Last week Mr NQN spent a not so delightful 10 hours at the emergency ward of the Prince of Wales hospital. The poor thing had an accident on his bike on the way home from work and he came home with a gash on his face, abrasions and bruises. The gash was about a centimetre long and we thought that it required stitches (well I’ve never had them but it was bit, it was gushing and it was on his face so we guessed they were necessary).
So with haste I pulled on the nearest dress and a cape (fashion cape, not super hero 
) and we went straight to the hospital. When we flew into through the doors of the emergency department people stared (they’re bored I later realised) and I said to Mr NQN “Do I look weird?” “No, it’s probably the cape” he replied before adding “I’m glad you stopped wearing the fangs.” And I know, I know, it’s terrible that I stopped to pause and ask about my appearance when my beloved was bleeding and I’m sure I’m going into the bad wife hell for that.
In case anyone didn’t know, hospitals are depressing places and will test the patience of the most patient, that is Mr NQN. I left at his urging after a few hours and Mr NQN stayed for a lengthy 10 hours. We understood that as his injuries weren’t life threatening and as such, he was low on the priority list although other patients ran and one even skipped when they were called. We tried to find a medical centre but alas none nearby were open at night. At 3am Mr NQN finally lost patience and asked how much longer he would wait. They pretended that they had tried to call him, however he was sitting right in front of them. And the next morning when he should have been getting up for work, after waiting for over 10 hours the doctor gave him 10 minutes of his time, told him he was fine and that he wouldn’t put stitches in and then did a light examination and sent him home. And there was no lollipop given (I asked).
When I got home the previous evening, I fretted quite a bit and needed to do something therapeutic. Earlier that day I had visited Flour and Stone bakery in Woolloomooloo and spied some rainbow cookies and that afternoon I mixed up some dough and cut and baked some rainbow cookies. I looked at the table and there they were, baked and ready to be iced. There’s something soothing about concentrating on something else during times of stress and I found the repetitive activity immensely helpful. I thought that this would be a nice thing to greet him with because rainbows follow the rain and signal the sunshine to come.
The rainbows themselves are easy to make and just requires two round cutters. The royal icing is fiddly admittedly especially if you want to do all seven colours (I stopped at six) and flooding each thin area with coloured royal icing took time and I would say that if anything, try and make the rainbows larger than smaller. Mr NQN is feeling remarkably better so perhaps he did find his pot at the end of the rainbow 
So tell me Dear Reader, do you ever find that people look at you oddly for no reason and does it bother you when people stare? And have you had any similar waiting experiences in a hospital?
Rainbow Cookies
An Original Recipe by Not Quite Nigella
- 85 g/3ozs butter, softened
- 140g/5ozs white caster superfine sugar
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 180g/6ozs all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For Royal Icing and decoration
- 1 egg white (30grams/1 oz)
- 1-2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 150grams sifted icing sugar
- Food colouring gels or liquids in various colours
- small white marshmallows for clouds
DIRECTIONS
1. Make cookies. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour and cinnamon. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/2 an inch thick. Cut into round shapes with the large round cookie cutter and then cut out a small circle in the centre. Using a sharp knife, cut these in half as shown. Place cookies 1 inch apart on parchment paper. Bake for 8-10 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.
3. Make royal icing by beating egg white with lemon juice until foamy on low speed increasing to medium speed. You want two textures for the royal icing, a stiff one to pipe the outline and a runnier one to “flood” the outline. Add sifted icing sugar by the spoonful while beating until desired consistency is reached. You want it a little stiff in order to pipe the outline however, if it is too stiff, add a tiny little bit of warm water.
4. Divide into bowls as you will now mix colours into these. Rainbows have seven colours to them and it’s up to you whether you want to do all of the colours (the more you do the fiddlier and more time consuming they will be). Stir the colours in well making sure that there are no streaks. Always cover your royal icing with cling wrap as it dries out easily. Some strong colours need some time to settle or they will be a bit blotchy so make your royal icing ahead of time if you can.
5. Spoon some of the royal icing into a piping bag or a strong ziplock bag and pipe a a border for each colour (as shown). Allow to set a little for 20-30 minutes. Add a little water (not too much) to each of the remaining bowls of icing to make the flood icing and using a small spoon, fill in the edges making sure to prick any air bubbles and fill in any holes.
6. Place white marshmallows to the side to simulate clouds.
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Cheers,
Rosa
At least Mr NQN was not injured too badly. But to wait 10 hours is just pathetic!
I once waited 5 hours or so to see a doctor about what my dad thought was a spider bite on my hand -it wasn’t; just a chill blain.
Then there was the time I had INFECTED widsom teeth and I had to wait a month to see a specialist (I have private health insurance!). I couldn’t eat at all and cried if I ate mushy cereal. My dad rang up the specialist and said I had lost 5kilos in a week and there was nothing left of me. They put my appointment forward to that week:)
Gorgeous rainbow cookies. And I think it would have been awesome to put on a super hero cape in your mission to save MrNQN
I am sure you looked fabulous, after waiting 10 hours each those people would have stared at anyone coming through the door.
cute! poor Mr NQN! not even a lollipop…
So sorry to hear of Mr. NQN’s accident. I fell off my bike the day that we were leaving for Europe. I too was cut up badly but not enough to head over to the hospital to wait (yes, our medical system is as bad as your’s). Woolloomooloo? What a cool name for a place.
Mr. NQN is very lucky to have you. Those cookies look wonderful (BTW they are a symbol for Gays and Lesbians I in Toronto (not sure if it is world wide!)
I’m glad Mr NQN is alright. Hope he’s feeling much better this week. Thankfully, I never had to spend time in a hospital, emergency or otherwise. But if something bad were to happen, I’d probably turn to baking therapy as well. =P
Those cookies look scrumptious, by the way, but is there any other method to make royal icing without the egg white?
So pretty! Glad to hear Mr NQN is feeling better, poor thing!
I hope these brightened his day somewhat as they are beautiful! I can all too thoroughly relate as I’ve had a similar experience waiting in emergency with a broken toe…not knowing there is nothing they can really do about it.
People always stare at Accident and Emergency and it’s because they have nothing else to do. A ten-hour wait for a few stitches is a disgrace! I love your cookies. I once made a rainbow birthday cake and yes, piping on those seven colours does take a steady hand. My blog has gone down. I have no idea why. It seems it doesn’t exist. Oh dear!
Sorry to hear about Mr NQN and your terrible hospital story. We have been in & out of hospital over the last few months *sigh* so I feel your pain. They are horrible places and our health care system in NSW is average at best.
Your cookies are so pretty, I hope they cheered you both up
Poor Mr NQN – what a terrible experience – in the hospital, I mean. These rainbow cookies look wonderful!
Glad to hear Mr NQN is on the mend! Wow, I love these! They are so pretty!
What a terrible time Mr NQN had. I think you need to find yourself an all night medical centre instead of the emergency room for these sorts of things. I hope those rainbow cookies brightened your day.
Hi NQN
I love reading your blog and have used many of your tips and told my friends about your site so please know that I am a fan. I have recently discovered that there is a range of natural food colourings that you can use instead of the artificial food colours that are apparently derived from petroleum. Did you know that? I didn’t. My child reacts quite crazily to food colouring and I thought it was worth asking if you were aware of how they make food colouring as it gets a fair amount of use in your recipes.
I liove reading your blog and you don’t have to publish this letter it is just really to raise awareness that not everything we put in our food is as safe as we expect it to be.
Best regards
Maryanne
These are so lovely and cute. They look yummy too. I love the marshmallow clouds!
I hope Mr NQN feels better soon…
I am quite self-conscious so I do not like when people stare. I always worry what they must be thinking…
Oh dear, hope Mr. NQN is on the mend soon, a shame no medical centre was opened to have it looked at , 10 hours is ridiculous, he definitely was shunted to the end of the queue!
By the look of your very colourful Rainbow cookies, I’m sure he had a smile on his dial !
As for people staring…… when I leave home , I make sure that I have dressed sensibly, zipped any zippers, buttoned any buttons , my hair combed , shoes cleaned, my makeup isn’t smudged and I’m wearing just enough jewellery but I still get the
stares, am quite perturbed as to why? Maybe I have an ‘aura’ that certain people can see?
oh yes. six hours waiting in the waiting area after a stroke.
Then they blamed ME for not getting there quicker.
True story.
I want those cookies. They make me smile.
Oh no!!! There is nothing worse than waiting around in an emergency room. I’m so glad he’s ok. These cookies are beyond cute!!! What a great way to cheer up
If people stare I must be oblivious to it.
As for the hospital wait I have had many over the years for verious things my eldest daughter falling of a horse, falling over at high school, husband falling of a ladder from a great height also 2 motorcycle accidents. Myself only 3 visits one several years ago when my very sharp knife cut into my thumb Nearly severing the tendon, after filling a tea towel with blood I still had to wait 4 hours before being seen ! The 2 nd visit I had chest pains so I was taken in straight away it turned out to be pneumonia the last visit of mine I came in an ambulance after my head on car accident last year.
A waiting room of casualty must be the most disease ridden depressing place in the world.
yes I took my son to hospital for a black eye and headaches only last week and was waiting for 7 hours only to be told after a 20 min consultation that he was fine. and I have had people stare at me when we needed milk once, I threw on the cleanest available clothes and nipped up to the shop only to have everyone stare at me and got home to realize my shirt was inside out and back to front
Those are super cute! hope Mr. NQM feels better soon.
Poor Mr NQN, hospitals really are nasty places to sit and wait! The couple of times I’ve gone with my man he’s been in pretty bad shape so they take him through quickly but I’ve had to wait for nearly two whole days before (I did go home for the night but was there early both mornings).
Those cookies look like a very nice thing to come home to though!
These are so cute and perfect for Mr NQN after his horrible experience – hope he’s better now! Plus it’s therapeutic for the baker. I do find it disconcerting when people stare – there is usually a good reason!
They are an eye opening original, cute and probably not good for you with all that colour but what the hell. Hope poor Mr NqN is OK. I know they are busy but its so unfair isn”t it?. They even have a lady that comes round to check why you are there at the medicare office these days….. you think they could do the same in a hospital when it requires an all night wait.
I LOVE these. And perfect timing too! My soon-to-be Miss 5 is having a Rainbow High Tea for her birthday next month, and I think these *need* to be on the menu! Adorable xx
What beautiful cookies, Lorraine, I’m sure they cheered Mr. NQN up after such a frustrating wait. And doing such detailed icing must have been the ideal distraction in a stressful time.
The hospital waiting times are a bitch! Ive had to endure them before. Good to know Hubs was ok.
I get very uncomfortable when people stare at me, yet im guilty of people watching too
Love the rainbow cookies Lorraine
Good to hear the injury was not serious, probably the stress caused by waiting etc did more harm!
When I was at uni, a friend said the cafeteria at the public hospital was great for lunch and coffee. We actually went there few times. People avoid hospitals and we chose to go there – glad we are no longer that stupid.
These are too cute!!
Lorraine, I bet your rainbow cookies cheered the mister right up! They make ME happy:)Love how you used circle cutters!
I’ve never had a wait THAT long in the ER~Yikes! I also had a bike accident a couple of years ago(thankfully I had JUST made it down a steep hill and was on flat land), when my bike seat flew off, and so did I! Talk about a freak accident!?! Let’s just say I couldn’t put pants on for a few days:( They did see me pretty quickly in the ER though:)
Cookies pretty, story all too common these days
! Have ended up in A&E of local hospitals on a number of occasions and 8 hours has been the shortest time before admittance [and have needed those on every occasion]! And that with private insurance and after strokes etc! Axtually a literal ‘hissy fit’ was needed to get promised and very much needed morphine after an extra wait of an hour!! God bless the system 
!
Take it from someone who has spent a lot of time sitting in hospitals – sometimes it’s worth just having a physical scar rather than the psychological one that comes from waiting..and waiting..and waiting.
He’s very lucky to have a wife who wears a cape and can magick up rainbows to cheer him up.
Poor Mr NQN! I hope you have since bought him a padded suit to wear while riding- or maybe complete motorcycle leathers? That would look cool and dangerous! I bet the waiting room was full of people jealous of your fashion sense and Cape! They would have been more jealous of the cookies though, especially with the fluffy clouds
We had to wait 3 days to get my hubbys finger seen back on when he severed it. We were ushered into ER straight away, but it want life threatening and more urgent cases came in
I just get excited when I read the title of a post from you with words like “Rainbow Cookies.” I know in advance it will be another insanely creative something that I will drool over and envy. Then this time I am faced with a sad story of Mr. NQN’s accident and proof that hospitals all over the world are the same. And yes, all my life I have been accused of wearing costumes rather than actual clothes, so naturally people do stare. You get used to it, really you do.
I just keep thinking of you in one of those old fashioned nurses capes offering those cute cookies
Sorry to hear about MR NQN’s accident – and the emergency area is a terrible place to spend time – hope he had a good book or an ipod to keep him from going crazy. Glad to hear he is ok.
Gorgeous and just the thing to brighten up a hospital visit.
Oh no! about Mr. NQN!
Lucky he has you to look after him
These cookies are farrrr too cute!!
xo
These are so sweet, but what an unfortunate ordeal inspired them! Poor you guys, I’m so sorry you had to waste all that time and energy. I hope Mr. NQN is feeling tip-top again right quick.
my sister waited for six hours in the hospital. it was considered an emergency case and nobody tended to her
Aww, poor Mr NQN. Hospital emergency departments should be avoided at all costs if you can go to a normal doctor, but when it’s late at night, there’s little alternative! I think the minimum I’ve had to wait is like 6 hours! Glad to hear everything is ok though.
What gorgeous cookies! And what a nice way to stress relieve!
I once waited for five hours in the emergency room, got called, given the initial examination, then told to wait in the corridor where I was promptly forgotten about for the next six hours. All on no sleep and excruciating pain in my arm (14 year old girls should not try to teach themselves yoga at 3am at sleepovers
)
But that was nothing compared to spending all day at a hospital in Paris on my own, watching everyone else be called in, unable to speak the language well enough to ask when I’d be seen… good times.
No one made rainbow cookies for me. You’re definitely going to good wife heaven.
Those are the sweetest happiest looking biscuits I’ve ever seen. I sure hope they cheered up Mr NQN!
Sorry to hear that you’ve had such a bad experience at the hospital Well, having to go to the hopsital is already bad enough. Yes, that’s the policy I guess everywhere: they have codes for patient’s injuries with I think “blue” being life-thretening, and everyone has to run to that patient. Something like that. I hope Mr NQN is better now.
These are absolutely adorable Lorraine. Definitely fit for a kids birthday party!
When i skim-read the first few lines-10 hours.. emergency ..bike accident..my thoughts rushed to mr NQN being plastered in mummie-style bandage get-up,broken bones..etc..
I immediately scrolled down to see the ending and ahh,thank God he is intact and on the mend.
Why wasn’t there a nurse/intern assessing the waiting patience and tend to those not needing surgery,surely no one need wait 10hours…
Those rainbow cookies are just what the food doctor ordered
I highly recommend your treatment plan!
Who else could give us a pot of gold!
Ps I posted the info for the vegan choc(white)(see 81)u asked about.
Poor Mr NQN!
Very lucky that he had something delicious and pretty to come home too. Yours look just as good as the Flour and Stone version and I love the clouds!
Emergency departments totally suck. Glad Mr NQN didn’t require stitches – those bike accidents can be quite scary I bet!
Gorgeous cookies! I need to make some to cheer up the husband when he comes home from work – as a doctor in Emergency.
–How beautifully apt to make lovely rainbow cookies for poor Mr NQN!
They look like they’d make most people feel a bit better.
If somebody stares, I feel VERY uncomfortable & I’d never make direct eye contact w/ them.
Xxx
Yum yum yum yum yum and absolutely adorable! Love them!
Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh glad he’s ok. Emergency can be like that – you end up waiting half a day.. like WHAT emergency? Trick (albeit naughty and selfish) – make up something far worse, or here’s a good one, say you hit your head really hard. This is always treated with urgency!! and once you’re in, if it’s just a cut and your head is actually ok, well at least you’re in! haha!
ANYWAYS, where’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Lorraine, I LOVE these cookies. I wish they had been at the hospital last year when I waited 33 – count them – hours to be taken into surgery for a tumor that was resting on my spine. This was after previously going to my local hospital twice, three days apart and being told that I would just have to put up with the pain and numb, tingling in my legs. I finally got sick of this utter crap, demanded I be put on the surgery register and drove myself to a larger hospital where they perform surgery. Waited 33 hours and was in and out of theatre in 25 minutes. There were multiple expletives used that day to describe the pathetic Victorian health system.
P.S. Glad Mr NQN is ok. He definitely needs that padded suit.
I hope Mr NQN is better soon. I get stared at all the time in Italy, but I’m used to it.
I would have not been impressed at all by the ten minutes! The ten hours would have made me MAD! It sounds easier to get some steri strips for home and do the ‘stitching’ yourself. That way, no need for the cape and late night fretting
Absolutely gorgeous. Would brighten up anyones day!
I hope Mr NQN is feeling better now… I am so sorry to hear about the accident…
Trust me my dear I know hospitals are the worst place, specially the emergency room…
Take care of him, I hope he feels better really soon…
B/w these cookies are absolutely adorable… Beautiful!!
Poor Mr NQN – I hope your rainbow cookies brightened his day.
These are adorable L! Love the colors. So vibrant.
Hi Lorraine, good to hear Mr NQN was o.k.
Adorable cookies and glad Mr. NQN is ok.
Sorry to hear about the accident. I guess he is more bruised by the hospital wait than the actual accident. BTW your cookies are super cute and I totally understand how time consuming making the different colours are.. I managed to get upto only 5 for my rainbow cupcakes
So sorry about the bike accident – those can be really nasty. My son-in-law in Orlando is getting over a similar incident. Thank God he was wearing really good protective gear. I hope Mr. NQN does the same.
These cookies are really cute. I ALWAYS cook when I’m stressed but I can’t eat it.
I’m so sorry he got hurt!
ah your rainbows look adorable. remind me of the song “over the rainbow”. love that lullaby…
We make colored forms in austria of salt dough (which isnt eatable). Popular in kindergardens and primary schools. ( I know thats a different dought!)
I hope your husband is better now after all that. I realised when having a bike accident, that I feel very uncomfortablei my skin, like a bad trip. I blame some “friends”of mine for that. I had no way to go to the hospital to change the binding and I had asked them for help but they prefered to party and my foot wound became septic. that was in my early days alone in goa…
Once again, I marvel at the lovely relationship between you and Mr NQN. What a thoughtful thing to do. The cookies are delightful and I hope Mr NQN is feeling better. BTW ERs are awful places, and I’ve learned that if they rush you in, it usually means it’s for a very scary reason. So maybe a long wait, as sucky as it is, is a mixed blessing. xo
Sadly our hospital system is pathetic. Glad Mr NQN was fine in the end. Very cute biscuits!
You both deserve rainbow cookies after that experience!!
People usually do look at me a little funny. I am not your usual grandmotherly type, but I like me so who cares?
I hate hospitals and my heart goes out to anyone who has to wait in a waiting room. 10 hours is criminal in my opinion…
Oh, no! Poor Mr NQN…hope he’s feeling better now! (I’m glad you made him these cute cookies — I’m pretty sure that earns you a spot in good wife heaven, lol!) It really does bother me when people stare, mostly because no matter how freakish or gruesome someone looks I try to politely avert my eyes, lol!
usually i’m the one giving the odd looks, but that’s because i so enjoy watching people and there are so many strange ones out there (myself included…). i love the colorful cookies and commentary.
It may be very therapeutic ice these cookies, I can’t imagine me doing something like that. Sometimes I take to much detail in thing I do, so I guess this kind of work will make me crazy.
Crazy as your Mr. NQN waiting at the hospital. Thanks God I never had to wait like that.
Thanks for showing how to make the rainbows – for some reason I always thought I would need a special cookie cutter (which of course is pointless). So sorry to hear about your hubby’s trip to the hospital and I’ve found it’s almost ALWAYS a dreadfully long wait unless you’re missing an arm or leg or spurting profusely despite a tourniquet
I’m glad he didn’t need stitches…
Ten hours!?!?! You poor things what an ordeal! I hope Mr NQN is feeling better
Thank you everyone for your kind wishes for Mr NQN. He is doing well although not back on the bike yet (and if I have a say in it, not for a while yet!) xxx
I saw this post from email and I showed it to my kids. They absolutely loved your cookies and asked me to make them. Um, no… I’m not NQN!!! You are incredible… I have no patience to get to the dough stage. =P
I’m glad to hear Mr NQN is ok, despite his 10 hour wait. When I dislocated my knee a couple of years ago the service I received at the hospital was equally as pathetic as what Mr NQN experienced. Basically all they did was x-ray me, agree that I had dislocated it and sent me home with crutches. It was a complete waste of time and lead us having to see a doctor the next day to get proper care. They didn’t even examine me properly! I know they are rushed, but it frustrates me that whenever you go to a hospital staff seem to be standing around chatting. On the other hand my fiance is in the army, and the care at the army hospitals is just amazing. If you have an accident they look after you right away.
Anyway, your rainbow cookies look adorable!! I am sure these cheered Mr NQN no end, and what a great way to keep yourself occupied.
Just beautiful !!!! I love focusing on things like this too, it really does distract your brain. Glad mr nqn was fine, there really needs to be an alternative to emergency for such injuries.
I thought that kind of thing only happened in UK hospitals! Unfortunately not…
And the cookies look great, by the way!
Dont those rainbow cookies look just wonderful!! They would definitely light up any table!
Yes, I’ve been in hospital more often than I care to remember – although I’ve never had to wait quite so long. Poor Mr NQN!
Poor Mr. NQN, I know the frustration of waiting for hours on end hoping to be seen. I’ve sworn I will never go back to emerg, unless I’m flat out on a stretcher dying!
Love your pretty cookies, & what better way to cheer up your “patient” than a yummy brilliant rainbow. : )
A little hint you might find handy. I’ve learned from making so many decorated cookies, that small in-expensive squeeze bottles work great for filling/flooding in cookies with thinned royal.
Cheers!
Hope Mr. NQN is all better now. The rainbow cookies are just adorable!
are you kidding me?? 10 hours of waiting? my husband and i both work at hospitals here in Toronto, Canada (in administration, not medical). it is absolutely absurd how wait times keep getting longer! you are correct about the cue of patient cases to be seen, but still, 10 hours??? Yipes! It’s a sad fact about hospitals…when you have an emergency, they move you through in a slow pace. When it comes to discharging you from a patient / recovery bed, they rush you out of there as fast as they can! Yikes! Nice cookies, though!
Glad Mr NQN is better. And sorry to hear of his horrendous wait at the hospital.
Gorgeous rainbows! So glad Mr NQN is OK now x
It’s so true — work is often such a salvation to keep our minds off of what troubles us. I hope Mr. NQN is fully on the mend. I’m sure these cookies have special curative powers that will get him back on his feet in no time.
Oh I’m sorry to hear about Mr NQN’s accident! Glad to hear it wasn’t serious.
Your rainbow cookies are so cute! I’ve made rainbow cookies before, but used layers of coloured dough rather than icing.
Am sure he felt better after some of these lovelies! Definitely want to make some myself.
The GD is an emergency doctor and he quite frequently comes home feeling battered, bruised and dejected because of the treatment he receives from patients. Tantrums and sulking, screaming, hitting, crying.
Everyone knows that waiting times in Emergency Rooms are ridiculous, but what very few people realise is that a lot of that is cause by people with non-emergent problems.
Like the guy whose leg had been hurting for six months and didn’t like what his GP told him.
Or the parents of the 12 year old who thought their daughter might have smoked marijuana a few weeks ago and wanted a drug test before it left her system.
I know the waits are terrible, but the problem is the patients, not the doctors and people really need to be far more supportive of our physicians, especially in EDs or we will continue to lose all our domestically trained doctors to international hospitals where they are paid more, work shorter hours and aren’t continually treated like their work is not good enough.
HI Jasmin-Yes it’s a complicated situation I agree and I’m horrified that people would abuse a doctor, that is terrible. And I realise that Mr NQN’s situation wasn’t critical at all and they would have tended to him quicker if it was. But there needs to be an alternative to emergency as we looked for a 24 hour medical clinic which would have suited us just fine. There used to be one right nearby but it is now closed. I don’t think emergency is equipped to deal with the room full of non critical people that they had. Also I think people panic a little when something happens to them (I admit I panicked when I saw all the blood) and they think they need to see a doctor just in case rather than treating it at home.
You’re right and they are shutting down 24 hour clinics all the time. I think the only one still open is at the five ways in Paddington. Critical or non-critical if the Emergency Room is the only place for you to be, then it’s the only place for you to be.
I just get a bit upset when I see people blaming Doctors. We have an understandable healthy respect for nurses in Australia, but there seems to be a pervading belief that Doctors are mercenary and uncaring. Not the case at all.
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