The totally off-topic thread

[drron]

Mrsdrron is also flying to Sydney to see the grandkids.
good way to do a status run!

 

[JessicaTam]

Road trip to Tamworth this weekend.
I may finally get to drive the new Subaru XV further than the length of the driveway.

Now that could turn into quite the fun weekend in a Suby.

 

[JohnK]

I've turned into a boring old married man....... Mrs Flashback is having a girlie weekend with friends and the only option I'm coming up with right now is gym or clean the house. :shock:

Softie. If that ever happens to me can someone please put me out of my misery?

 

[Flashback]

Softie. If that ever happens to me can someone please put me out of my misery?

Well I've shed 8kg in the past 2 months so it's not all bad :mrgreen:

 

[Bindibuys]

Now that could turn into quite the fun weekend in a Suby.

Hoping it will be fun after the property inspections. We usually go up at least once a year to check on them.
First stop Muswellbrook - tenant wants a new towel rail & shower rose, car is packed with the tool box.

 

[JessicaTam]

Hoping it will be fun after the property inspections. We usually go up at least once a year to check on them.
First stop Muswellbrook - tenant wants a new towel rail & shower rose, car is packed with the tool box.

Don't forget to record the kms for the tax return.

 

[RAM]

Softie. If that ever happens to me can someone please put me out of my misery?

Only for your stash of points! Couldn't let them go to waste.

 

[RAM]

Not rats but still - Unbelievable Woman's nightmare of finding 5000 wasps in bed | Sunshine Coast Daily

Woman's nightmare of finding 5000 wasps in bed
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Brings a whole new meaning to "Honey, I'm home!"

 

[Flashback]

Yep, broken. Bummer. Right at the start of season too. Oh well, strap it and munch ibuprofen!

 

[cove]

In moderation Flashback! Read the pack information would be my non medical thinking.

 

[Flashback]

In moderation Flashback! Read the pack information would be my non medical thinking.

Indeed, Dr said 2, 3 times a day for 5 days - 4 days to go

 

[drross]

Indeed, Dr said 2, 3 times a day for 5 days - 4 days to go

If you're taking that much, make sure you take them after food and with plenty of water....and you'll probably notice you bleed and bruise easier after the 5 days

 

[Katie]

Can you help? There's only 5 days left in the QT Mutual Bank Staffroom for Improvement competition. Windsor SS is doing really well, but we don't want to be pipped at the post at the last moment. If you're not already supporting a school, can you support Windsor SS?

Open to participants outside Qld.


All I ask is that you sign up using this link (use password windsor), selecting Windsor SS as your school.
Confirm your registration, PM me you email address, and I will take over daily voting for you.


The winning school receives $20,000 for the teacher's staffroom. I've bough can openers this year after a school event, as I could not find a single can opener in the school. There's definitely no luxury items in the Windsor SS staffroom!!



What do you get in return?? Warm fuzzies from me, and the teachers at Windsor SS!

(Mods, I hope this is OK??)

 

[RAM]

In moderation Flashback! Read the pack information would be my non medical thinking.

What read instructions - how medieval!

But it does save much regret - and does require some comprehension skills! Peanuts anyone?

 

[RAM]

Indeed, Dr said 2, 3 times a day for 5 days - 4 days to go

But was the Dr correct in the dosage.

Long running 'joke' in the medical fraternity, "It's luck we get to BURY our mistakes."

Sad but true. If you die in hospital then your death is reviewed by an internal body not the coroner.

Any doubts on dosage etc - talk to one or two pharmacists.

As a just teenager I was prescribed 4 times the adult dose of an anti-histamine (serious side effects) and on first repeat my mother was pulled aside by the pharmacist and asked did we know it was 4 times the dose for an adult.

"Oops," said the GP, "it was good he was too young to drive."

True but I was cycling through 9 kms of arterial road traffic to school.

 

[Shelf]

Sad but true. If you die in hospital then your death is reviewed by an internal body not the coroner.

That is a broad statement

 

[Princess Fiona]

Sad but true. If you die in hospital then your death is reviewed by an internal body not the coroner.

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If your death is sudden and/or unexplained the death will be reported to and investigated by the coroner, this most definitely does include deaths in hospital.

 

[Flashback]

All this from a little broken toe :shock: :mrgreen:

 

[RAM]

If your death is sudden and/or unexplained the death will be reported to and investigated by the coroner, this most definitely does include deaths in hospital.

No, not in NSW for example at PoW a patient discharged but suffered a severe stroke within 10 minutes was reviewed internally. The internal review can recommend the coroner looks into it but not auto.

Think back to Qld and the so-called Dr Death. Cases not reported to coroner as died in hospital and investigated internally.

 

[drron]

No, not in NSW for example at PoW a patient discharged but suffered a severe stroke within 10 minutes was reviewed internally. The internal review can recommend the coroner looks into it but not auto.

Think back to Qld and the so-called Dr Death. Cases not reported to coroner as died in hospital and investigated internally.

Not quite right.Two cases of Dr.Patel's were in fact referred to the coroner before the shiitake hit the fan.the problem is it is up to the doctors involved to report a death.

http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/courts/coroners-court

Because of this the coroner has sought wider powers-
Will the fear of public scrutiny affect how our Queensland Government prosecutors proceed? - Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration - Australia

this decision could provide scope for a coroner to criticise, or make recommendations about the relevant prosecution guidelines and policies of Queensland Government departments
any such comment or recommendation, or simply the fear of any such comment or recommendation, might result in changes to the relevant policy or in how it is applied, with a real potential for an increase in prosecutions following a fatality, and
this decision also confirms, and perhaps extends, the broad scope of inquiry in a coronial inquest and the ability for coroners to make comments on peripheral matters.

The Newman government is also considering some wider powers-
No Cookies | The Courier-Mail

All health care deaths in QLD must now be reported to the coroner under amendments already made since the Patel case-
http://www.mdanational.com.au/media/46471/mdan11364 304 13 first defence_web.pdf

And I believe every one who is interested in health should read the findings by the first Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Bundaberg Hospital who was forced to resign because of a "bias".He believed the guilty were guilty.
http://independentaustralia.net/wordpress-opt/wp-content/2012/09/Tony_Morris_Submission_Final.pdf
If you want to know why hospitals are so expensive paragraph 65 will be an eye opener.

PS.I have been a consultant for QLD Health and for the previous QLD Health rights body.

PPS.i just remembered the famous Freudian slip in the report.At the end of Clause 57.1 he states the Head office of QLD health in Brisbane referred to itself as the copropate office-ie the shiitake office.