DR. House Calls - any in your nation?

[oscar111]

and free, or a fee? How much?

PHONE DOC FOR FREE AT MIDNIGHT?
Got any other nice things, like phone line to national centre for doctor advice over the phone? Zealand has/had this for 24 hour 7 day a week free advice.

PRIVATE AIR TO STOP GERM SPREAD?
you have any waiting rooms with individual airflow {to end catching bugs from other patients!} I have heard of this for a few rich areas, private doc offices.

AMBULANCES WITH DOCS?
Any ambulances with actual doctors riding in them on calls == in US, we only have a driver, or sometimes paramedics. Never heard of a doctor here. Even oxygen sometimes not on the ambulance, IIRC because of insurance and staff qualifications not enough.

SLEEP-STARVED FUMBLEFINGER DOCS,
48 HOUR SHIFT
Your nation work student doctors 48 hours with NO SLEEP? US does, and .. gasp ... where experience is MOST NEEDED, in the Emergency Room!!!!! Should be grey haired experts only in there, over fifty years old. Eight hour shifts only, and no rotating shifts either.

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES?
Our Emergency Rooms have crowds waiting , often , eight hours and i have read of THREE DAY WAITS in the ER, back in the eighties. Yours that crowded and understaffed? Staffing would end waits.

thank you so much!

[fasttense]

1. Sometimes the doctors in this country act as if

they are Gods gift to the world and can't accommodate patients. They expect and demand patients to accommodate them. Then complain when their patients expect them to be competent and sue them when they are not competent. My sister and brother-in-law are doctors and though my sister does volunteer work for a child abuse center, my brother-in-law is all about making money. And he does rake it in. He alone, makes my annual salary every month. Yet he is constantly complaining about his patients and the cost of malpractice insurance. Yet they have so much money, they don't know what to do with it all.

I guess some of that arrogant attitude is caused by the crap they have to take as interns. I really have a problem with the lack of sleep they get. It is unsafe and leads to bad decisions. But the doctors do nothing about it. It's like an antiquated initiation rite of passage. Almost as good as hazing.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Imagine a time with no hospitals , thank god he cant(Shrub) run again!

Professionalism is what Shrubs administration is all about.

[Kellanved]

3. well

In theory the Doctors are bound by law to do house calls in extreme cases. There a lists with doctors on Emergency duties.
It depends on the health care provider, how much it costs and so on.

Yup, ambulances come with two paramedics and one doc (or, if applicable, one midwife)

Yup, we have docs with 48+ hour shifts.

a visit to the ER can take a while; 12 hours are not unheard of, but usually one sees a doc within twenty minutes. Two hours to get everything done.

[oscar111]

5. you are in germany IIRC fm another post on immigration, right?

thanks for the info!

[tenshi816]

4. Yep, but from what I understand

they won't do it at the drop of a hat anymore (this is the UK I'm talking about) because some - a very few - abused the system by expecting their GPs always to make house calls, instead of occasionally.

I had a couple of difficult pregnancies here and my GP used to pop in to see me on her way home from work every month or so, without me asking her to. I was so taken aback by that, and touched by her concern. To my GP, it was just a normal part of her life.

Also, we had an occasion very early one Sunday morning when my 3-year old was showing symptoms of meningitis, and the GP on duty was over and knocking on our front door within 10 minutes of me placing the call. (It was a false alarm, thank God, but I was so impressed that this doctor would leap out of bed to come look at my child.)

People complain about the National Health Service, but coming from the States I am one of its biggest defenders. Yes, it has room for improvement, but it beats anything America has and I think it's wonderful.