN WE ASK FOR IT - instead of when Government say we can have it. Hope you get well soon.
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