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Soweta born Dr. Maria Phalime: Why I stopped being a doctor. |
2014-05-07 |
[Cape Argus] Cape Town - GF Jooste Hospital, in the heart of the Cape Flats, had a phenomenal reputation as the training ground for skilled doctors and so I was thrilled when I was offered a community-service post there. After two months on the wards, I moved to the casualty unit. I joined a team of four doctors and it didn't take long for me to figure out what was expected of me and my colleagues. Sure, we were required to save lives, but the real measure of our success in the unit was our ability to assess and manage patients quickly, refer them elsewhere, and create space for more to come in. This task, however, was not as straightforward as it seemed, because as hard as we were working to offload patients, the people we were referring them to were as reluctant to accept them. Every day we engaged in endless haggling with medics, surgeons, gynaes, psychiatrists and, in moments of desperation, social workers to justify why they needed to take over the care of these patients. No one wanted the additional burden on their already overflowing workloads. Welcome to government run healthcare. |
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#4 Legalize nyaope! |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-05-07 20:17 |
#3 Well to the Animal Farm. "Four legs good, two legs “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” There is always a one percent - SA, Venezuela, North Korea, et al |
Posted by: P2kontheroad 2014-05-07 08:13 |
#2 From an article today in the Telegraph:When [ANC] party bigwigs had an apparent change of heart in March and went to campaign in Bekkersdal in March this year, they were greeted with brickbats and burning tyres, prompting their bodyguards to open fire with live ammunition. Boitumelo Nkuna, 22, a local community leader, said it was their own “Marikana” although, miraculously, no one was killed. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-05-07 05:48 |
#1 FTA: "Two of my colleagues contracted TB – a combination of being physically run down and the overwhelming exposure to the infective organisms." Article seems more about professional burnout and a declining standard of living than about government health care per se. The 0.1% live in a separate reality. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-05-07 05:35 |