Katy off to Scandinavia

trevar said :

Katy is a horrible, whining little so and so, and not a very pleasant person, but I think there is hope that she may at least learn something, and if she doesn’t, we can at least hope that she’ll get lost, not be able to find the airport, and never come back. Either outcome is positive.

I don’t mind if she goes. I will mind though if she comes back.

sepi said :

It is sad tho that our lack of doctors and long waits in emergency have been treated with a phone line discouraging people from coming in, rather than with more resources.

Actually, I believe the opposite has occurred: the inability to effectively triage or treat over the telephone results in MORE recommendations to present to the ED “just in case” the case described over the phone is something serious. The telephone enquiry line idea may well have been copied, but there’s no accounting for bad decisions by other states.

The ACT started up the health first phone line where you could talk to a nurse 24 hours a day to see if you were sick enough for hospital. That has now gone national, so others have copied us.

It is sad tho that our lack of doctors and long waits in emergency have been treated with a phone line discouraging people from coming in, rather than with more resources.

Hasn’t the ACT signed up to NEHTA, Australia’s ehealth black hole? Not sure what they have delivered, but a few hundred million have been spent so it must be good. Maybe Katy just needs to pop down the Woden and visit the Commonwealth health department

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24645531-15306,00.html

She’s not pinin’! She’s passed on! This Ka’y is no more! She has ceased to be! She’s expired and gone to meet ‘er maker! She’s a stiff! Bereft of life, she rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘er to the plane she’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘er metabolic processes is ‘istory! Sh’s off the twig! She’s kicked the bucket, she’s shuffled off ‘er mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!

maybe she’s just pining for the fjords?

I wishe we had a health care system that other countries wanted to copy!

I can’t stand Katie. She comes across as an airhead with no idea and she’s constantly wriggling out of any responsibility.

However, you can’t accuse her of taking junkets. I have no problems with this. maybe she’ll come back with some good ideas.

Mr Evil has it pretty right. Katy could learn the secret to life/perpetual motion/Murphies Law, and still be able to bugger up their application here on the ground.

I doubt we will see any benefit, apart from a possible slight suntan on herself.

I don’t mind this trip for Katy. It isn’t as if she is constantly overseas – this is the first trip I remember, and it sounds legit. It may be a nice bit of Denmark, but it isn’t a huge holiday destination.