Disasters and idiots

Disaster 1.
From the Dom-Post " Queensland's medical board has suspended the registration of a Czech-trained surgeon who botched sterilisation operations on women at Wanganui Hospital.
A report by the New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson this week condemned the Whanganui District Health Board for inadequate background checks on Dr Hasil, who was found responsible for numerous botched operations on women while he worked at Wanganui Hospital."

With the Wanganui, (or as they seem to say Whanganui), HB in absolute disaster mode it seems the problems in the hospitals are never ending. It is a disgrace that along with so many other problems over the past 12 months the WHB employs a so called 'doctor' who carried out an almost maiming of people. He should be brought back from Oz to face trial but that in the long run will cost us. The tragedy is that, by a little bit of checking, it all could have been avoided. At least the Australians have banned him from working there.

In the continuing saga of hospital problems, I see that the Hawkes Bay Hospital Board is to go to Court to try and stop the Minister from sacking them.

If they are using their own money to protect their jobs then, I don't really care - except it is tying up valuable Court time. But if, as I assume, they are using taxpayers money that should be used to help save lives, then that seems to be par for the course recently.

Disaster 2 .
Last week our laptop went into an eternal cycle of trying to download the latest Microsoft Vista updates. After a while it would give up trying to update, close down, re-boot and try asgain. The only way we could stop it was by using the close down switch. But when rebooting it just went back to the same cycle. Unfortunately I had forgotten to change the settings, as we have done with our Desktop PC, that down loads would only happen with our approval. What I normally do is wait 4/5 days to see if their are any problems before downloading.

I had a look on the Net and their were problems but MS were not commenting. So I phoned them here and they said it was only happening to Hewlett Packards PC's and it was HP's fault - Yeah Right!!. Interestingly they were able to patch me straight through to HP who blamed MS and the download.

Anyway to cut a long story short HP managed to get it up and running again but any files would have been lost. Luckily we had nothing vital saved on the laptop. So MS strikes again.

Small disaster 3.
My wonderful wife threw out some of my admittedly very old T Shirts but a Lions Tour one from 30 years ago that I wanted went. So I am waiting for the Salvation Army to phone to see if they have found it.

Disaster 4.
Jessie Ryder. What an idiot - but no different to the other small number of sports stars who just have too much money and too little brain. They only have to be sensible for 5-10 years, make a lot of money then go off the rails but they don't have the common sense.

Idiot 1.
Driving along today at a roundabout a learner driver was a couple of cars in front. He stopped at the roundabout for a short while to make sure he was OK to proceed and the idiot behind tooted his horn. They say an idiot is born every minute but sadly it is probably every 10 seconds.