She’s not really doing herself any favours if she’s looking for a second opinion yet not giving consent for another dr to do further investigations. Move her on to a 6 bed public ward and she won’t be long about going home.
Average daily cost is 1.3k for a stay. So 1 million euro give or take.
Pretty much how I feel the day after a feed of pints these days
Pretty much how I feel the day after a feed of pints these days
She’s obviously not well. The solicitor who is supporting her claims (and presumably charging her) should be investigated
What makes it worse is that according to rumors elsewhere she’s in the worst hospital in the country. A hospital where a good few people I know will travel to others parts of the country in order to avoid it.
No way would I want to be there unless I had no choice.
We’re just too soft in this country, legally at least. Between this, people staying in houses even if they haven’t paid their mortgage in years and and all the suspended sentences for violent crimes. Is there any point being law abiding?
Someone’s about to lose all their inheritance money with all these appeals
Wow, this is crazy. My Dad has been in hospital several times and each time they sent him home with no diagnosis and no treatment. We are at our wits end. The last time he went in we said we wouldn’t take him out with getting a diagnosis and a care plan. After a week they send him to a care home by taxi without telling us he was being discharged. We had to go bring him home and the situation remains as before.
My experience with both my parents and my in laws to date has been ‘they are old and we don’t care’
you don’t consent to discharge unless there is a step-down care plan e.g. a suitable care home and that might take a few additional days up to two week making it the Hospital’s problem motivating them to find a slot elsewhere for you but staying in hospital for two years is crazy.
I’d say the Nurses and HCAs are terrified of her, if she’s sending emails all night and day.
These cases are not unknown. I know of at least one other case in UHG. A lady who refused all discharge accommodations as not good enough. She was in a private room too the entire time. I think she was in there for over 3 years!
Hold her under the mental health act and transfer her somewhere more appropriate as there’s clearly something going on here
Check out this Hospital Enoch Burke!
Obviously none of us know the circumstances but if shes sharp enough to be sending emails as an elderly person I can’t imagine that she isn’t sharp enough to be either at home with home help or in a nursing home.
We had to refuse my elderly father in law getting discharged from letterkenny hospital because we all worked and he had no home help. As soon as we refused him coming home they weren’t long getting him home help and he was so happy to be home.
This patient is just an awkward cunt and I hope the hospital can ship her out
I have to say that the comments on Reddit Ireland are some of the worst on the internet. Just dogshit takes from every angle. It’s like Liveline at this stage.
“You’ve been discharged. So we won’t be providing meals, or medication, from tomorrow. “
Had an elderly relative who kept calling an ambulance because they had a minor infection but really i think they were lonely and none of their kids were willing to help.
We seem to have got in a routine of them being home now. The hospital promised all sort of support when they got out and not much of it has materialised.
Jesus Christ! They wouldn’t keep me an extra night after surgery when I was still throwing up after the anaesthetic and had no one to help me at home! Just got turfed out because “they’d already given the bed to someone else”
St. Jame’s recently brought a family to court to take an elderly man home too as he wasn’t sick enough to be in hospital. It’s sad really
Absolute madness
> Apart from contributing to the chronic overcrowding the hospital is experiencing, the daily cost of her stay is €1,322,
That’s €950,518 and counting, courtesy of you and me
She’s been in the hospital more or less the same duration of an average Dublin tenancy. How is it surprising that an elderly person doesn’t want to move from accommodation that she finds herself comfortable in?
Lads, this is a human being. And the article doesn’t say enough about her situation for us to judge.
I would think she is probably not the nicest patient and is being kept away from the wards to not disturb other patients, thus the private room. Nurse and Doctoes must have patience of Saints with some they get.
Surely it’s more of a mental issue now, if she refuses to leave can they get a convelesence home to take her.
Does she still have a home at this stage..?
Id take her down for some “scans” and while she is out of that room, move her belongings to a chair outside and lock the room. If you cant get her out of the room briefly for that, then as another said, no more meals or medication will be provided, youve been discharged to your own dr and 3 seperate top end consultants have reviewed your notes and each discharged you, you can always ask to be referred to the correct consultants or present to a&e if your symptoms change or worsen. You will be sent the bill for your inpatient treatment. We have ordered you a taxi/hospital transport vehicle to take you home, they will be here shortly..
This is an absolute joke, when you see actual vulnerable elderly or even very ill patients waiting hours for a bed on the wards, or an end of life patient so they and their family can have privacy. Does this woman have family? I dont agree with keeping her name out of the papers either, she is taking the piss and she knows it. The reason I think she is fully aware is that she is sharp enough to be sending constant emails plus she has gotten herself a lawyer..
I genuinely dont know how they’ve taken so long to get her to court to be honest, they are usually pretty forceful.
5 years ago after my emergency spinal operation and still coughing up blood 4 days later from complications, I was discharged and told my husband had been contacted and would be here shortly to collect me and the nurse took me down to the lobby in a wheelchair as they were already stripping the bed and mopping my ‘room’ (during covid so we had special partitions)
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Munchausen syndrome?
She’s not really doing herself any favours if she’s looking for a second opinion yet not giving consent for another dr to do further investigations. Move her on to a 6 bed public ward and she won’t be long about going home.
Average daily cost is 1.3k for a stay. So 1 million euro give or take.
Pretty much how I feel the day after a feed of pints these days
Pretty much how I feel the day after a feed of pints these days
She’s obviously not well. The solicitor who is supporting her claims (and presumably charging her) should be investigated
What makes it worse is that according to rumors elsewhere she’s in the worst hospital in the country. A hospital where a good few people I know will travel to others parts of the country in order to avoid it.
No way would I want to be there unless I had no choice.
We’re just too soft in this country, legally at least. Between this, people staying in houses even if they haven’t paid their mortgage in years and and all the suspended sentences for violent crimes. Is there any point being law abiding?
Someone’s about to lose all their inheritance money with all these appeals
Wow, this is crazy. My Dad has been in hospital several times and each time they sent him home with no diagnosis and no treatment. We are at our wits end. The last time he went in we said we wouldn’t take him out with getting a diagnosis and a care plan. After a week they send him to a care home by taxi without telling us he was being discharged. We had to go bring him home and the situation remains as before.
My experience with both my parents and my in laws to date has been ‘they are old and we don’t care’
you don’t consent to discharge unless there is a step-down care plan e.g. a suitable care home and that might take a few additional days up to two week making it the Hospital’s problem motivating them to find a slot elsewhere for you but staying in hospital for two years is crazy.
I’d say the Nurses and HCAs are terrified of her, if she’s sending emails all night and day.
These cases are not unknown. I know of at least one other case in UHG. A lady who refused all discharge accommodations as not good enough. She was in a private room too the entire time. I think she was in there for over 3 years!
Hold her under the mental health act and transfer her somewhere more appropriate as there’s clearly something going on here
Check out this Hospital Enoch Burke!
Obviously none of us know the circumstances but if shes sharp enough to be sending emails as an elderly person I can’t imagine that she isn’t sharp enough to be either at home with home help or in a nursing home.
We had to refuse my elderly father in law getting discharged from letterkenny hospital because we all worked and he had no home help. As soon as we refused him coming home they weren’t long getting him home help and he was so happy to be home.
This patient is just an awkward cunt and I hope the hospital can ship her out
I have to say that the comments on Reddit Ireland are some of the worst on the internet. Just dogshit takes from every angle. It’s like Liveline at this stage.
“You’ve been discharged. So we won’t be providing meals, or medication, from tomorrow. “
Had an elderly relative who kept calling an ambulance because they had a minor infection but really i think they were lonely and none of their kids were willing to help.
We seem to have got in a routine of them being home now. The hospital promised all sort of support when they got out and not much of it has materialised.
Jesus Christ! They wouldn’t keep me an extra night after surgery when I was still throwing up after the anaesthetic and had no one to help me at home! Just got turfed out because “they’d already given the bed to someone else”
St. Jame’s recently brought a family to court to take an elderly man home too as he wasn’t sick enough to be in hospital. It’s sad really
Absolute madness
> Apart from contributing to the chronic overcrowding the hospital is experiencing, the daily cost of her stay is €1,322,
That’s €950,518 and counting, courtesy of you and me
She’s been in the hospital more or less the same duration of an average Dublin tenancy. How is it surprising that an elderly person doesn’t want to move from accommodation that she finds herself comfortable in?
Lads, this is a human being. And the article doesn’t say enough about her situation for us to judge.
I would think she is probably not the nicest patient and is being kept away from the wards to not disturb other patients, thus the private room. Nurse and Doctoes must have patience of Saints with some they get.
Surely it’s more of a mental issue now, if she refuses to leave can they get a convelesence home to take her.
Does she still have a home at this stage..?
Id take her down for some “scans” and while she is out of that room, move her belongings to a chair outside and lock the room. If you cant get her out of the room briefly for that, then as another said, no more meals or medication will be provided, youve been discharged to your own dr and 3 seperate top end consultants have reviewed your notes and each discharged you, you can always ask to be referred to the correct consultants or present to a&e if your symptoms change or worsen. You will be sent the bill for your inpatient treatment. We have ordered you a taxi/hospital transport vehicle to take you home, they will be here shortly..
This is an absolute joke, when you see actual vulnerable elderly or even very ill patients waiting hours for a bed on the wards, or an end of life patient so they and their family can have privacy. Does this woman have family? I dont agree with keeping her name out of the papers either, she is taking the piss and she knows it. The reason I think she is fully aware is that she is sharp enough to be sending constant emails plus she has gotten herself a lawyer..
I genuinely dont know how they’ve taken so long to get her to court to be honest, they are usually pretty forceful.
5 years ago after my emergency spinal operation and still coughing up blood 4 days later from complications, I was discharged and told my husband had been contacted and would be here shortly to collect me and the nurse took me down to the lobby in a wheelchair as they were already stripping the bed and mopping my ‘room’ (during covid so we had special partitions)
So what did she do, handcuff herself to her bed?
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