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She sat waiting on an old examination bed with no sheets, begging fruitlessly for an injection to kill the pain.
When I was sat on an examination bed in hospital recently, repeatedly being stabbed with a sharp pin to test reflexes, I was asked if it hurt.
One woman had not had a pap smear for 10 years because her doctor could not transfer her on to the fixed-height examination bed.
Mrs Newman says that her husband did not get on to the examination bed, that his pulse was not taken, and that the assesser did not look at his chest, otherwise he would have seen scars.
The report says that Mr Newman's pulse was fine, that he had no scars on his chest and that he managed to climb on to the examination bed without any problem.
I imagined myself, some decades from now, nervously perched on the papered leatherette of an examination bed, and my doctor directing her sad, humane eyes at me a moment before clearing her throat and saying, "Top Five Signs You Probably Have Pancreatic Cancer".
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The survey showed that of the 3,553 response there were just over 14,000 fixed-height examination beds and only 719 adjustable-height examination beds.
Back in 2003 a community advocacy group, Access for All Alliance, undertook a survey of all general practices around Australia to identify which provided access to adjustable-height examination beds.
An open letter from the Human Rights Commission found that in many situations patients, particularly women with disability, do not get a service at all because of the inaccessibility of fixed-height examination beds.
Since the clinic was reopened, with a £13m new building 18 months ago, all the fittings have been redesigned to suit the clientele, so that the examination beds are extra wide, and the chairs and the wheelchairs in the waiting room are made for bulky patients.
Key medical equipment includes examination beds, stethoscope, blood pressure apparatus, weighing scale, foetoscope, delivery bed and kit, neonatal resuscitation mask and bag, measuring board and tape, refrigerator, vaccine carriers, ice box, and first aid kit.
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