At 01:42 15/12/01 +0100, you wrote: (Harry Pollard): >> We have thousands of bridges and other government constructions that are >> seriously under-maintained. You have thousands of patients who are all >> right so long as the hospitals don't run out of corridors to store them. (Christoph Reuss) >Who do you mean by "You have.." ? I haven't seen any hospitals where >the patients are being stored in the corridors.
In our neck of the woods (National Health Service: Bath/Bristol region) the hospitals store incoming patients in ambulances outside the hospital. Then they move into the corridors. Then, if they haven't died in the meantime, they might get a bed in a ward and be able to see a consultant a couple of days later. At least they did last winter, then there was a howl of protest, a hospital manager lost her job, but it'll happen again this winter. Keith Hudson ___________________________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________
