Page 2349 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 23 June 2010

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1)  We will indicate on the faxed RFA frontsheet the earliest possible date this patient can be accommodated on this list. We can make this a ‘staged’ procedure for this date. If you accept this date, please re-categorise this patient—

Let me say that again—

Ms Gallagher: Yes.

MR HANSON: “If you accept this date—

Ms Gallagher: If you accept this date.

MR HANSON: please re-categorise this patient as a ‘2a Staged Procedure’—

Ms Gallagher: If you, Doctor, accept this date—

MR HANSON: and return by fax”. So let me be very clear, following Ms Gallagher’s interjections, about what is occurring here, Mr Speaker. Doctors—

Ms Gallagher: And then you go down to the other options.

Mr Seselja interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: Let us hear Mr Hanson, please, Mr Seselja and Ms Gallagher.

MR HANSON: Doctors are being advised—

Mr Stanhope: What, you base this motion on that letter, because you do not understand?

MR HANSON: They are trying to interject because they do not want to hear what is coming out of here. They do not want to have this letter recorded, do they?

Mr Stanhope: You simply don’t understand.

Ms Gallagher: The letters are on the website.

MR HANSON: Be quiet and listen and learn.

Mr Stanhope: You’ve based this whole motion on a flawed understanding of the procedure. What a joke!

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR HANSON: What is occurring is that the doctors are being asked to downgrade—

Mr Stanhope: You don’t understand. You goose!

MR SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, you can speak in a moment.

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