Iām sure it is a pure coincidence but Ronan Glynn is now an equity partner in EY.
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Fcuk me
It is. And especially if youāre an OAP and/or have a medical card. They donāt want to know about you.
Seriously like?
Are you sure heās equity and not salaried?
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Yes, as a salaried partner in another area told me. He only did a year and was made equity partner which doesnāt really happen but I suppose he a the cash cow.
Probably went in on the understanding that heād make equity in a year if it didnāt all go to shit.
And itās the refugee centres the lunatics target.
Iād say that is far more prevalent at weekends by south/Shannon/west doc etc when the doctor on call has no history or relationship with the patient and is less likely to make a judgment callā¦v unhelpful timing when the hospital is overloaded anyway
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Heads should roll in that place.Its a national disgrace at this stage.
Owed Portlaoise hospital a ton for stitching my finger back together. They sent me out a bill with a QR codeā¦that leads nowhere. No harm though, I live a short walk from the hospital and wanted to pay in cash anyway so I walked down to the hospital and asked at reception.
āYouāll need to go to the administration buildingā I was told. The lovely lady (everyone was lovely in fairness) gave me directions to that building so I walked over to it. The main down was closed so I partially circumnavigated it to the nearest open door and approached a little hatch with āreceptionā written, all lower-case, on a crooked piece of A4 over it.
āIām looking to pay an A&E billā I said.
āOh you need to go to A&Eā the young lady answered .
Over i trotted to the war zone that was A&E and waited in the queue as a fella that had been electrocuted and could barely speak recited his eircode for the lady behind the hatch. Eventually my turn came and I approached the hatch.
āYouāll have to go to the administration buildingā I was told. āDo you know how to get there?ā
āI doā I answered.
Back over I went (the steps will be excellent today) to the administration building to meet the same girl again.
āThey sent me back hereā I said.
āOhā¦ā she answered and after a longish pause, added ā Claire will be back soon Iāll ask herā.
I say on the bench next to an old lad whoād fallen asleep and waited approximately 10 minutes for Claire. She arrived and said told me it was just down the corridor. I followed the corridor past a few consultation rooms and a set of toilets to an area marked āstaff only past this point.ā
I turned around and began to walk back to herself again when finally a nurse emerged for a consultation room. I asked her where I could pay and she said āfollow me.ā
I followed her in a completely different direction to the one Iād been told till I reached the ācash officeā (again marked out in A4 paper) and rang the bell.
A mere 45 mins after I entered the hospital grounds and the bill was successfully paid
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Claire is a dote.
Keep your receipt safe.
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Any cork based poster, laya opened their own clinic in little island, in and out quick today to see a doctor. Unreal compared to the last few times i used affidea waited at least 2 hours few times and weeks for scans due to CUH just sending people there to free up a&e ( at our expense)
My pal went today with his frail oul fella for a booked appointment to the Galway clinic for a scan of his back today.
Six
Fucking
Hours
And they left his oul fella in a freezing corridor in a flimsy gown for nearly an hour whilst they decided whether theyād go ahead with a scan without a paper letter stating that the oul fellas heart valve was MRI safe.
My pal managed to ring a friendly cardiologist who whatsapped the letter to him stating the name, brand and that it was safe. The cardiologist also said heād ring and speak to them. The radiographer however decided it was safer to leave the frail elderly man cold in the corridor whilst my pal went back the length of the Galway clinic to the emergency department desk, emailed them a copy of the WhatsApp photo, they printed it, and then sent it back over on a bit of paper. Meanwhile they took someone else in to scan and left them in the waiting room abandoned.
The health service in Ireland is a shambles all ends up.
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Eamon Ryan had a cut off them today over autism support on the public side, that he was looking for his son.
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This was private. It was just fucking wrong. My pal told me that they booked in at 11. His dad hasnāt great hearing and couldnāt understand one of the nurses who was then a bit stroppy because fur some reason she kept telling him to take off his jacket, and he couldnāt understand her. They then waited til 1pm to be told the scan wouldnāt be until 3, so my pal took his dad out for lunch having cleared it as long as they were back by 245. They got a call at 240 saying the scan was ready. They were at the hospital door by then so weāre at the waiting area for the scan 2 minutes later. Deserted. About 5 mins after that a young wan clearly working there went past. My pal.askrd her where the MRI scanner was because there were no signs and was abruptly ordered to wait in the waiting area (unmarked and deserted) and someone would be with them. 20.minutes passed and nothing, so he went back down the corridor she had hastened away along and found her planted at a reception desk looking at her phone. He apologised and said that nobody had been, and he was worried they were in the wrong place, and missing their appointment. He explained his dad was old and frail. A roll eyes and another frankly rude instruction to wait where theyād been told. Five minutes later she wandered out, knocked on an unmarked door, which was clearly the scanner, and said to the staff in there that we were waiting. My pal was then told to wait outside whilst his father was changed. He waited for about half an hour, then was called into the scanner waiting area where his dad was pale and shivering and clearly uncomfortable on a wheelchair, and asked about the heart valve, because they wouldnāt scan without the information, and then the above rigmarole started, with his dad then parked back out on the corridor on his own because by now they had found someone else to scan.
When the scan was finished, the same wan that wouldnāt allow my pal in initially for sone kind of health and safety bollox he presumed, called him in and told him his father needed help getting dressed. His dad was pushed into a side cubicle shivering again in a thin gown whilst another client was attended to.
My pal helped his dad get dressed. His dad point blank refused to go back to the emergency dept and just wanted to go home for a hot drink by the fire. My pal put a pour of decent whiskey into the hot chocolate.
This is what the highest level of VHI gets you.
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The Galway clinic is private isnāt it? I had two interactions with with private medicine recently. The Urgent Cardiac Care unit in the Mater Private and the VHI Swiftcare in Swords. The Urgent Care Care was grand just about ok. 5 hours to discharge. The Swiftcare was great but I was about an hour ahead of the Thursday night training injury rush. An hour later and Iād have been there for the night.
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