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I have no problems with my regular hospital and my regular doctor. My GP is pretty good too. Having said that, I keep control of my treatment at all times!
I don't trust either the doctors or the ethos of the public hospital system.
18 months ago the doctors at the local public hospital told me that they weren't going to treat my mother because she wouldn't have any quality of life. I had her transferred to a private hospital (she would have died within days without treatment). It's 18 months later and she is alive and I won't say she is well but she's enjoying her life. The condition they were going to let her die from (heart failure and respiratory failure) was completely cured with treatment.
All I can say is that they didn't want to "waste" resources on my Mum and were willing to lie to my face about her condition to justify their lack of treatment. I now know that doctors can be bald faced lying, unethical b#####ds. I don't trust any of them as far as I can throw them.
I've learnt that you have to be involved in your own care and you have to be assertive.
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