Tag Archive for hospital

Sudden Death at Santa Ana

An Almuñequero, Antonio Miguel Aneas Vigo, died at the area hospital of Santa Ana in Motril from causes that can only be clarified by an impending autopsy. Sr Aneas, who was in his fifties, had not been feeling well for several days and had decided to go to Santa Ana.

Three Kings in Salobreña

The Three Kings weren’t short of company as 3,000 villagers turned out to follow the parade, but before they did the circuit, they shot off over to Hospital Santa Ana to sprinkle the younger patients with presents.

Expensive Impact

(Malaga) A man with mental problems jumped from a 9th-floor to end his life after escaping from a mental ward… which is unfortunate enough, but he landed on a passerby who had just walked out of a bar, causing quite a lot of bodily mischief, which is not only unfortunate but also arguably clumsy.

Expensive Foreigners

The Andalusian health service, SAS, spent two million euros treating foreigners, either residents or tourists, during 2010 in Granada alone. Mind you, they passed it on to the private insurance companies or the countries of origin of these patients.

Discharged But Not Budging

An elderly patient was given a medical discharge from a hospital in Huelva four months ago, but refuses to go home. Furthermore, the hospital-staff union describe him as quite aggressive.

Justice At Last

They were referring to the court sentence handed down by the Regional Supreme Court, (Tribunal Supremo de Justica de Andalucia), in which it recognises that the said doctor, Socorro Ricoy, was victimised at her place of work in the Hospital Virgen de la Nieves after she denounced that the lists were being manipulated in 2008.

Hospital Violence

It was 9am one Saturday morning and the Emergency Department was already filling up – some people had been there hours, others were arriving. One patient, however, decided that her test results were taking too long…

Medical Musings

Axel and I have frequently written about the sense and nonsense of treatments, but hardly about tests. Tests are neither a magic wand to keep you healthy, nor to detect illness. For example everybody agrees on fasting blood sugar testing, but what does a normal result say? Everything and nothing. As a single test it may be useful to screen for diabetes, but a normal test does still not exclude it entirely.

Catheter Catastrophy

Having a catheter introduced into something more accustomed to expelling urine is painful and guaranteed to make even a saint irritable at the mere thought of having one inserted, but punching the nurse is a tad overboard.