Tuesday 14 September 2010

PLAYING DOCTORS AND NURSES?

About 30 years ago I was in a relationship with a nurse who although not qualified was good at her job and was very capable of gaining nursing qualifications. The reason she did not do so was because on qualifying many nurses were not being offered jobs and she feared that she would become unemployed if she did gain a qualification. Many nurses were not employed on qualifying.
Since then of course the NHS has scoured the world for nurses, often poorly trained and with little knowledge of English and Western hygene.
The results have been evident for all to see in the increased hospital infections owing to inadequate cleaning and barrier precautions.

I read in the paper today that over a thousand newly qualified British doctors are surplus to requirements but at the same time they are recruiting doctors from the third world, who have little knowledge of British culture or language. They are expected to communicate and empathise with often elderly patients who have been fortunate enough to escape the modern vibrant and diverse society until now when they are vulnerable and can do little about it.
Many of these foreign doctors have obtained their qualifications at such centres of excellence as are found in the Congo, Malawi or some such place.
Meanwhile doctors trained here at great expense to the taxpayer leave medical schools with massive debts and find themselves , highly trained professionals unemployed in their own country . They are then forced to take their skills abroad and are lost to our society which trained them.

Is it any wonder that medical mishaps are so frequent? Ias it any wonder that patients say they can not communicate with their GPs.
I am not saying that all foreign doctors are inefficient or dangerous, some are excellent,but many are not and a liabiliy to the NHS.

Now it is often said that the NHS would collapse without foreign doctors. Yes it would because British doctors and nurses have failed to gain employment here. If we kept our own well trained people here we would not be dependent on what the third world has to offer.

But why is this happening or allowed to happen? I am beginning to think there is an ulterior motive at work here. What possible reason could there be for encouraging our best to leave while having them replaced by the mediocre from all over the world.?
It is certainly not to improve the working of the National health SERVICE.

I believe it is part of a plan to so disrupt our country that we British people are so dependent on foreigners even in the sphere of so vital provision as our health that we will be as powerless as the Orwellian pawns in the New World Order our political elites seek.

SMOKING AT THE HOSPITAL

Wigan Infirmary has a few smoking shelters outside for those patients and staff who smoke. They plan to remove them on Oct 1st and make the entire site non-smoking. I reckon they should read this first:

SMOKING shelters for patients, visitors and staff have been reintroduced at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals.
Trust managers were forced into the U-turn because of safety issues around the number of people defying the five-year-old smoke-free policy.
As the Daily Echo reported in June, some patients had been caught smoking under the bedclothes, in stairwells, toilets, storerooms, courtyards and even next to the oxygen store. The fire service had been called out and staff had put out small fires with jugs of water.
Employees had been caught smoking in 21 areas around the Bournemouth site and six at Christchurch, leading to a build-up of debris and litter.
Smoking continues to be banned inside the hospitals. In the grounds, it is now restricted to newly-designated smoking areas or shelters.
The six areas at Bournemouth include the edge of the car park opposite the main entrance and the edge of the car park outside the emergency department.
At Christchurch, patients can smoke under supervision in the ward gardens and a smoking shelter has been provided in the car park behind the hospital. There is also a new smoking area at the trust’s sterile services unit at Alderney in Poole.
Staff at all three sites have been warned they face disciplinary action if they are caught smoking outside designated areas.
A spokesperson for the trust said: “The board agreed, reluctantly, to implement smoking areas as a way of minimising the risk of illicit smoking within our hospitals.
“The trust does not endorse or support smoking in any way.
“We have a health campaign in place, which includes working with SmokeStop services to educate staff and patients about the dangers of smoking and related illness.
“We are also promoting healthy living – for example, encouraging staff to take walks at lunchtime.
“The trust will monitor the impact of the policy, and if it is felt to be not working, it will be reviewed.”

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8386360.Bournemouth_Hospital_smoking_u_turn/

What do the bigwigs at the infirmary think will happen here?

I'll take a flying guess - the other side of the road will have a constant 50+ people having a smoke - patients and staff. Fine-ish for the staff, not so good for the patients in winter.  They may (or may not) have the power to impose their will on the staff - they certainly don't have such power over the patients.

I recommend the anti-smoking nazis have a policy rethink.

You might care to read this - which is where I got the story from. It has more information.

http://freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com/2010/09/you-are-always-on-my-mind.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FqZch+%28Freedom+To+Choose%29

Morg
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Fear and Uncertainty Have Paths of Their Own

Fear and uncertainty create patterns, paths of their own. And societies are again in a mosaic of uncertainty -- and resultant fear -- over the fate and durability of the social and security frameworks once taken for granted. Mass reaction to these fears will trigger transformative change. But there will be opportunities to seize and command change.
Almost all societies in the world have gone beyond the stage where they expect stability and linear progressions of the past to long endure. Some societies -- almost en bloc -- anticipate the end of their security; others anticipate the end of their suffering. Few expect insulation from change. That change, however, need not be entirely inscrutable if we look at global patterns and at historical human behaviour.
Economic Patterns: What we now call "economics" determines power and conflict patterns because wealth, or the deprivation of it, determines survival, and, for those who survive, "economics" determines the relative control they may have over individual and societal destiny. Thus social behavior determines economic viability, and the failure or success of economic patterns determines social corrective or compounding action.
We are about to see an acceleration of social reaction to economic failure - a reaction to the inflexibility of policies which have failed to adjust to changing circumstances.
Many finance ministers are speaking, still, as though their national economies can perform well with just minor adjustment to old patterns. This may not be so, particularly in the West, where the rapid growth in state revenues since the end of the Cold War pushed governments down the path of highly capital-intensive programs in areas which absolutely do not contribute to national productivity in essential manufactures or primary industry, and in many cases actually constrain productivity rises. As wealth grew, and tax revenues rose commensurately, the logical approaches of governments in market economies should have been to reduce taxation and further stimulate investment.
This occurred only rarely and incompletely. Taxpayers, also benefiting from rising wealth, themselves did not demand that governments constrain their spending. The situation thus created massive state sector positions in the Western economies. When recession strikes, industry and private citizens scale back and pay the price, but governments are less flexible. Unions and state workers make themselves immune to cuts and to the realities of the "real world".
In countries such as Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, and so on (and now the US, UK, Australia, etc.), those in the private sector who have come to rely on state handouts -- and therefore become "agents" for statism, and by default are opposed to market freedom -- compound the entrenched political class' view that the state should not undergo the kind of profound self-analysis and restructuring which the private sector must embrace.
The US, Australia, Greece, and so on, as just a few examples, are undergoing per capita productivity declines just at the time when they need to be developing a strategic buffer of internally-balanced economies and the ability to better compete internationally. And there is a fear that if wasteful government spending on huge capital projects ceases, then economies will collapse.
This fearful, selfish, and ignorant intellectual process within governments has been caused by the hubris generated by unfettered control of great wealth, and the presses which print the money. But governments only have the ability, in real terms, to dominate the non-productive -- or, at best, productivity-enabling infrastructure -- spending. Only by returning spending power to the innovative sections of society (in other words, the people) can economies become nimble and productive.
This is unlikely to happen, so we should expect sudden contractions in buying power in many Western states over the coming few years.
We are also already witnessing the contraction of some aspects of multinational mechanisms to amass and deploy capital wherever the market determines it can profitably be invested. Part of this contraction derives from the situation in which the world is entering a period where it may soon be without a viable global reserve currency. This in turn leads to the point where trade becomes more bilateral; investment scope becomes limited in some respects; and nationalism -- and with it, protectionism -- revives out of economic necessity.
There have been many factors leading to the revival of nationalism since the collapse of the brief (45 year) bipolar global strategic framework in 1990-91, and these were touched upon (certainly by this writer) from 1990 onward. So the seeming uncertainty in which we now find ourselves did not emerge suddenly or without understandable cause.
Perhaps, then, our "uncertainty" is not so uncertain?
Strategic Patterns: What clarity is emerging?
- Western economies will continue to decline, in real and strategic terms (if not in nominal accounting terms), unless truly radical re-structuring occurs, including the rapid and massive reduction of the size of government intervention in economies. This means an end to the era of entitlement welfare. However,
- No democratically-elected government will dare face voters if it reduces "bread for the masses", that method of cheaply buying votes. So most governments will continue to jeopardize their nations -- by continuing the bribery of the electorate -- in order to remain in office. Change, then, should only be expected through the appearance of massive threat, or national collapse, enabling the emergence of decisive leadership not based on the popular vote.
- Those states which abandon forms of taxation (such as those based on carbon emissions) which curb productivity will fare better than those which do not.
The immediate future, then, will be commanded not by electoral "democracies", but by decisive non-populist leaders who truly return productivity to the marketplace.
Russia and the People's Republic of China are thus favored.

Taken from an Email received from OilPrice.com

Protesting the Persecution of Pakistani Christians


Stories about arson, assault, and murder directed at Pakistan’s Christian community are commonplace. They come through the news feed almost every night.

The typical story begins when a rumor circulates among Muslims in Pakistan that Christians have done something heinous to Muslims, usually involving the desecration of the Koran. The stories inevitably prove to be unfounded, but the truth is no barrier to Muslim hysteria, and devout protesters go on the rampage sacking, burning, and killing

The following report from Pukaar News describes one such series of attacks, and the worldwide protests in its wake. Many thanks to
Vlad Tepes for YouTubing it:

by Baron Bodissey
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/09/protesting-persecution-of-pakistani.html




I have posted this in response to a comment (unpublished) we received asking for proof of persecution of Christians in Pakistan, where food and medical aid were denied to Pakistani Christians seeking aid in the recent floods unless they converted to Islam.
Though not related to the flood this still shows how Pakistani Christians are persecuted by Islamist Mohammedans.
Maybe the commentator thinks Islam is a Religion of Peace.
Maybe the commentator thinks 'Peace' means dead ?

yaz