Barwon Health is weird with it's system. Although we are attatched to a major public hospital we do not have access to their doctors, even the baby ones. Go figure. So we have to make do calling the clients own GP's or, in my case, the after hours locum service. The after hours locum service is Melbourne based (over an hour away) and it's doctor's appear to be mostly made up of Indian (Asian ones that is) who obtained their qualifications from the backs of Corn Flakes packets. They are truely scary. They need to be instructed to order exactly what is required and/ or convinced that not every patient needs to be sent across to casualty... because they actually don't have a clue themselves.

And just to add to the fun don't bother ringing them after midnight... they'll be banked up with calls and won't be able to attend you within the next eight hours anyway. So much fun for night shifts.

What it boils down to is that we have a chronic Doctor/ Nurse shortage in Aus and no Doc wants to work the night shifts.