Senator Tom Clonan on his own son’s experience with being on a waiting list for and receiving spinal surgery at Temple Street Hospital

4 comments

1. wow I didn’t know the situation was that bad. Heartbroken for all the families involved in this especially since it is happening in a ‘first world country’

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   Also, this video reminded to not take good health for granted.

2. Terrible just terrible.

3. This is not just for spinal surgery. Personally I was in a situation where my Consultant, who was performing life altering surgery on new-born babies, was lamenting that super-time-critical operations that they was willing to do, were being cancelled on them. Potentially leading to these babies growing up disabled, for the sake of a couple of hours of theatre time. This person was having to choose which infants to leave behind, and thankfully mine was not one of them.

4. An embarrassing health care system. A costly, inefficient, brutal mess. The way it is managed is borderline criminal