Touchy medicos need reality check
THERE’S a tragedy unfolding right now in Australia, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend.
Every day, hundreds of anaesthetists get in their BMWs and Audis and head to work in our hospitals.
These are highly trained professionals. They’ve studied for a decade or more in top sandstone universities.
They do great work, sedating patients and then civilly popping rocks on Candy Crush while half-mad butchers slash and tear away at those patients.
But sadly, our anaesthetists aren’t getting the respect they deserve from you, the drooling fools on the operating table threatening to rudely interrupt their mobile games. You probably don’t even know they exist.
You almost certainly can’t pronounce their job title.
According to a story published by Fairfax Media this week, one in 10 patients don’t even realise anaesthetists are doctors.
They’re rarely represented in medical dramas on tele- ON A BUFF CLUB MILLIONAIRE BEING FOUND $47m won but how many invested? Bradis Faroucky Collins Congratulations to the winner ENJOY. Belinda Parker Lucky bastard Leonardo Rodrigues
The numbers you posted won’t be good numbers now! HAHAHAA Mick Glasgow Told ya the buff club was awesome Tom Bidgogg Be good for a loan then Jeremy James Czoloszynski vision or in movies. When was the last time you saw Katherine Heigl playing a complicated but hot anaesthetist pashing on with an equally hot colleague on screen? Never, and it’s a downright travesty.
Sometimes, anaesthetists even suffer the horrid indignity of being mistaken by patients for mere nurses.
Nurses! What an insult.
ON AN EARTHQUAKE RATTLING THE TOP END
Yes, I was shopping at Coles & was looking at the coffee cups that where hanging when they all started rattling. Definitely lasted a good while. At first I was confused ... then thought maybe earthquake. Chloe Maree Weeks
It is frightening. they happen quite often up here ... Jennie Mitchell
Didn’t feel a bit of it, didn’t even know it happened till me ma told me Janinne O'Reilly
We were clearly having too much fun at work to notice Zoe Harber I understand their pain. On more than one occasion while covering court as a journalist, I’ve been mistaken by a well-meaning clerk for a drink driver or drug dealer.
Even worse, someone once asked me if I worked for the ABC.
The slur still stings to this day.
According to the latest Australian Taxation Office data, the NT’s 32 anaesthetists earned an average wage of $285,000 a year but the hurt caused to them by being mistaken for nurses isn’t one that can be soothed by the fact they earn about five times as much as them.
And these Aussie battlers aren’t going to take it lying
Yes! Felt it on the 4th floor of our apartment from my office! My chair was rocking back and forth! Insane! I was wondering if I should be running outside! Nicole Johnson
Yes. Was at lights at Trower Rd and Progress Dr. Thought there was something wrong with the car! Tina Oliver
I thought I was losing my mind! I was homesick and felt it but thought it was just part of my fever! Glad that I wasn’t going batty! Cat Kelly
Probably me on the shitter making sounds Nikolas Kastellorizios
Yes ... in Wanguri – sitting at dining table when it and my chair started moving. not a long time but enough to make you take notice Shirley Ansell
This will become worse if fracking of our land continues. Helen Pinkerton
On the 7th floor in the Darwin city we certainly felt it. Went for a few seconds Matthew Alder
Yes!, it was a good one & lasted quite a few seconds Trish Williams first one I have felt Megan David
ON HOLDEN RECALLING 333,000 CARS
Not many people know that GM has based its cars on the Commodore for years. Wonder how many Chevies and Pontiacs might be affected. Ken-Brenda Fallon
Haha, so is this a pathetic attempt at try to woo the Australian market into thinking the new Commodore, oh sorry, the new Opel is better than cars made in Australia Nigel Walker
Well, think the Holden Commodore should be on that list cause my airbag has lifted badly and the cover is nearly folded up Heather Smith