What pain?

Extract from the Sun today :-

"TWO DOCTORS AT EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT FOUND IDLING"
*shock horror.ohmygawd.is this true?

Deputy Federal Territories Minister Datuk M.Saravanan was shocked to find that instead of attending to patients who were waiting at the emergency department, two doctors were reading newspapers and minding their own business and doing his own stuff.

First of all, why is he shocked? Are you shocked ? I am not. It is not unusual for government doctors(also every other government servant) to idle around "minding their own business".
Let digress to a conversation I had with a court staff the other day.

Me: *calls out to court staff who came out of the office to pass something to someone at the counter* Puan, En. Azman ada?
Civil Servant: Guna telephone.
Me: Dah cuba tapi tak ada orang angkat telefon. Boleh check sama ada En. Azman ada kat dalam?(They are all in the same office, possibly around 20 tables in there)
CS: Dia tak angkat dia takde-la. *quickly shuffles away*

ANYWAY,back to the story.

After all, emergency means nothing to them. Emergency is maybe a rank below "I dont give a rat's ass" or just a little above " I dun give two rats ass".

Anyway, the best quote of the day goes to *drum roll* HKL Director Datuk Dr. Zaininah Mohd Zain for this gem of a saying :-

"Hospital's investigations showed that there were ONLY eight patients and 20 relatives and that NONE of the patients were in pain because " we practise holistic pain care service and pain (is assessed) as the fifth vital sign."

AND
it gets better..

"Our hardworking doctors are but human" and if they are reading newspapers when there were no cases (nobody in pain to be precise) it should not be interpreted as neglecting their responsibility." (only if they accidently cut off the wrong leg, or cause a limb to fall of, pull a baby out of the womb way too hard..then it MAY be negligence.MAY Be only.)
*all statements in brackets are my own

And the government wonders why people would rather risk the idea of dying on the way to a private hospital 600km away then do a hop skip to the government hospital a stone's throw away.

After all, pain apparently has its own measurement in Government hospitals.

Probably something like this :-

1. Slight pain
2. Pain
3. Damn painful
4. IT HURTS MOTHERFKER, IT HURTS!
4.5 Government hospital's holistic approach to pain intervenes and decides, nope, not enough pain.
5. Too dead to know there is pain.

Then if you die, the forensic pathologist will say " Natural Death."

Case closed.