Well…BU…continue to do the good work on exposing the nonsense that goes on on this little island of ours…I never thought the day would come when media would be brave enough to openly make a statement…not even ask a question but to make a statement that addresses a serious situation. Bless.

DO YOU that most of the culprits in this regard are of my gender ?
WHEN will the Schools in Barbados teach and prepare individuals how to live as citizens in a developing country like Barbados ?
DO YOU THAT the bad treatment starts right there in the schools ?
DO YOU KNOW which gender form the biggest culprits in this regard ?
Why is the cursor jumping around when comments advance down the page ?
Is this an indication that I SHOULD NOT GO PAST A CERTAIN amount of words ?

Remember when BU kept harping about the need for the judiciary to get its act together and we had the mainstream media and apologists talking crap about how wonderful everything seemed to be?

Today what do we read in the Nation attributed to Elliot Mottley QC?

http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/a-hand-for-cj/

A couple years from now the same conversation will unfold about the scams in the medical fraternity.

We seem to be ahead of the game bloggers.

There is a degree of disappointment that I feel when I read of the atmosphere at the QEH. It suggests that the leading sickness care facility suffers from much of the same conditions that exist in the larger society. There is a disregard for those without power and money. There is also impunity for those who, in spite of oath/vow to the contrary openly exploit whatever power they are imagined to have in the sickness care industry.
Mr Commissiong, in a recent interview, raised some issues which should be of interest to those who see a need for correction in that small segment of the industry referred to as “doctors”. It is larger than that but it is not a bad place to put down a marker. Are we behaving like the colonizers of a different era and ethnicity? Are we choosing our healthcare professionals from the most desireable group of graduating highschoolers? Should prior undergraduate exposure, social awareness and sensitivity be as important as similar academic measures of math and science? When we try to change the self serving habits of grown people, are we involved in futility? Do we ever get to the point where we grease the skids and wish many malcontents goodbye? Then, who lubricates the slide? The lawyers and polititians, executives and board members from the same schools, families and towns as those deemed to be disruptive?

As we seek to imitate the sickness care structure of the USA and minimize those of countries whose healthcare indices support the value of a wider based approach, let us pause. Even a casual review of news about the sickness care industry in the United States reveals objectively identified fraud and abuse (see recent ProPublica.org and others). These involve physicians, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, medical schools and personnel at all levels. Patients, communities and similarly trusting people are the ones that predictably suffer. Others whom also suffer are those, whom because of a professional or personal oath, really adhere to “first, do no harm”. Those well meaning and ethical care givers are often shouted down and demeaned by their garrulous and self serving “colleagues”.

David | September 8, 2011 at 6:16 AM |
“Today what do we read in the Nation attributed to Elliot Mottley QC?”

Anon Legal and/or Amused said that in the Commonwealth a QC could be brought in to act as a Justice in order to clear the backlog of cases in the courts. I wonder, with all the advise that Mr Mottley has provided to the four past CJ’s, did he ever include a suggestion like this? … Doubt it …

In my humble opinion, if Mottley, QC did not offer help to Sir David Simmons why would any other CJ accept his help now!!!

Regarding the QEH, an appraisal system with timely follow through, and monitoring of labour, welfare, awards, compensation, coaching, will bring the human resources under control and transparency will be seen among consultants and resident doctors plus all other staff members. Is that why BAMP does not want to hear about an appraisal (monitoring of human behaviour and attitude) system?

You don’t talk compensation of duties before you look at job description and how it will be monitored. What are the doctors doing? how many hours are they on the job? who knows when they come and go? What is the quality of their work? to whom do they report? how can they improve as individuals? What training is required to enhance their general or specialized practice? ALL HR management queries.

BAMP can get to this century as soon as the anaesthetics wears off and get up and start where employees are to start with employers. Doctors don’t employ the QEH the QEH employs the Doctors.

@David. The existing system made a lot of lawyers rich. THINK!

and do you know any “Poor” Doctors?

Barbados sweeeeeeet fuh a whole lot a people.

To david;
As I understand it, the junior doctors are not members of BAMP; they are represented by the NUPW. It seems as if they have special problems with the consultants and the manner in which they are handled.

@lemuel

you are correct, the junior doctors had broken rank with Bamp for the reasons stated by you. Can anyone tell me how many doctors BAMP represent.

Can the ceo of the qeh tell us how many patients doctors/consultant see a day?

Is there a system in place to monitor doctors/consultants attendance at work,

To harness the doctors barbadians need to support any lagal and legitimate action taken. They have no way to run to, it is difficult for them to go run to the mother country. They receive their basic training and sometimes specialist training at the taxpayer’s expense. They are employees of the hospital, dr. Chase motive is frustrate the health plan of barbados pure and simple. watch him over the next few months.

“Can the ceo of the qeh tell us how many patients doctors/consultant see a day?”

Many times the patient will arrive on the day of the appointment and be told that the consultant is away and will have to reschedule the appointment. Mind you the patients had been waiting months for this appointment. The new appointment might be six months to a year later. This has been going on for years and the poor who cannot afford to pull their pockets must accept their fate. Their life is not worth much to the physician who works for the Government., yet it is the same poor people who have helped pay for his/her education. The poor is scorned and treated in the most despicable manner by the staff at the QEH. They have the patients waiting like sheep in a pen. Just go an take a look at the waiting rooms. The workers walk around as if they own the place snarling orders to the patients who question them.

I have a friend who had an appointment to see a consultant today, when she arrived she was told he is on vacation. What happens if this patient runs out of medication, since most of what she was using has been discontinued and the consultant was suppose to change the perscription today. Funny thing she was told to go and make a new appointment to see him, but the closest one is five months away.

@islandgal246… Of course I do. As you well know….

@David

They might have preceded him as chaor of bamp, but you are forgetting one thing he benefits from the system and would not want any meaninful change to measure output, he is one of the consultants.

@islandgal et al…

Have you considered the possibility that is within in the rights of the employer to monitor the behaviour of the employees?

Have you considered the possibility that perhaps the employees would perform better if they knew they were being constantly measured?

What we need persons to secretly record public servants abuse and make it public. But then these public servants will probably take it further to ban cell phones with cameras in their vicinity. Boy we ain’t easy to deal with.

Here is how to sort this darn affair:
(1)Offer them a contract to work so many hours a day each month in the hospital.
(2)Provide a way of monitoring their work ethic,time keeping.
(3)Ensure ALL attend refresser courses every year.
(4)Once qualified, a minimum and maximum amount of hours a week for senior and Juniors.

Let us not forget that the QEH now has a highly qualified/trained HR practitioner.

Obediant:

Here is what the web shows on Napoleon-Ramsay:-

From Barbados Advocate 5/29/2009
Small business owners need to be aware of how the legislation surrounding employment rights will affect them. That is according to Industrial Relations Officer at the Barbados Employers’ Confederation, Charmaine Napoleon-Ramsay,

From Zoom Info
While at the Confederation, Mrs. Napoleon-Ramsay restructured the BEC’s biannual “Stepping into Supervision and Management” course which equipped managers and supervisors with the necessary tools for managing in diverse environments andalso facilitated the BEC’s Strategic Planning exercise.
As part of her training at the BEC, she attended several overseas training courses including a visit to Washington DC where the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), in Washington DC through its INDES programme, sponsored the course Design and Management of Social Policies and Programmes. In addition to this she visited the UK’s Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) which aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations.

Minister Donville Inniss’ concern about absenteeism by nurses in todays press lines up with BU’s concern about the hardening of the culture at the QEH

It is a fact a number of nurses are moonlighting, some as much as three seperate institutions, and pay little attention to their main job at the QEH, but the same thing is happening with policemen at the RBPF. Maybe it is because of small salaries and low level of motivation to their staunch job.
Barbadians must take some of the blame for the congestion at the A&E Dept, too many patients go that dept, for simple things like headache etc when they could attend a polyclinic; the A&E should be for serious cases only.

Georgie Porgie does a Google every so often to see if his handle is mentioned on a recent web page … let’s see if this is true …!

@ David
BU David, you are one UNREASONABLE man. Did Bushie not BEG you to post at least ONE article which highlights something that make us Bajans look at least sane.
Cuhdear, there MUST BE SOMETHING…..?!? ….Somewhere…?!
…Just for INDEPENDENCE?

But no you come with the doctors……
These fellows worst than the lawyers. While the lawyers will rob you blind, blindfold justice, and laugh at the rest of us, the doctors have managed to keep a low profile …. They BURY their mistakes and dirty linen.

This is a massive problem David. BIG!

RE BAFBFP | September 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM |
Georgie Porgie does a Google every so often to see if his handle is mentioned on a recent web page … let’s see if this is true …!

I AM NOW SEEING THIS THREAD FOR THE FIRST TIME
INTERESTING