A new way
Posted on | November 23, 2007 | 36 Comments
“Good morning Mrs Jones, Mrs O’Leary and Mrs Magee. Thank you for coming at such short notice.”
“Well, this is very important, Mr HSE Official.”
“You’re right, Mrs O’Leary. This is vitally important. Firstly let me apologise for the way the HSE has handled this whole thing. It’s not right and we’ll do our utmost to make amends to you.”
“It has been terrible but if it helps to do the right thing from now on then I suppose that’s the best we can hope for.”
“Too true, Mrs Jones. Now, we’re seeing you in groups of three so that we can work through the backlog a bit quicker. Perhaps a problem shared is a problem halved, and all that.”
“I can’t really see how you can give someone half a breast cancer but there you go.”
“No, you’re right Mrs Magee. That was insensitive of me. I apologise for that.”
“In the spirit of goodwill I accept your apology.”
“Now, we have done all the tests again and sent them off to be double-checked and triple checked. I have them in front of me here but you also have them in an envelope in your hand.”
“Could you not just tell us?”
“I could but we’re trying to ensure that if there is bad news to be broken that we do it in the most sensitive way possible. We’re learning from our mistakes and we want to provide a top class service to women all over the country.”
“That sounds reasonable.”
“Yes, indeed it does. We realise having cancer is quite a shock so anything we can do to soften the blow is important. People need to be told in a sensitive, compassionate way and not, for example, hear it broadcast on the radio or via some political report.”
“You are right. None of us can argue with that.”
“Ok then. I’ll ask you to open your envelopes and those of you that don’t have cancer take a step forward.”
*sounds of ripping envelopes followed by relieved sobs. Mrs O’Leary, Mrs Magee and Mrs Jones all step forward*
“Mrs O’Leary, where do you think you’re going?”
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November 23rd, 2007 @ 9:29 am
They might as well tell all the ladies to gather in one big circle, and examine the person to their left.
J.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 9:46 am
Harney should really open a casino beside the Midland Hospital in Portlaoise. That way all the women who go there for ultrasound scans can get to play roulette twice in one day.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:04 am
I’ll give harney this, shes brave to take on the job, shes the only one with guts.
the whole system is rotten, setting up the HSE as a means of deflecting blame from FF, who have been in power for nearly 18 yrs over the last 20, is one of the great crimes.
Look at the stockmarket – all the economy based stocks are being dumped, ireland is slowly being abandoned. It looks like all the cash is drying up and now we have no money left. the health system is worse than it was 20 years ago.
Harney is probably the best politican for the job, well i can’t really think of anyone better. The fact that she has made an absolute dogs dinner of it is what frightens me the most. Is this the best the elite of our politicians can do?
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:13 am
yeah at least Harney has balls.
not too attractive on a woman but hey, she’s got them.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:30 am
Whatever happened to collective cabinet responsibility?
http://skinflicks.blogspot.com/2007/11/harneys-not-only-one-should-quit.html
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:49 am
The fuckers complain when their remuneration is not the same as the private sector and use this as an excuse when the give each other pay rises…However in the Private Sector salaries are paid because responsibility is taken by CEOs and heads do roll when they do not perform for shareholders.
The people of Ireland are shareholders and quite frankly Harney has not performed, her fat fucking head should roll.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:52 am
The more I think about this the more angry I get, even bastard overpaid football managers take more responsibilty than government ministers. And I am starting to believe that the “common ma” actually thinks more about this , than they do when they put their fucking cross on the ballot paper.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:52 am
So how come We all know about HSE /Portlaoise and Harney doesn’t?? So she can’t read, can’t see & can’t hear but happens to know where the government helicopter is for private jaunts!! f’kn fat fart
November 23rd, 2007 @ 10:53 am
jc, they’ve never even pretended to have any. more like collective cabine irresponsibility. feel sorry for the poor fuckers workiong at the coalface in hospitals. shitloads of work, understaffed and not enough resources. civil service from top to bottom should be overhauled (or at least hauled over red hot coals). a merciless cull (with a big club with nails in) of hse personnel would improve the health service no end.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:05 am
A1 post Twenty. That’s right on the money.
The buck stops with the sumo wrestler.
If some minion is not doing their job that is the responsibility of their boss, who in turn is not doing his or her job because their job is to make sure the people who report to them are doing what is expected of them…. and it bubbles up the line until it gets to Drumm, the HSE and the sumo wrestler.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:22 am
If there’s anybody Irish out there who’s not on the electoral roll, get it sorted out. (I know plenty myself.)
We have to get these fuckers out. Your country needs you. It’s not enough to NOT vote for FF/PDs. You have to vote for someone else.
It’s only a matter of time before each and every one of us suffers personally at the hands of these gobshites.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:25 am
Cabinet responsibility assumes that the there is some concept of collective responsibility at work.
if only….
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:30 am
Oh, and a vote for the Greens is the same as not voting too. Cardboard politicians, no effect whatsoever.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Compare Ireland to the UK. Junior official sends data disc out the wrong way amd it gets lost. Chairman of Revenue, his ultimate boss, does ther honourable thing and resigns on the spot…now there’s taking responsibility!! Contrast that with Alastair Darling’s dishonourable behaviour on the same topic.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Monkeyballs on the surface thats a good idea but voting isnt going to change anything,big business will have in power who will make the more money,we work for the system not the other way around.
BTW the only reason why there isnt more people coming forward over this is because that fat cunt Harney is eating them all.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:33 am
There is nothing laudable about just having balls. No matter how big they are..
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:34 am
the buck stops with the sumo wrestler.
Harney is terrible at her job, deserves to be called out, and is a disgrace; but everyone does their cause a disservice when they constantly make fat jokes about her. To me it negates someones point when they have to resort to base-level name calling.
Im all for satire and using comedy to make a serious point, and even calling someone a bollox, but it seems people simply cannot comment on her without calling her fat. If you cant make an articulate point about someone without mentioning their weight I have to wonder if your point is worth listening to at all.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:45 am
roosta – don’t you think there’s something terribly grotesque about having an obese person as a figurehead for the Health Service ?
November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:49 am
in the context of the current irish government, the grotesqueness tends to blend in.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Well that’s frustration for you.
In any case, Harney is treating the Irish public with utter contempt. All she seems capable of doing is comission reports to see what went wrong. She then ignores their findings (see the little matter of the recent report which highlighted a large number of middle managers in the HSE who have no discernable role- yet are stillbeing paid handsomely).
And through it all she tries to tell us that our health service will be world class when she is finished with it? Maybe she should start by getting it working first.
How about if i call her a despicable cunt?
November 23rd, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
Point taken Eejitbasher, but I’m just sick of listening to idiots blathering on about how shit the government is, and when you ask them who they voted for, they tell you they didn’t vote. As if that in itself was enough.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
“is because that fat cunt Harney is eating them all.”
Should read “Because Harney’s fat cunt is eating them all”
November 23rd, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
Mary {i have a fanny like a welly top] harney is the most heartless cunt who ever been a T.D it is just the tip of the iceberg what else have they fucked up that we dont know about sack the fucking lot of them cunts
November 23rd, 2007 @ 12:58 pm
I know someone who was diagnosed with cancer, and was struggling to send her child through college while on Social Welfare. She did a bit of sewing on the side to help make ends meet, but it was never enough.
One day Harney called to the house. When the poor woman told her of her situation, Harney replied, “I hope you’re declaring your extra earnings.”
What a vile, evil cunt!
November 23rd, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
Fuck off, that didn’t happen
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:00 pm
Pat Rabitte would be an amusing taoiseach.
whether he would be good or not is debatable, but at least he’d have some witty comebacks rather than “emmm it was a loan and dem oppisition arr lyin’”
what’s this got you do with mary harney you may ask.
you may, but if you do, you’re a cunt.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
Is Roosta “gangsta”?
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
No Peadar, it did happen. It was a long time ago, but it happened. The woman is dead now, but I heard it from her own mouth, not second-hand.
And I have no reason not to fully believe it.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
Maybe they should just leave it to Mrs O’Brien.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Ha ha ha Monkey Balls you made that up. If I have heard that same story once I have heard it one hundred times. Anyway guys it is Friday lighten up a bit. I am off to have a good time. Cheers. Love you. Bye.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
i love you too Sarah. xxxx
November 23rd, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
Look, I know it’s hard to believe. I was stunned when I heard it myself.
I wasn’t going to say this, but the woman in question was my own Mother. She had tears in her eyes when she told me. Nobody else in the family knew about the cancer at the time, and she didn’t mention it at the time.
If I had made it up, I’d admit it.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
Is Roosta “gangsta”?
Not really. A little. When ive had a few drinks
November 23rd, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
How about if i call her a despicable cunt?
I dont think anyone would admonish you for that.
November 23rd, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
All of this mess is just FF/PD acting in the old traditional way of showing nothing but contempt for the ordinary citizens of this country.
Like Charvet Haughey, none of them will ever be in a public hospital, or be relying on the HSE to be efficient and honest, and treat them in a humane way.
They’ll all die like Charvet did, in luxury, surrounded by the best medical care money can buy,in their ivory towers, all paid for by us!!
November 23rd, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
Charvet Haughey(brilliant)remember when he was leaving office and said “If u think i was bad,wait until u see the next lot”
We are getting so fucked in this country,u would think alittle dinner,dancing and few drinks could be the least they could do.