William Walker
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Hospital Reforms
Under a new radical plan considered by me, serial patients who take the
health system for a ride or are unhelpful in their attempts to undergo
treatment, will be forced to undergo hospital educational wheelchair shaming
tours and undertake health courses, hospital treatment educational courses
and diet courses as part of a radical crackdown to discourage unco-operative
behaviour and coming to hospital un-necessarily to seek treatment.
We have to get tougher and hold a more firm stance that taking the public
health system for a ride is strongly discouraged. We have to catch those
patients at their own game.
Hopefully those educational courses and wheelchair shaming tours would
discourage those patients from behaving badly and daring to take the health
system for a ride.
If the patient refuse to undertake these educational courses, the hospital
staff reserves the right to report the patient to the police, school,
family, Centrelink or employer depending on the individual's circumstances.
This is a new radical measure designed to curb this behaviour of taking the
health system for a ride.
It is not to discourage anyone from coming to hospital as long as they have
a good and proper reason to come, but I strongly discourage patients who
appear to be well enough to go home the first time they are admitted to take
the health system for a ride and any unco-operative behaviour from patients
are strongly discouraged.
Patients of school and working age who bring in smokes and alcohol or ask
visitors to bring smokes and alcohol for them into the hospital grounds will
be forced to undertake mandatory educational courses warning them of the
dangers of smoking and alcohol and the health impact it can have on them and
their own families.
Not every patient will be targeted for those education courses, they are
designed for patients of working age and school age who don't listen to the
staff, don't want to try to help themselves when they are able to and those
who come to hospital to take the system for a ride at first admission time
when they are well and able to go back home.
There are no easy solutions to a complex problem but we must all try to
solve problems such as long waiting lists for surgery and so on, we need to
better manage the system and to better educate the public and patients of
the impact it can have on them if and when they are stuck in bed and unable
to walk.
I concede that education is sadly lacking in a failing public health system.
I am of the view that the hospitals cannot just discharge undesirable and
unco-operative patients because these patients might not learn until they
themselves are caught in that situation one day unable to walk and get out
of bed.
Education is a very important part of the health system in my view. For too
long undesirable patients are of the view that a hospital stay equals a much
needed holiday and are encouraged to take the public health system for a
ride. I intend to change all that. I want the hospital stay to be of a
valuable learning educational experience forcing undesirable patients of
school age and working age to undertake lessons and educational courses
highlighting the consequences of being stuck in bed and to highlight the
dangers of alcohol and smoking and the diet courses and so on.
Over time the undesirable patient will be very tiring of these courses and
decide not to take the public health system for a ride again. But rest
assured the patient has the right to access the public health system as long
as he have a good genuine reason to be admitted to hospital. If he can
provide he has a good reason to be admitted and if the staff are satisfied
the patient case is genuine enough to be admitted then that patient will not
be subject or forced to undertake these educational courses.
I know there will always be some or a few patients who just want to stay in
hospital, but i am very concerned that the number of patients in that
criteria are rising. We have got to stem that rise and to ensure that the
health system is running more smoothly and to ensure that more needy cases
are properly catered for.
I strongly encourage other people who have been in situations where they are
unable to get out of bed or walk recently to please try and educate
undesirable and unco-operative patients of the impact it can have on them if
they are unable to walk and get out of bed.
People can call for extra hospitals or call for extra beds but we will never
have enough to cater for an increasing population. We need to
instead try and educate people to be more alert of their own health and try
and educate people what it is like to be stuck in bed and unable to walk,
and shame undesirable people at a last resort.
William Walker
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