Tuesday 21 October 2008

Edward Plainfield: Not Needed

I came across this proposal for building a new Edward Plainfield Hospital. With all due respect I dont think the New hospital is needed.

I mean Edward is resorting to equivocal reports to earn revenue for its doctors and the hospital. I was told that it is the norm at Edward to consider suspicion and respiration as PE and filing defects as DVT and to not stop anti coagulation for a year. The false PE that I had costed me an extra #75,000 in medical bills. $75,000 extra revenue for Edward and its doctors

The doctor shamelessly told me that she has done this many times and they will continue doing this. Yes people get anemia and bleed, but we always give them blood transfusions. By the time patients obtain there records, switch doctors and get repeated CTAs it is almost 3-4 months in medication and therapy. And if there is no death or permanent damage, they cant do anything about it.


A new hospital means greater number of empty hospital beds and I shudder how many more people are going to be subjected to the same kind of torture that I went through

What next?

I came across this site http://www.hospitalcomplaint.com that lists the steps that one should take to resolve Quality of Care \Billing issues with the hospital.

An excellent site with concise , precise information and one that I have been using as my basis for filing complaints.

So The next step as mentioned on http://www.hospitalcomplaint.com/qci.html are
1. Filing a complaint with JCHO
2. Filing a complaint with Ministry of Health
3. And most importantly as suggested by Edward itself to
Department of Professional Regulation