The military medical system, does it suck the big one?
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Shawtarce...
My last message was aimed at anotherchopride. In your case you do seem to have been let down by the system and I suspect you WOULD have got better treatment in a military hospital. Lost films are a fact of life in a large organisation like a hospital but that is no comfort to you. Many hospitals are now going over to digital on-line type systems that remove the need for films unless you are coming from a different trust and even then, they can often be sent securely from one hospital to another (electronically) so that the surgeon can see the films on the computer instead. That doesn't allow for the fact that the surgeon you were under left the NHS. That said, the NHS presumably had at least a month and probably 3 months' worth of notice that this was going to happen in order to make arrangements so no excuses. If I were you, I would complain to the trust.
My last message was aimed at anotherchopride. In your case you do seem to have been let down by the system and I suspect you WOULD have got better treatment in a military hospital. Lost films are a fact of life in a large organisation like a hospital but that is no comfort to you. Many hospitals are now going over to digital on-line type systems that remove the need for films unless you are coming from a different trust and even then, they can often be sent securely from one hospital to another (electronically) so that the surgeon can see the films on the computer instead. That doesn't allow for the fact that the surgeon you were under left the NHS. That said, the NHS presumably had at least a month and probably 3 months' worth of notice that this was going to happen in order to make arrangements so no excuses. If I were you, I would complain to the trust.
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Documents get lost, and I appreciate that, but why did it take 2 months for a replacement set of MRI scans to be acquired.
Not as bad as my GP (I'm civilian) who lost my whole medical file, and complete history as it was paper-based. I have to tell them what dosages I have to be on now...
