I feel for Kathleen Parsons, 12 months is an eternity when you are in pain ("Waiting pain: life on hold in the queue for hip operation", Herald, 5/12). My mother's doctor sent in a request for her to be seen by a specialist at JHH when she was 83 or 84, after waiting on the "waiting to get on the waiting list" she finally got to see a specialist at the end of January this year where she was told she would be rushed through in three to four months.
Now, after relying on patients dying to reduce the waiting list, they (obviously after a large think tank on ways to reduce the waiting lists without providing medical services) are sending out "Do you want to remain on the waiting list" forms every three months ... coincidentally around school holidays.
