Constant attention by a good nurse…
November 29th, 2006 by timelady
…may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
impactEDnurse is a fantastic Australian website about an ER Nurse in Canberra. Next time you need the ER, spare a thought for these overworked, stressed, amazing indivduals, and go and punch* your local Health Minister. Hard enough so that they need ER. And have to see how hard these people work in drastically underfunded systems.
*DISCLAIMER:
OK, I *WAS* joking about punching your Health Minister. Tempting as it is, best not.
Write to them, phone them, complain bitterly and loudly at every opportunity on behalf of medical staff and patients alike.
As Arlo Guthrie said in the great, classic, immortal (can you tell I love it) song Alice’s Restuarant -
“And the only reason I’m singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if you’re in a situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say “Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant.”.
And walk out.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singing a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singing a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out.
And friends, they may thinks it’s a movement.”
Become a movement. Sing at them - that should be annoying enough:)
