sassy_squirrel

I have to say I've been lucky with doctors on the most part. I changed a doctor coz I didn't feel he was listening to me but yeah. I usually get my lungs checked when I'm sick but that could just be coz they know I get chest infections a lot. Hope you are feeling better.

Well...I didn't get in :-( I'll try for mid year applications.

Really you got charged $36 for him to add something on the pathology form? At a medical centre? Man, I know I get charged like $10 if I want my doctor to write me a prescription but don't visit but $36 for adding to a pathology form? Glad you got most of it back from medicare but shouldn't that have been bulkbilled in the first place?

Sorry but didn't the OP say that she was friends with the patient before they were a patient? Wouldn't that mean that there is nothing to it. Or once they are a patient you have to cut your ties with your friends?

Oh Carol. I've sent you a PM. Chat to you soon. *hugs* Chin up, things will get better.

I hope I will be right to find a job when I finish nursing...

Well done Carol. I hope it works out well for you. Glad you are excited about it! You sound very happy!

Yay! Good work and good luck!

Thanks Carol. I'm hoping that I will be able to find some work within the Health Care scope while I'm studying. I'm looking every day for jobs within Health Care. Admin/PCA whatever. I also have some contacts so maybe they'll be able to help me too. One friend works at a hospital and another works at an Aged Care Home. Hope your assignments are going well.

ok so i have done some reading up on america's healthcare system. it's a bit overwhelming trying to understand it all. thanks to dthfytr for explaining it very simplistically to me. i am still curious though as to how prescriptions and doctors visits work? is it basically that you can't visit a gp without insurance, or they are just that expensive that if you don't have insurance most people can't afford to visit them? the link below explains australia's health system so maybe if someone reads that they would understand where my confusion comes from. http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/healthcare.html

Good luck!!

Yes I agree. Basic needs such as healthcare should be the most important thing politicians think about. Our healthcare system isn't perfect either and in certain areas it's worse but I admit that I do feel better having our system. Very enlightening chat. Thank you.

I've officially applied for Nursing now! Put in my application today, so now just have to wait for the results. Should hear back around November I hope. I'm going to do it via distance education through UniSA as I'll be living in Tasmania by the time I start and it won't be too much of a flight (at least in comparison to what I usually do). Fingers crossed!!!!

Thanks Carol. Yeah I'm doing a short course at the moment through work to be able to be an assessor within the VET structure. So I know how annoying it is to be working and trying to do assignments. Hopefully though I will either be working at the mines or doing work within the Health department when/if I get into Nursing. I will PM you when I find out whether I got in or not. Hope everything else is getting better for you. Haven't heard back from you for a little while besides today .

I kinda experienced it...but from the patient side. I was sick and had to get an IV in due to dehydration. I was about 7/8 and I know I fought the nurses, no one was gonna stick me with that huge needle. They had to hold me down too - 3 people in the end I think. But then I had a phobia of nurses and doctors and needles after a doctor cut my hand open with scissors without anasthetic trying to get stitches out.