Comments on: Mixed Sex http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/2009/03/13/mixed-sex/ Politics and Medicine: A Lethal Combination Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andrew W http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/2009/03/13/mixed-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-1758 Andrew W Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:22:50 +0000 http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/?p=1704#comment-1758 But why?? How can there possibly be such shortcomings in the glorious state health system?? Milsey! Can you explain why it's like this? Heaven forbid if the system were to be privatised, aye Milsey? But why?? How can there possibly be such shortcomings in the glorious state health system??

Milsey! Can you explain why it’s like this? Heaven forbid if the system were to be privatised, aye Milsey?

]]> By: wally http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/2009/03/13/mixed-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 wally Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:07:01 +0000 http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/?p=1704#comment-1749 a few years ago my daughter was admitted to a paediatric ward and i was sitting by her bed when the ward round swept in. consultant, registrar, house-surgeon, trainee intern, a few students, a couple of nurses and the ward clerk. they had come to see a young maori couple with their child who was in a bed opposite us. it was a fascinating encounter to observe. the doctors examined the child, talked among themselves, showed things to the students, issued instructions and then finally deigned to talk to the patient's parents. for the amount of successful communication that went on, it may as well have been an encounter with a team of aliens from a distant galaxy. <p><b>Perhaps they <i>were</i> a team of Aliens... :-) </b></p> a few years ago my daughter was admitted to a paediatric ward and i was sitting by her bed when the ward round swept in.
consultant, registrar, house-surgeon, trainee intern, a few students, a couple of nurses and the ward clerk.
they had come to see a young maori couple with their child who was in a bed opposite us. it was a fascinating encounter to observe. the doctors examined the child, talked among themselves, showed things to the students, issued instructions and then finally deigned to talk to the patient’s parents. for the amount of successful communication that went on, it may as well have been an encounter with a team of aliens from a distant galaxy.

Perhaps they were a team of Aliens… :-)

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