Healthcare not so bad
MUCH unwarranted flak and negativity is directed towards our health system from various sources, including politicians seeking electoral mileage, and people who seem to have little else to do.
Some complaints are probably well founded, but from my experience with the Queensland health system, both as an inpatient and out, and as one of the aged community, I could not ask for better, and I am sure most will concur. Go to any other country on Earth to appreciate just how lucky we are, full stop!
One huge problem confronting our health system is the spiralling increase in drug and/ or alcohol- induced trauma, along with our ever increasing cases of road toll, and in most such cases, the trauma is selfinflicted.
The military term that covers such injury is called SIW – “selfinflicted wound” for which the inflicted one is charged under military law.
In civilian life today, few are responsible for their own actions, and I venture to say that a lot of patients falling into the above categories, plus many more who flirt with dangerous activities, are “abusing” our health system, for want of a better word, and taxpayers are footing the huge associated bill. Dollars we don’t have. Borrowed dollars!
No wonder our health system is struggling to keep abreast of public demand.
It is not the health system’s fault, it’s the system that allows all the above to happen, and worse still, that continues to allow it to compound with ever increasing enormity.
The Government then unfairly becomes the whipping post, and so the ever deepening vortex intensifies.
Society itself has a lot to answer for; our permissive society.
DON MORRIS, Cranbrook.