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I think the doctor who was talking to me was talking in context of Canberra's private hospitals - the one in particular he was referring to is small - 80 beds and if anything goes wrong they bring staff over from the Public hospital. He felt the delay could sometimes result in an inferior outcome when you were talking about things like brain surgery. Obviously in big cities that sort of limitation is not necessarily the case. Family members have been treated in both private and public hospitals in Canberra and both have been fine, but I could see his point about rather going to Canberra Hospital for more serious treatment. When Mr FM had his brain abscess there was no choice for that sort of thing it was Canberra Hospital only and the treatment he had there was superb. We have had numerous types of elective surgery done at private hospitals and they have been great.

<blockquote data-quote="Flying mermaid" data-source="post: 1559131" data-attributes="member: 30835"><p>I think the doctor who was talking to me was talking in context of Canberra&#039;s private hospitals - the one in particular he was referring to is small&nbsp; - 80 beds and if anything goes wrong they bring staff over from the Public hospital.&nbsp; He felt the delay could sometimes result in an inferior outcome when you were talking about things like brain surgery.&nbsp; Obviously in big cities that sort of limitation is not necessarily the case. Family members have been treated in both private and public hospitals in Canberra and both have been fine, but I could see his point about rather going to Canberra Hospital for more serious treatment.&nbsp; When Mr FM had his brain abscess there was no choice for that sort of thing it was Canberra Hospital only and the treatment he had there was superb.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have had numerous types of elective surgery done at private hospitals and they have been great.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Flying mermaid, post: 1559131, member: 30835"] I think the doctor who was talking to me was talking in context of Canberra's private hospitals - the one in particular he was referring to is small - 80 beds and if anything goes wrong they bring staff over from the Public hospital. He felt the delay could sometimes result in an inferior outcome when you were talking about things like brain surgery. Obviously in big cities that sort of limitation is not necessarily the case. Family members have been treated in both private and public hospitals in Canberra and both have been fine, but I could see his point about rather going to Canberra Hospital for more serious treatment. When Mr FM had his brain abscess there was no choice for that sort of thing it was Canberra Hospital only and the treatment he had there was superb. We have had numerous types of elective surgery done at private hospitals and they have been great. [/QUOTE]

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