Two friends in private hospitals at present. One in the Morningside Clinic intensive care unit at R 7 000 per day for her medical aid. They remove an intravenous line from her neck and succeed in getting a bubble into her bloodstream which causes a stroke. She's rushed to Milpark Hospital for hyperbaric tank (what they do with divers who have 'the bends) treatment to get the bubble out of her brain. Negligence? Stupidity? Incompetence? What you'd expect from a private clinic? I think not.
The second person's in the Sandton Clinic. She's being checked into the ward and the nursing sister (three bars plus badge on shoulder) is taking her medical history. My friend says, 'I have osteoporosis.' The sister replies, 'Where did you catch that?' It wasn't a joke. That's the level of medical 'care', comprehension and competence you can expect today. God help the public health sector if this is what you pay fortunes for in the private sector.
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