1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Page sixteen of the Daily Telegraph Today, New South Wales 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: hospitals are being paralyzed by widespread bed block, triggering potentially 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: life threatening delays in treatment. They've gone through the latest 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: Bureau of Health Information data that's come through. This is 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: pretty alarming. Well, they got one in ten patients spent 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: longer than thirteen hours and six minutes in emergency departments. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: At Westmead Hospital, one of the busiest in the state, 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: one in ten patients didn't leave the emergency department for 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: at least twenty hours thirteen to Oh no, look, everyone's 11 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: trying to get through for one Yeah, when were stuck. 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: In an emergency department playing one note? One man, jess, 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: what do you got? 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 3: When I broke my leg? I was over at RPA 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: twenty three hours in. 16 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: You're kidding me? 17 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: Did you ever kip? Hardly? 18 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 3: Hardly twenty three because most of it was on a chair, 19 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: and then they put me in a wheelchair. And then 20 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 3: when they put the like they put the cast on. 21 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 3: Just in the interim they took pity on me. Let 22 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 3: me sleep in there for two hours because no one 23 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 3: else needed the castroom. They must have just had no bed. 24 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 2: So this is when you fell down the stairs, hammered 25 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 2: at the glenmore so I. 26 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 3: Wasn't habit, thank you. 27 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 2: I remember that. I remember that I fell down the stairs. 28 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: It was a good kick by Tom, wasn't it. 29 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, stairs got up and left. 30 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: Do you were you seeing people coming into the emergency 31 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: department and you were going, that guy's going to get 32 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: in before me, because that's what it's like, isn't it. 33 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 3: It just yeah, it felt like everyone was getting somewhere 34 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 3: before I was. And then by the time I got 35 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: up there, they put me onto the ward. They opened 36 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 3: the door and like it's just hospital. It was like 37 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 3: the doors opened and it was a light. It was 38 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,639 Speaker 3: like heaven. But if you know what you want to see. 39 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: In the hospital, I understand, Jess. And the hard thing 40 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 2: is people are going to be thinking, yes, the poor 41 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: girl was in pain for twenty three hours. If if 42 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 2: you've got to break, they know what it is. So 43 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: they look at that as well, that's contained. We know 44 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: what that is. If someone comes in with chest pain, 45 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 2: the doors are straight open. 46 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: But what this is and it's hard to say, but 47 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: what about the sketchy guy that comes in, He was 48 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: probably just having withdrawals. 49 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: They need they'll analyze that at the spot in the 50 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: front has got a broken leg. But you know what, 51 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 2: they're going to fix the leg and it's not going 52 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 2: to get any worse. Jess. I'm sorry. 53 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: But and when we went up to the ward there 54 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 3: was a guy that must have been waiting for surgery 55 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 3: for like three days because he absolutely lost it at 56 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 3: the nurses when they said sorry and something more emergents 57 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: come in like he was. 58 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: Going off because remember I went in there one time 59 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 2: with terrible chest pain fits. I was feeling dizzy and everything, 60 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 2: and they had a good look at me an ecg 61 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 2: and then you felt light yeah, and. 62 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: We never felt lightheaded and gaves, mate, I'm about to 63 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: pass out here. This is ridiculous and I'm not joking. 64 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: He went to the vending machine, got a chicken You 65 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: got a Snickers, and then you went and bought a 66 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: chicken pie from the canteen. Yeah, you came back to 67 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: the waiting room, you ate it and you went you 68 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: know what, I feel better. 69 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 2: It's just a lack of sugar. 70 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 3: You're not you and you're hungry, you know. 71 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not yourself, Jess, are you? And I recovered 72 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: and I'm better now. And I mean there's a chapter 73 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: of the survival story. 74 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: My god, can we just have chicken pies and snickers 75 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: in the emergency department? That might solve a lot of issues. 76 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 2: We can't find doctors. But I'll tell you what. The 77 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: chunky chicken pie is great.