Momtezuma Tuatara
06-07-09, 10:53 AM
So HOW do they manage every year with ordinary flu, which causes SO MANY MORE DEATHS, and has a much higher rate of infection...
if
you
believe
the
stats
that
these
people
put
out ....... :giggle:
:alien:
Read this whole article first...:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/191_03_030809/eiz10737_fm.html
It is only due to the low virulence of the virus3 (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/191_03_030809/eiz10737_fm.html) that this pandemic has merely stressed our local service delivery and not completely paralysed both our and the statewide response.
.....
We in general practice are ready, willing and able to fulfil the central role expected of us in the AHMPPI, but it will be difficult or impossible to perform that role if we are not appropriately resourced. We cannot expose our doctors and nurses to risk of infection by having them perform high-risk procedures without proper supplies of PPE and readily available courses of antiviral therapy. Although this is primarily for the sake of their own occupational health and safety, it is also because most general practices are not large enough to remain operational with any significant level of staff absence.
(Yoo hoo??? !!!!!!! )
practices are not large enough to remain operational with any significant level of staff absence.
Unless the issues that face general practice are adequately addressed, I fear many GPs may limit their services during current and future influenza pandemics to the primary role of treating patients who do not have ILI. Anecdotal reports from GPs working in the three flu clinics in the northern suburbs of Melbourne reveal many examples of patients with ILI who were diverted directly to the flu clinics rather than being seen by their GPs. We are also aware that designated flu clinics and hospital emergency departments will struggle to cope with additional patient load.
Competing interests
I am a clinical trial investigator for influenza treatment and surveillance studies for Roche. I am a member of expert advisory panels for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) vaccines and Chair of a judging panel for the GSK Adult Immunisation Grants program. I have also been an educator, speaker and author for Divisions of General Practice immunisation education sessions, with funding having included contributions from GSK on several occasions.
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What a joke. Not. Can't these people see what fools they are making of themselves?
Page converted to pdf and attached, in case some porkie removes this one as well.
if
you
believe
the
stats
that
these
people
put
out ....... :giggle:
:alien:
Read this whole article first...:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/191_03_030809/eiz10737_fm.html
It is only due to the low virulence of the virus3 (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/191_03_030809/eiz10737_fm.html) that this pandemic has merely stressed our local service delivery and not completely paralysed both our and the statewide response.
.....
We in general practice are ready, willing and able to fulfil the central role expected of us in the AHMPPI, but it will be difficult or impossible to perform that role if we are not appropriately resourced. We cannot expose our doctors and nurses to risk of infection by having them perform high-risk procedures without proper supplies of PPE and readily available courses of antiviral therapy. Although this is primarily for the sake of their own occupational health and safety, it is also because most general practices are not large enough to remain operational with any significant level of staff absence.
(Yoo hoo??? !!!!!!! )
practices are not large enough to remain operational with any significant level of staff absence.
Unless the issues that face general practice are adequately addressed, I fear many GPs may limit their services during current and future influenza pandemics to the primary role of treating patients who do not have ILI. Anecdotal reports from GPs working in the three flu clinics in the northern suburbs of Melbourne reveal many examples of patients with ILI who were diverted directly to the flu clinics rather than being seen by their GPs. We are also aware that designated flu clinics and hospital emergency departments will struggle to cope with additional patient load.
Competing interests
I am a clinical trial investigator for influenza treatment and surveillance studies for Roche. I am a member of expert advisory panels for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) vaccines and Chair of a judging panel for the GSK Adult Immunisation Grants program. I have also been an educator, speaker and author for Divisions of General Practice immunisation education sessions, with funding having included contributions from GSK on several occasions.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What a joke. Not. Can't these people see what fools they are making of themselves?
Page converted to pdf and attached, in case some porkie removes this one as well.