Are Doctors Fighting To Protect Turf At Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

Submitted by C Newton

Dr. James (l), Minister of Health Donville Inniss (r) - Image/Barbados Advocate

The pending industrial action at the QEH can only be about greed by the doctors and sensational behaviour of the NUPW. Speaking to a union delegate to the issue, it is a case of  relief workers  who are also called casual workers. These are only called  in by management to fill in when someone is on holiday or sick leave.

The NUPW is claiming that they have an expectation to fill any suitable vacancies over anyone else. QEH Board has taken the position that it must hire the best persons at all levels, like private sector companies do, and are seeking to put clear recruitment policies in place.

As a former Salesman of Hospital Supplies, I will give an example. Meal carts being sold to QEH for as much as $10,000 when the real cost was $2,500 unpadded. Mr Dexter James, the Minister and Board must stop people from outsourcing to themselves. The mafia style syndicate must be broken up among QEH doctors and employees. Consultants cannot continue to give private patients priority over public ones. The QEH must  work on a formula on consultants public\ private consultations, thus the resistance to accountability.

My girlfriend works in the Lab and has told me that many a times they are limited reagents. Yet some doctors would drop off their specimens from their private practice to be tested. Can these things be fair to the tax payers of Barbados? If the doctors want to strike let the greedy ones strike. I will give the Ministry of Health my support if they fire them for withholding services to the poor.

Some doctors even got the gall to charge more for first visits, thus pushing health care inflation to be the highest in the Caribbean. Mr Minister, you have my support, the QEH is ailing, you need to take corrective measures before it goes on life support.
Please give a chance to  younger but often times better trained doctors, the chance to move up.

227 Responses to Are Doctors Fighting To Protect Turf At Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

  1. David
    “… If I were the Minister of Health I would be on my way to Cuba right now to barter for 30-40 doctors to work contract for 6-12 months…”

    That be spirit Davey, that be spirit …

  2. Anonymous
    “… Doctors as a group are among the most educationally accomplished and thus probably among the most intelligent …”

    Wit respect, maybe it time, now more than ever, to give serious look at forming working group to draft white paper on modern day definition in Barbadian context of word “Intelligent” … no?

  3. Mr Wickham not read email …Mr Wickham not read email … Not very professional … But Chairman put on very impressive performance, very impressive … Maybe Chairman run for praty president and then seat in House and then Prime Minister ..no? Better attractive than Sinkler and Fumble …no?

  4. Georgie Porgie

    CCC
    How can I be part of a problem from which I am far removed?
    Didn’t Eustine teach you common sense. You said that Mia controlling BAMP and ordering the doctors, now you suggesting that I telling the doctors what to do in a diplomatic way
    You are so amusing. Thanks.

    Why dont you get the Minister and the DLP to fix Health in Barbados?
    and the solution does not lie in fixing only the hospital and firing doctors. LOL

    And by the way I have as much right as any one on BU to comment on matters of Health.

    And your attemptrs to discredit me will not stop me from laughing at the chaos caused by these men WITH GUTS AND BALLS!

    Perhaps the doctors have guts and balls too NO? LOL.

    You not cussing the Minister who is on his Mediteranean cruise. He has had almost two years. So far he has excelled in photo ops and teaching Dr James the information he recieved via email prior to the last election. You make me laugh.

  5. Georgie Porgie

    Oh BTW CCC
    Didnt you say that the QEH is an excellent institution in a previous post on this thread? Was this BEFORE or after the political posting of the priest with scrotal magnitude?

  6. BAFBFP
    re: the intelligence of doctors; note the caveat “probably”.

    Cadogan:
    re: in awe of Mia; please note the use of sarcasm. However, I am not so sure that you are not in awe of her given that you suggest that she is controlling the doctors.

  7. Georgie Porgie

    Anonymous
    Re
    The DLP has been in office over 2 years and other than the “discovery” of room in A and E by Estwick when he was Minister of Health, pray tell us what initiative have the DLP made at the QEH?

    This is a question that is worthy of note.
    This is part of the crux of the matter.
    FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES IN HEALTH IN BARBADOS IS THE REASON FOR THE DIVERSIONS WE ARE SEEING HERE

    AND THE SOLUTION?
    I THINK THEY SHOULD FIRE ALL THE DOCTORS. THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM. AFTER ALL WE PAID FOR THEIR EDUCATION.

    Having paid for their education SUE THEM AND REPLACE THEM BY CUBANS! LOL

    do as David suggests David Let Donville go to Cuba right now to barter for 30-40 doctors to work contract for 6-12 months…”
    And after the six months. THE WHOLE PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED.! HILARIOUS!

    And I must agree with you the person who opined that BAMP & the doctors march to the tune of Mia’s drum is the height of PARANOIA. HILARIOUS!

    This is just a case of BAMP BALLS & GUTS versus that of DONVILLE son of the fisherman (and I quote David here) and that of the politically positioned priest. Why doesn’t the priest PRAY on the matter? Can he not cast out the demons?

    I hope that all of the Junior doctors have taken the ECFMG exams or are working thereon, so that they can go elsewhere after their internships are over. For they have no guaranrteed jobs adfter internship. When the Cuban doctors arrive and all the testosterone is demonstrated, and the proposed suing is complete they must prepare for their future.

    You guys seeing one side of the equation.

  8. Georgie Porgie

    Brutus

    Parts of your post of August 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM makes some sense.

    I don’t think they are striking about Emptage’ s departure, because I understand that he is not particularly loved by them because he is abrasive.

    Re Do not underestimate the pressure that can be brought to bear on the junior doctors to break ranks and go back to work tomorrow. There will be pressure from government, from the hospital administration, from patients, from friends and family of patients, from friends and families of the doctors themselves, from all conceivable sources. Most of all each one will face the weight of his/her own conscience. The doctors will have to REALLY believe that what they are striking for is more important than the pain and suffering of their patients.

    How long, in the face of this pressure, does GP think the junior doctors will be prepared to hold out?

    I have seen the boys strike for about a week in 1980! And if they are just doing emergencies they can hold out. You or I do not know exactly why the doctors are striking. As I have said before I can only think of the strike in 1980 and the strike re the 8 % cut in 1991 0r 1992 when the doctors have taken such action in the last 30 years. Maybe some one can remind me of any occasions that I have forgotten!

    SO ALL THE NASTY HATEFUL REMARKS ARE UNWARRANTED!

    Re Look for the industrial action to be halted tomorrow, pending further discussion with the hospital administration. ………..That is a simple matter to resolve, and if the dismissal was done inappropriately I would hope that the Chairman of the Board is a big enough man to admit that and do it the right way.

    Yes I would hope that he would handle his BALLS & GUTS more appropriately. LOL
    I am sure that the sacerdote has found out that BAMP has balls too! Dont you think?

  9. GP
    I believe you may be underestimating the significance of the discovery of that room. (I am not sure about it myself but the PM actually mentioned this as an achievement in health care). To be fair, it was also recommended that some potted plants be placed in A and E. This contributed immeasurably to improved patient care, we were told. We have been told that Minister Inniss is off cruising (lucky fellow) but what of Senator Sandiford-Garner? Wasn’t she assigned special responsibility for the QEH? Is it that the issue does not involve organising a fete or a celebration so it is not a good fit with her skill set? Weren’t we told that all the problems at the QEH were due to the BLP? Well we got rid of the BLP and (surprise) the problems are still there. According to Cadogan, it is still the BLP, who is really behind it all! Anyway since we can’t get the doctors out of the clutches of the BLP, let’s get them out of the QEH. With a priest as chairman, the healing power of prayer is really all we need.

  10. Georgie Porgie

    Bush Tea
    Re
    Fortunately for us, most of the doctors in Barbados are not like GP. Most actually are interested in the welfare of their patients and of the country as a whole. (for one thing they have CHOSEN to remain here and contribute their skills unlike some others who ran away when faced with a simple challenge).

    You didn’t take long before you took a nasty shot at me, could you? You cant help it can’t you? LOL Fortunately God is my judge.

    Are you willing to go to court and defend the statement that I did not care for my patients?

    There were 5 Bajans in my class at UWI. How many of them are practicing in Barbados today? 1

    How many served 100% of their time practicing in Barbados when they practiced 1 ME.

    I contributed my skills when allowed to do so. And I left to go overseas when it pleased me. And you do not know of the challenges I faced. You keep adjudicating without the facts. But you will not stop me from saying what I feel like on BU.

    If you are satisfied with your caring, selfless and dedicated personal doctor why don’t you get him to solve the health situation?

    Do you think that I am less caring, selfless and dedicated as a teacher of Basic Sciences?

    RE What is at issue is the use of the ORGANIZATION of doctors, controlled by a few, to hold the sick of the country to ransom and to intimidate those doctors who may disagree with the tactics being employed.

    This BS! You made it very clear earlier that it was about BALLS & GUTS! Again you indicate that the MOH seeks to “to intimidate those doctors who may disagree with the tactics being employed.”

    INSTEAD OF GETTING A PROPER PROGRAM IN PLACE THEY SEEK TO INTIMIDATE BY BALLS & GUTS. What did they expect? Not BALLS & GUTS IN RETURN?
    The Health system in Barbados is controlled by A FE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH NOT BY THE DOCTORS IN HOSPITAL
    Junior doctors come and go . The system does not promote their lengthy stay. And a few consultants DO NOT CONTROL THE HOSPITAL! THERE IS A BOARD LED BY A PRIEST WITH BALLS & GUTS! LOL

    The DLP presented little about Health in their manifesto!

    They obviously had NO plans for health, except to build the polyclinic in Gall Hill.
    They had no Public Health policy.
    They have no persons employed with a VISION for the Public Health of Barbados, despite that there are a few doctors and nurses with MPH degrees.
    THEY HAVE NO PLAN NO POLICY
    EVERYTHING REVOLVES AROUND HOSPITAL REFORM

    IS THAT NOT CLEAR TO YOU? AND CCC?

    Re No one doubts that doctors can be nasty if they really want to be.
    We were all under the impression that very very few would want to be so, and that all of the others would never stand for such from those few……thanks for wising us up.
    Please kindly note that doctors are part of the Bajan society, and they mirror all the traits of our society
    And you are a stinking liar! None of you were under any impression that that very very few would want to be nasty. If you are, you are down right stupid BECAUSE IT IS KNOWN THAT ALL MEN ARE SINNERS, and the heart of men is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, as written.
    If the Chairman of the Board and Donville as Bajans can display their BALLS & GUTS in public why do you suppose that BAMP can not do the same? Don’t BAMP members also have testosterone levels too? Or have they had bilateral orchidectomies?
    Re ….were Bush Tea the chairman of the QEH Board, all hell would probably break loose bout here….. indeed, were BT in charge of anything, you would be sure to see some degree of disruption (cause BT have a severe problem with foolishness…) ….but rest assured that the end result would be top performance.
    LOL It seems that BAMP have a similar severe problem with foolishness hence their action. LOL The Board’s BALLS AND GUTS vs BAMP BALLS & GUTS. I am getting the impression that the QEH Board and BT are arrogant dictators of some sort ! LOL Seems BAMP have called their bluff!
    You have brought in a Consultant to fix the hospital
    He has been taught about the existing resources in the periphery and how they ought to be used. Can he do it sitting on his BACKTERIUM in the hospital or Jemmots Lane.
    You who are omniscient and all wise, why don’t you sit with your caring, selfless and dedicated personal doctor and why don’t you get him to help solve the health situation?

    I will stay here and do some 3/10 teaching and see if I can make a likkle living until God ready for me. In the interim I will have a ball laughing at the nonsense I read on BU.

    Let me have a BALL reading about the doctors of Barbados are INTIMIDATED and controlled by a priest with BALLS & GUTS. LOL Its hilarious BT. Simply hilarious

    Let me read about how Mia controlling BAMP! Mu

  11. @GP

    Alot of what you are responding to is political posturing, frustration or both. People are just fedup with what has been going at the QEH for the last 30 years.

  12. “BALLS & GUTS in public why do you suppose that BAMP can not do the same? Don’t BAMP members also have testosterone levels too? ”

    Aha … Now if medics in government employ considered to be part of emergency service (or what ever it called) and not allowed to strike … I see great promise for future … No more “BALLA & GUTS ! LOL” …no?

  13. Georgie Porgie

    David
    One of the solutions as clearly articulated on BU in 2008 is to take the weight off the hospital.
    It requires WILL
    WORK
    UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO GO ABOUT IT
    FUNDS
    EQUIPMENT
    SOME TRAINING

    Not square pegs in round holes or hospital boards with balls
    Nor does it require expatraire hospital directors

    HE IS NOT TRAINED NOR DOES HE HAVE THE VISION TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

    I dont have a MPH or a PhD nor nuttin so
    But I didnt have nuttin so in 1985 either MY GUTS WAS NOT BIG YET LOL!
    But I had the courage to go against the plan that was paid for from the overseas consultants At that time BT’s doctor and the rest were closing ranks not to work for Government 24/7, and they were closing ranks and preparing to fight Adams on the issue.

    I wrote PM Adams, and I have his reponse up to today. But he soon died. Or things might have been different, because he really loved the British NHS. He saw it as a younster in the early 50′s soon after its inception and it really impressed him. But I had been reading about it for three years in the Journal of the GP association of the UK and realised that it could not work for us 35 years later.

    Many on this blog are engaging in emotional rants. They dont know at all the amount of distress the doctors go through before deciding to strike. And I know what I am speaking about. I am here joking, but whether you believe me or not, I dont thinlk that they have taken this decision lightly.

    And as much as we complain, even with high priced insurance even US residents do not have the comprehensive system we have n nor with with as easy access

    What we need now David is a MAN or men of action! And freedom to act……..not men with big balls and guts.

    You might say we had two doctors at the helm recently but did they have the WILL OR WISDOM OR VISION.
    WHERE THERE IS NO VISION THE PEOPLE PERISH!
    It is laughable to have some likkle girl from St Andrew in charge of some Hospital Project.
    I going to sleep hear? LOL

  14. @ Hants
    Reads like rich man argument … We in East very envious of Canadian model …!

  15. I just love how GP, consistent with his arguments, rips into the rubbish posted by some who with their myopic, hypocritical and unsound arguments often vacillate then capitulate.

  16. Enuff
    After reading the headline of the Nation news today GP and Mia are now looking real foolish. The caring doctors at the QEH complain about the uncaring Dr. Rambarat not coming out to do CT scans at night compromising patient care. Patients cannot get X-rays. Now from watching ER on television it looks like CT scans and X-rays are crucial for the survival of some patients.
    Now GP put forward your long drawn out reasons why Dr. Rambarat should not be fired. Maybe some persons would have died with his uncaring behavior.
    Mia Mottley has a problem trying to match Owen Arthur statement for statement. Mia said she would talk to BAMP all night until the problem is rectified. Her problem would be that Dr. Rambarat DON’T COME OUT AT NIGHT.
    I think Mia quest to be in the news is hurting her image. She is taking sides with the rich doctors against poor Barbadians. She should call Dr.Rambarat and curse he stink for putting Barbadian lives at risk.

  17. @ Fairplay
    Even proves GP’s thesis more!!!!

  18. Fairplay is certainly not fair. GP has not defended anyone, neither doctors nor QEH administration. He has merely predicted their behaviour based on his experiences. In the light of today’s headlines he seems to be “on the money”. GP has consistently pointed out that doctors are human and as such are capable of being wicked and wrong (as well as just and right). However, since plumbers can’t fix my leaky heart valves, we still need to engage these same doctors. The challenge is to find the appropriate arrangements which will generally satisfy both patients and doctors.

  19. Man, What kind of right thinking bajans are you? Dr.Rambarat does need no appropriate arrangement. He needs to get out of the system so that poor working class bajans can get adequate health care.

  20. I know we can find well trained radiographers in Cuba who want to work. The problem is the medical board does not accept Cuban trained doctors unless they take some exam. Patrick Manning former T&T PM got all his heart and kidney treatment in Cuba and he is doing very well .There are many Cuban doctors working in T&T hospitals, why not here.
    The national development scholarship should have as priority, specialty areas such as radiography, urology, and neurology. No students should be given
    any scholarship for actuarial science. Every year one of those scholarship winners says they are doing actuarial science. Over the years most of them may have graduated. Lets concentrate on other areas of development such as health care

  21. Fairplay
    by ‘appropriate arrangements” I am referring to the development and improvement of the health care system not to an individual case. There is another consultant (specialty: think of an organ in the chest) at the hospital who is also very tardy in providing reports and even in turning up for work at the QEH. Yet I don’t hear of him being fired but then again his party is in power.

  22. Georgie Porgie

    Anonymous
    It seems that you and Enuff are among the few who can understand the information I have sought to share I have certainly not defended the doctors, but merely predicted their behaviour based on my experiences with my colleagues over the years. Youu have again understood what I have pointed out when you posit “GP has consistently pointed out that doctors are human and as such are capable of being wicked and wrong (as well as just and right).
    Your conclusion is also correct ……. . The challenge is to find the appropriate arrangements which will generally satisfy both patients and doctors.
    This certainly will not happen if a politically positioned priest thinks that he has more balls and guts than BAMP balls and guts!

    Balls and guts WILL NOT WIN THIS BATTLE. He WILL NOT CONTROL THE DOCTORS BY CONFLICT. HE WILL FIND THAT BAMP WILL SQUEEZE HIS BALLS! And if you know Any thing about the nerve supply of the balls, you will know that squeezing the balls hurts even at the heart- as is now figuratively and literally the case! Ah lie?

  23. The latest furor in a statement made by Dr Carlos Chase this morning claiming that the Chairman Guy Hewitt was out of line on a TV Show last night.

    Also it appears Minister Donville Innis is very much in Barbados. Who is the liar?

  24. Georgie Porgie

    Fair Play
    Dr.Rambarat IS NOT STOPPING poor working class Bajans from gettting adequate health care. He might be guilty of not coming out at night, but that alone does not prevent Bajans from getting health Care.

    Answer this question? Does he not gave a Registrar? If not why not? Is he the only Consultant for Radiology? If so, why so?

    Are they no Bajan Radiology consultants since Decaires and the late Dalton Durant?
    If not why not? Is it because Bajan doctors don’t like to practice Radiology? You talk about scholarships. How will you get Bajan doctors to pursue training in Radiology if such a scholarship is available? Will Donville and the silly sacerdote display their BALLS & GUTS and intimidate them and force them to go ?
    . Why has NO VISION BEEN DISPLAYED IN HAVING SOME PERSONS TRAINED.

    Re I know we can find well trained radiographers in Cuba who want to work WELL GO GET THEM, man.
    The problem is the medical board does not accept Cuban trained doctors unless they take some exam. Why is this a problem Sir? You think you can do a residency in the US before taking USMLE steps 1 2 &3? You think you can practice in the USA without serving as a Resident for at least three years (and more in some disciplines) and then passing the Board exam?

    Re The national development scholarship should have as priority, specialty areas such as radiography, urology, and neurology. GREAT! Then we will get Donville and the silly sacerdote to display their BALLS & GUTS and intimidate and force our doctors to go and study these areas against their will?

    Hello friend, we still have free choice in Bim. It is not a dictatorrship yet man.

    There are many Cuban doctors working in T&T hospitals, why not here. Maybe its because we train our own doctors? You do know too that the training at our Medical School is highly rated by the External Examiners who see our examination process annually for over 60 years.

    are many Cuban doctors working in T&T hospitals, why not here.? Donville and the silly sacerdote display their BALLS & GUTS and intimidate them and force them to go ?

    Do you know anything at all….ANYTHING about what you are saying Sir?

  25. What will they think of next

    If Dr.Rambarat is being paid to be on call and then he refuses to come out at night when he is called then he should be charged with fraud. He is receiving money under false pretenses. I wonder how many more consultants are like this.

  26. Georgie Porgie

    Re Fair Play | August 16, 2010 at 7:52 AM | and
    After reading the headline of the Nation news today GP and Mia are now looking real foolish.

    This moron with betzpaenia and the inability to comprehend sounds off again!

    Now tell us Sir What did Mia say in this extract below that is not sound, sane, sober, and sensible?

    MIA MOTTLEY says if she was Prime Minister of Barbados, she would have met with the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) day and night to resolve the impasse between them and the Board of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

    Mottley, the Opposition Leader and long-standing member for St Michael East, told a Press conference on Saturday that the dispute was unfortunate.

    She said that BAMP had legitimate concerns and had chosen to take a path to protect those cases which they believed to be life-threatening.

    “I believe that the whole episode is unfortunate and if I were there, I would have to be meeting with them all day and night such that the circumstances of regularity can obtain back at the hospital.

    “This is a matter that should have been the subject of bringing all the parties together to get back a situation of normalcy as a matter of urgency from Friday lunchtime when it was clear that an industrial impasse was at hand,” she said.

    Mottley was of the view that Governments were not the ideal entities to manage health care institutions.

    Certainly the conflict might be resolved by discussion1
    Surely It has not been resolved by a display of BALLS & GUTS!

    Now Mr Fairplay goes into fantasy land. He says . Now from watching ER on television it looks like CT scans and X-rays are crucial for the survival of some patients.

    My Twit Sir Do you really think that CT scans and X-rays are crucial for the survival of some patients . CT scans and X-rays are DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS TO FACILITATE DIAGNOSIS.

    Do you know that UWI students are trained to make the diagnosis BEFORE ordering tests.

    I recently read a post on Value MD by an American student who had the privilege of spending some time training at UWI. He said they put you in a room and expect to come up with the diagnosis with only your stethoscope.

    Mr bumbling bird brain betzpenis babbler DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE STUDIES THAT INDICATE THAT THE TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT IMPROVE RESULTS OR PATIENT OUTCOMES COMPARED TO THOSE ACHIEVED AT INSTITUTIONS ELSEWHWERE WHERE THE TECHNOLOGY IS UNAVAILABLE?

    Mr Clown STOP WATCHING ER! A LOT OF BAD MEDICINE IS DISPLAYED THEREON. YOU KNOW NO MEDICINE SO THE TECHNOLOGY AND THE JUNK YOU SEE CAPTIVATES YOUR PEA SIZED IMAGINATION DOESN’T IT?
    WHAT DO YOU WANT WHEN YOU ARE ILL FICTION AND FANTASY OR FACT.

    Go back and read the news papers again, and note that the CARING DOCTORS ARE CARING ABOUT THEMSELVES WHEN THEY CANT GET THE TECHNOLOGY AT NIGHT! THEY WANT TO COVER THEIR ASSES FOR MEDICO LEGAL REASONS! LOL AND I DON’T BLAME THEM! WHO WANTS TO BE SUED?

    Here you Mr dimwit dummy The caring doctors at the QEH complain about the uncaring Dr. Rambarat not coming out to do CT scans at night compromising patient care

    Do you understand why now? Do you think that Frank Ward and Mickey Walrond and Spotty Clark and others of that ilk had CT scans at night?…or at all in the 70’s?

    PATIENTS ARE TREATED BY FDOCTORS NOT CT SCANS.
    IN MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD THEY DON’T HAVE THEM AND THEY GET GOOD RESULTS!

    You say . Patients cannot get X-rays
    Really? And this is the Consultants fault?
    Seems to me that THE MINISTER AND THE PRIEST WITH BALLS IS AT FAULT HERE SIR. THERE SEEMS TO BE A WOEFUL LACK OF PROVISION not just an uncaring doctor.

    Do you think that a Consultant Radiologist should come out at night to do routine X rays?
    Where are the Radiographers ? Why doesn’t the Consultant have a Registrar?

    I don’t know Dr. Rambarat Nor do I know the facts in the case. So have not defended him at all Nor can I or will I defend him If he gets fired that is his business. And I do not have to put forward a reason why he should not be fired.

    But from this distance though it seems as if he is the Radiology Dept. He has no Registrar or House men. And apparently not enough Radiographers working at night?
    IT SEEMS THAT THE MINISTER AND THE PRIEST WITH BALLS EVINCE A WOEFUL LACK OF PROVISION WOEFUL LACK OF PROVISION

    What ever Rambarat’s fault is, if he is not given up by BAMP, you or none of the emotional ranters on BU cant touch him.

    Why should Mia call Rambarat and curse he stink for putting Barbadian lives at risk.
    You think that lives are at risk because some one does not get a CT scan. What happened before their availability. DIS PATIENTS DIE EN MASSE?

    Let me tell you a big secret about that dummy…..THEY DID NOT! LOL

    You are an under 15 cricketer trying to play in a test match!

  27. Georgie Porgie

    This section from Mia’s submission as reported in the newspapers is PURE JUNK, in my humble opinion!

    But I am a crimminal because I dont rant and rave because BAMP has gone on strike, and because I dont believe that GUTS & BALLS is the way to resolve the situation. But I have always been independent of thought, and usually above the herd- amd I make no apology for telling the truth.

  28. @ Georgie Porgie
    I have been saying for months that too many of the BU ‘intelligentsia’ are very good at copying, pasting and reading BUT extremely poor at analysis.

  29. @Anonymous

    Who is the other Consultant who does not come out on call?

    It appears public opinion is mounting against the doctors. The Chairman i.e. the one with balls is waging a PR campaign which is highly effective. Nothing like a man in a collar to evoke the sympathy of a frustrated public.

    Hell he forced BAMP to come to the airwaves today. BU sources had long ago confirmed that BAMP had placed a blackout on media interviews.

  30. Georgie Porgie

    Enuff writes and CORRECTLY SO
    I have been saying for months that too many of the BU ‘intelligentsia’ are very good at copying, pasting and reading BUT extremely poor at analysis.

  31. Georgie Porgie

    Enuff
    You have correctly opined that too many of the BU ‘intelligentsia’ are very good at copying, pasting and reading BUT extremely poor at analysis

    .
    BAMP HAS STRUK FACT !
    THE Y DON’T OFTEN DO THIS FACT!
    Question is why? Why now?

    I am hearing nothing about this

    Now we hearing that the priest with maximus balls has gone BALL-istic!

    When he is finished appealing to the public David, he will still have to sit down and TALK TO BAMP. LOL.

    They will fix his herniae and his goadies

    Is public opinion mounting because the public thinks that junior doctors are rich? And taking advantage of the populace? Check the Gazette and see their salaries.

    Why does Reverend Maxy Balls not tell the Public about the Board’s and the Ministries deficiencies?
    Why does Reverend Maxy Balls NOT go and pray or better read Joshua 7
    THERE IS A PROBLEM IN THE CAMP MAXY BALLS
    Ermine has no balls or testosterone David, but she got Reverend Maxy Balls by the balls and it hurting!
    THE DLP IN OFFICE THREE YEARS
    THEY HAD PRIVATE LESSONS ON HOW TO FIX THE HOSPITAL BY EASING UP THE PRESSURE ON THE HOSPITAL
    WHAT HAVE THEY DONE ABOUT IT? NOTHING except BRING Rev Maxy Balls to fire doctors. And a Trini to tell the public the stuff he learned from the current Minister , who had the private lessons first……long before it appeared on BU.

  32. Can’ get blasted survey to work … instructions not in Putonghua ..#$@$..!

  33. It has to be said. GP, for a doctor, you are one sickening idiot! Everything you post on BU is about YOU, YOU, YOU. Yuh blasted pompous shite!
    Your ideas. Your this. Your that. Stupse! Like ef you got a blasted monoply on ideas. And all ideas aint good ideas anyway.
    You went Harsun College fuh trute? Cos Harsonians don’t get-on lik idiots like you!! Yuh behavin like yuh went waterfurd. Keep blasted huffing and puffing pon is blog all day every day. Ah hope yuh gi’ yuhself a stroke or burst a vessel in that kiss-me-ass swell head o’ yours! Sick o’ you like shite! And I in wanna hear nuffin from u cos, nuffin u could got to say worth me wastin any more uh my time pon u. Yuh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssss! Ah gone!

  34. Carson C. Cadogan

    Georgie Porgie

    Don’t you realise that no one is taking you seriously. You are coming over as a buffoon.

  35. Georgie Porgie

    LOL
    HA HA HA
    huffin and puffin LOL

    Man I hear calmly doing a likkle work , and in between I likes to laff at the bovine excrement wunnah does write pun BU LOL

    Yes my ideas are stupid I know but the Consultant spewing them to the press. LOL

    SO THEN YOU PAYING A CONSULTANT TO GIVE STIPID IDEAS TO THE POPULACE

    Why dont you and others of your ilk come up with some good ones or better ones? LOL HA HA ROTFLMAO

    This ass has given more of an opinion than the hired help or you Sir. LOL
    Dont worry I wont be giving more.

    And BTW I will blow my trumpet here when I like I not giving my trumpet to anyone to blow for them to give me TB LOL ROTFLMAO.

    Why dont you go help the priest man? Cause you like you gone BALL -stic too

    Now look at you. You have no solutions.

    You can only try to curse me.

    THE DLP HAD NO HEALTH PLAN AT ELECTION TIME

    THEY STILL HAVE NONE

    AND THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH THE PRIVATE LESSONS OR THE PUBLIC LESSONS THEY GOT ON BU

    Now that you have cussed me, HAS BAMP CALLED OFF THE STRIKE YET?

    Or is ERMINE STILL SQUEEZING THE POLITICALLY POSITIONED PRIEST’S MAXY BALLS?

  36. GP
    I am really mashing your corns, if you have any. You are getting all rile up and shouting.
    It was not me who accuse Dr.Rambarat of not coming at night and doing CT scans and compromising patient care. It was two of your colleagues who are well trained doctors who said that at a medical staff committee meeting. Why don’t you quarrel with them that CT scans are not important?
    Those two doctors are caring doctors because they brought to light at their meeting the problems that are affecting them and their patients.
    Future governments will solve these problems by legislating that to be employed as a health worker in the government health sector you cannot go on strike. It will be considered an essential service.
    Now Mia had fourteen years in government and the health sector when from bad to worst. Prime Minister Owen Arthur got vex and fired three managers. The public see her intervention as strictly political posturing.

  37. Georgie Porgie

    Annonymous Sir

    Can I now give my advice to final year medical students and interns.

    Youngsters prepare and take the USMLE exams around the time or soon after you take yor finals at UWI

    At this time you are at your peak in all areas. You will past easily even though you have not prepared for the exam as the Americans do.

    when you finish your internship GO AND DO YOUR RESIDENCY IN THE USA

    EVERYPLACE IN THE WORLD LOVE THESE US QULIFICATIONS MAN

    Dont hang around to be replaced by CUBANS OR CONTROLLED BY PRIESTS OR A MOTTLEY BU NCH

    Dont stay around to be cussed by every Tom Dick & Harry in Bim. YOU CAN DO BETTER.

    These days you can do a Masfters in the Basic Sciences at Cave Hill. This will help yopu to get a teaching job on the side.

    Dont be all so patriotic like I was. When they dont want to pay you because they can get an intern or some one from Cuba or God knows where to work for less they will fire you in just the same way these Consultants were fired WITHOUT EXPLANATION OR REASDON.

    Now BT you and others can cuss me some more.

    When the NHS came into being in 1985 VERY FEW BAJANS JOINED THEY WENT AND DID PRIVATE PRACTICE

    12 YEARS LATER WHEN I WAS RECIEVING CONSULTANT PAY THEY FELT THAT WAS TOO MUCH FOR ME

    I HAD TO GO QUIETLY BECAUSE I WAS NOT A BAMP MEMBER!

    WHAT EVER YOU DO JOIN BAMP

    THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

    THE DOCTORS ALSO HAVE THEIR SIDE.

    Sort your selves out! ASSURE YOUR SALVATION BEFORE MAXY BALLS AND OTHERS OF HIS ILK SQUEZZE YOUR BALLS.

    If there was not a God in heaven to provide for me daily I would be destitute.

    Watch the herd come out in full force now! LOL ROTFLMAO

    The so called BU family members dont like to hear the truth. Only those they approve must have balls and guts and defy the opinion of the herd.

  38. Man David help me get survey to work …nuh?

  39. Georgie Porgie

    Fair Play

    Let me assure you that if you think that you are mashing my corns that you have DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR! And no I have no corns.

    Secondly I am not at all riled up. I am just mocking you

    And I am NOT shouting I do not consider typing in capitals SHOUTING . I type in capitals for EMPHASIS and to get across the intensity of my HILARITY.

    I don’t think that you realize that I don’t care two hoots about either Ram RAT or Empty- age!

    Did you not read in the newspapers that the doctors were concerned about not having CT scans because OF ITS MEDICO LEGAL IMPORTANCE!

    You seem not to understand that there WAS MEDICINE BEFORE CT SCANS and in some parts of the world still CT SCANS ARE NOT AVAILABLE. DO YOU THINK THAT ALL THE PATIENTS THAT DON’T GET A CT SCAN DIE?

    Do you think that because you are a medical illiterate that I don’t know what I am saying?

    Do you think that because your bias precluded your unwillingness and your betzpaenia your ability to understand, that I don’t know of which I speak?

    Do you think that I am unaware of all the nonsense that Owen Arthur and Mia did? I do not care what the public sees about Mia’s statement. I thought that some were accurate and I said so. I thought that some was junk and I said so too.

    Wist thou not that I myself confronted Arthur and Mia and others of their ilk in the late 90’s.

    Re Future governments will solve these problems by legislating that to be employed as a health worker in the government health sector you cannot go on strike. It will be considered an essential service. Great ! And how will they police it. How will they stop folk from being at work, and not working, or from getting sick notes signed by duly registered medical practicioners, who in their opinion think that their colleagues are ill.

    WHEN WILL YOU TAKE YOUR MYOPIC GLAUCOMIS CATARAC EYES OF THE DOCTORS AND DEAL WITH THE ISSUES. THE REAL ISSUES? Is it because you lack the necessary neurons to cerebrate?

    I am not defending doctors nor ram rat or empty age or a soul

    I am having fun mocking your poor pithy puerile pedantic efforts at lashing the doctors.

    These men can not be touched UNLESS BAMP GIVES THEM OVER.

    Don’t knock me go and join with the priest for this mess to be over. Pray that he forgets his testosterone and talk to BAMP man.

  40. @BAFBFP

    Not sure what you are attempting.

  41. Georgie Porgie

    this is the section of the news paper article that quotes Mia that I consider to be nonsense.

    The first half was true.

    We have to have a coalition of health care professionals as well as representation from the patients perspective, be at the centre of the management of medical institutions in this country.

    “The truth is that the bureaucracy of Government, and we tried to allay some of it when we created the Board, but unfortunately this Government seems to be running the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Board as if it is still a department of the ministry and that is where the problems come,” she said.

    The Opposition Leader thinks that more might have to be done to place distance between management of the hospital and the ministry of health.

    “We may well be coming to the point where the Government should simply accept what is the per capita costs of the treatment of patients in the hospital, placed a cap on it and provide that money without seeking to get into the finer details of the management of the hospital on a day to day basis and leave it to the health care professionals to do.”

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  43. smooth chocolate

    I think the consultants should be removed. They have been too comfortable for too long. I guess they assumed that they were invincible well they are not.