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Crisis? What crisis? : Comments

By Kym Durance, published 19/9/2018

Crisis is a word all too often thrown around in relation to the aged care industry. Sadly the frequency with which that word is employed has been blunted.

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- Actually I have more to add to my previous comment.

When Doctors say "You've got 4 months to live".
When Doctors give a patient with cancer a 30% chance of living with Chemo and Radiation Therapy that will likely kill them anyway and the patient says "No", in order to die with dinity;
When the health department just simply closes their case file saying 'Patient Refused Treatment' and rolls back pain and sickness medication;
When the patient requests CBD, and is told "It's in the works but won't be available for a few months yet";
Patient's like, "I'll be dead by then".
When a $7000 treatment of CBD could save someone's life and the government drags their feet.
When the government happily pays $42,000 a script to cure a hopeless junkie of Hepatitus C, (and not their drug addiction or mental problems) so that the junkie can go back out stick another needle up their arm and try to catch the Hepatitus C back again.

'We cant afford to look after everyone, not with all the refugees with their 8 - 10 kids; and all the junkies who take priority.'

- 'Just die already.'

Stupid backwards country.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Monday, 24 September 2018 8:03:53 AM
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