Posted on 12/22/2012 8:26:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
It’s a catch-22 isn’t it? If she had told them she may not have been able to work there, but through not telling them, she wasn’t able to get any help, either. I had a good friend whose teenage daughter made five attempts at suicide before she finally succeeded. Although her family sought and obtained assistance for her, the outcome was tragic. She was determined. It destroyed the family.
You write she would have lost her job and everything she had to live for...I don’t agree, she lost her life because at the third attempt she succeeded in killing herself, and had the presence of mind to leave notes that blamed someone else, at the hospital, for her depression, of which we now see she had a long history.
She wasn’t anywhere near Kate Middleton, all she did was answer the telephone and transfer the caller through to the ward-nurse.
Are you planning to learn to read any time soon?
That month, Ms Saldanha, her accountant husband Benedict Barboza, 49, their son Junal, 17, and adopted daughter Lisha, 14, attended a family wedding in Shirva, 30 miles north of Mangalore. But on December 30, just days after the devout Catholic family celebrated Christmas, Ms Saldanha is believed to have taken an overdose of pills. She was rushed to a private hospital in Mangalore, where she was treated for ‘self-harm’.
On January 8 this year, she is believed to have attempted suicide again and was treated at Father Muller Medical College Hospital for head injuries suffered in a ‘fall’.
She was kept in intensive care for several days and then admitted to the psychiatric ward of the hospital, where she was treated for depression.
Are you planning to learn some manners during the Christmas season?
Same outcome either way. Telling people and getting proper treatment cannot be seen as a writeoff, but that’s how most employers work. This is why there is a disincentive for these people to seek treatment in the first place - because they know that once it gets out that they are being treated, or that they made an attempt - they are considered to be unemployable.
Like I said, I’ve known friends who struggle with this stuff. Yes, they do suffer, but what really pisses me off are the folks like earlier up in the thread who say, “why would you hire such a person?”
I have a disability and I know what it’s like for employers to write you off. That pisses me off too. I was the valedictorian in my school - but all they see is the disability.
No. Are you planning to read the article and note that her previous suicide attempts took place in India and her treatment was also in India, and nothing about her treatment had anything to do with the public health system in the UK?
The Private Hospital where she was employed would have been unaware of her mental problems, if she didn’t make them known.
And btw, just because it’s not going to work in the US in it’s present form, doesn’t mean any and every public health system is doomed to fail, there are countries around the world where there are systems that work very well, and Australia happens to be one of them.
Rather than denigrate the public health systems of other countries, what the US might need to do is come up with a plan that actually makes sense and works. Keep the politics out of it, let the health industry design it. (That’s after you get back on your fiscal feet.)
Your inferences may be quite incorrect. You assume you know more than I about public health systems, the woman who committed suicide and her previous mental health. You may be right but it is unlikely.
Perhaps you are not aware of the number of foreign health care providers in the UK? No matter how good they might be they still come from a different culture and have values that differ from ours. Language skills also vary. The fact that a member of the royal family and possible future queen had providers who did not have high level security clearance is surprising.
BTW I have many friends who were born in Australia but live here. They all prefer our health care system to theirs and feels our is much superior.
The fact remains her suicide attempts took place in India, as did her treatment, there would not be a record of that part of her medical history in the UK, and yes, considering the number of immigrants in that country, employees in the health care industry would reflect the origin of the over-all population. As does yours, I imagine.
Which still has nothing to do with who answered the telephone call and passed the enquiry through to the ward nurse who answered the questions asked by the hoaxer callers.
That Australians living in the US prefer Obamacare to the Australian public health system beggars belief. You simply couldn’t afford it, and the only reason it exists here is because we have the resource income to pay for it and that won’t last for-ever.
King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes is a private hospital in the City of Westminster in London, formerly the King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers.
IT'S A PRIVATE HOSPITAL
“...Two days after the broadcast, nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who had worked just over four years at the hospital and had passed on the hoax call to the Duchess's private ward, was found dead. The Metropolitan Police are describing it as an “unexplained death”.[9][10][11] On 14 December The Guardian reported that it understood that the third of the notes left by Saldanha ‘addressed her employers, the hospital, and contained criticism of staff there.’ [12]
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Good grief, Fred. Relax.
I am glad you are happy with your doctors, Muslim and all. Just be glad your wife or daughter is not a rape victim and has to be treated by a Muslim physician. It’s been a major problem in our emergency rooms that employed Muslim physicians.
One of the reasons you have found better care in Australia is because many of the best physicians from England have moved to Australia. At the same time England has been flooded with physicians from the Middle East and Africa.
Instead of relying on your personal experience you should read the literature. Even ten years ago 58% of the new doctors came from outside the country and 30% of the doctors trained in England came from ethnic minorities.
I will repeat: If the future queen of England is cared for by foreign health care providers what hope is there for the average patient. It is a problem - whether you choose to believe it or not - when your doctor comes from a different cultural background, speaks a different language, and has different values. I’ll take a physician trained in the US any day over someone from Cuba, Bulgaria or Egypt.
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