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October 8, 2025 • 15 mins

Today Barra helped Russell open Lisa and Russell's Book of Records to find out who has had to wait at a hospital the longest. They started at just 15 minutes, but then it really began to grow.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time to build another chapter for this. Saddy
set another record. Incredible world rack yours around Russell's folk
of records, We've never seen anything like it. Yeah, today
we're looking for how.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Long have you had to wait at a hospital?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Not be in a hospital, but wait at a hospital
to get into to be seen too? And have you
had much experience at hospitals?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Personally?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I think on the odd occasion I have. You know,
when you get those chest pains and your wife says you.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Better go to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
You get a few of those dudes and then you.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Start googling doctor Google and you go, yes, I definitely
should go down there. But the thing with chest pains
is they do move you through pretty quickly, so at
my age it's more that space. I would probably go
to the GP, or try to hang on to get
to the GP if I could, because it's normally just
a weekend thing, isn't it. If it's weekday, maybe try

(00:58):
to get into a doctor. But yeah, there's not enough
bulk billing. I've noticed as well. What's your record? How
long have you waited?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well compared to some people, probably not so bad. The
last time I went to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I was a bit. I was a bit out of
it because you know, in the ambulance.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
They give you a little bit of a shot of
the older, the morphe.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
You went in an ambulance. Oh yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Absolutely, it was a needle in the army.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah. I had a few pains here and there, and
I had to I had to go.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
In and you ran, So you went ramped.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, I don't remember being ramped for too long. But
what happens is then you they just move you just
inside the door at the et department, and then you
move a little further, and then you move a little further,
and so I think it was something like maybe, like
I said, I was a kind of I was in
a happy place at the time. Yeah, I was in

(01:51):
a comfortable place at the time. I think it might
have been maybe six or seven hours before I finally
got onto got onto a ward.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
So which is nothing on people.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Let me ask you that if you're in no pain,
you're not that concerned. No, you in the right spot,
you start to get a bit tired because you just
there's a lot going on around you and you just
want to get to where you need to be so
that you can really rest.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
As much as you can rest in a hospital.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
You should have started doing some of your Spanish lessons.
You know, you're learning Spanish. Is a little while ago
learned Spanish.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Though I thought, really hadn't entered my mind. Yeah, maybe
that's a good idea. Maybe you need to take some
homework with.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
You, write a novel, bash at a novel.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Rested on the gurney.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Besides you graduate from UNI.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
But look, I mean it is, as you were pointing
to before, it is kind of topical because I guess
you know, we've had three consecutive months of record ambulance ramping.
That's before you even get into the hospital. That's why
we're calling it waiting out the hospital because I mean,
I mean, you know, not wishing to get political here,
but you know, ten years ago when it was a
different mob in, you know, though people were having a
crack at them.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I think the ramping was.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
At about five one hundred hours. Last month, we're up
to over seven thousand hours.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's a lot of waiting.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, obviously I did a bit of a survey and
was asking people why they were there, and mostly because
it was free.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
And that's a good thing, right, Well, that's.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Right, But maybe if there's more bulk billing for GPS,
not trying to solve all the political solutions you want.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
To hit here, but and more doctors, that would help
the ramping.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I know, but it just doesn't that you know what
comes first. You know, this is not like because the
other day the former head of health was saying that
building a new hospital is not going to fix the problem.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
So how to do my tip problem?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
My tips would be to take food and water as well, because.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
It depends on what steak you're in at the time.
At the time, pack a bag. I remember at the time,
I don't really remember thinking about getting some.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Get me in the back of this ambulance and get me.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Thinking about your wife's You should have been thinking.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
About you, I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
An early one in on the text line Sophie, I
was lucky. So this is we're starting low here. I
was lucky only fifteen minutes with a broken foot at
Charlie's well done, Charlie's fifteen that's good.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
You understand triage, don't you. Yeah, yeah, of course that's
how it works. And if you get ranked straight away,
and that's the toughest job. The nurses and that that
have to rank people's illness and make sure that they don't.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Stuff it up.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
So that's people have to go in there and put
on their acting skills.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
But I'm not saying I'm not saying that.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I just know if you've got a heart problem in
sort of and if there's a big broken bone or something,
you're not going to be sitting in the waiting nun
for a long time. On weekends, there's a lot of injuries,
sporting injuries. It's incredible how many.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Sporting injuries and then also partying injuries tend to spike
on Friday and Saturday nights.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Like overcooking it with Yeah, okay, yeah, think of that.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, number numbers don't lie. It puts a lot of
extra pressure on.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So fifteen minute it said, that's not bad.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's a good starting point. I don't think you're going
to get yourself a place in Lisa and Russell's record
book with fifteen but it's it's a good starting point.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Sophie Christopher from Haynes.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Six hours, that's not bad. Six hours not.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Bad, not well, I think there's some bigger numbers heading
our ways rightly, Graham, our head of programming here, who
just ducked his head in the door, said he did
four and a half hours easy, got off easy.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
So that means he could have watched the entire Lord
of the Rings trilogy.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
In four and a half hours.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
How long?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
No, no, no, no, I think I think you need
to from major surgery.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
To get through all of that. You need to be
in there for weeks, don't you?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Three times? Three nine hours?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Nine hours? There you go.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
So neither neither Graham would have been there long enough
to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But we
want to hear how long have you had to wait?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Out of hospitals.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I've worked out how to get attention as well. You
either order an uber after you've been there several hours.
As soon as you do, then someone comes out. Start
eating a big meal, go to the toilet, go and
pay your parking. That's when the that's when they come out.
They go, where's mister Barrett? His eyes gone? Okay, off
the list.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
But I look, you know, from my experience, and I've
been to hospital a couple of times, it's not exactly
like the staff for you know, kicking back with a
nice ti, a couple in a nice vovo, you know,
they're they're flat out.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
I had it.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
I just had a text from a tree Arge nurse.
She said what she says is on a scale of
one too. I googled it and now I think I'm dying.
How bad is your pain? She says to them, that's
the that's the new barometer.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Doctor Google must be there. They must hate doctor Google.
I've definitely got no way.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh god hate Lisa from Lakeland's Good Morning, How long
have you had to wait at the hospital?

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh, yes, good morning. I've waited, you know, to anywhere
from eight to ten hours. I guess it just depends
on how long. You know, how many people are you know,
out the back of the EAS department and inside the
emergency area, and you know your location as well. So
I'm down in the pill region. So you know, not

(07:19):
a big, big, big hospital, I come. You know, we've
got Royal Perth and everything.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
But it covers a big area, doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
It does cover a big area, you know. And the
look the hats off to the ED department and all
the hospital stuff, because you know, they do try so hard.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
At least what about when you're waiting in the waiting
room and then another ambulance comes in because you can
see it, Charlie. You can see the ambulances come in
and you're thinking, oh, let's just hope this is a
bad one because he'll get in front of me. So
Russell comes in off his head on his painkillers and
he pushes in in front of you.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Mate, go back out.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
But I don't know that I'm doing it.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I don't know that I'm doing it, Lisa, because I'm
off my head on the on painkiller.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yeah, and that's you know, that's what what meurses do.
I'm a nurse myself, so you know you're triarching your chest.
Pain you know always goes goes before you and it
depends on you know, if someone comes in with you know,
a bit of a you know, grayze on the toe
or something like that, you know they're going to be
pushed way back. So they've got to realize that. You know,
you have to be patient in those kinds of things.

(08:27):
But I was just thinking about the new telehealthy you know,
the Health Direct line is it's a it's a godsend.
We use telehealth cants where I work, so you know,
it's available to the public and it just stops this
kind of ramping you know, you know, in case of emergency,

(08:49):
you know you don't have to go to the GP.
You know, you can actually talk to someone from the
West Australian you know, the Virtual Leading Department and get
triarched that way.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Jelly Health. Jelly Health beats doctor Google.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
It does, it does you're talking to someone and that's
a really, really good suggestion. Hey, thank you very much, Lisa.
I guess Bara, one of the important things in the
eed section, you know, when you have got people who
come in with a cut or a sprain or something
like that, was going to make sure the vending machine
is full at all times.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
It steals it steals your soul. The vending machine, it
steals yourself, steals your money away.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
But when you're sitting there for hours on end going
to it because you can see an ambulance coming with
someone more important.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Hey, done from my Luca.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Good morning. How long have you had to wait at
the hospital?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Fourteen and a quarter hour?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Oh yeah, what was your what was what was your ailment? Donnie?
What was your armor?

Speaker 6 (09:47):
I had to take my wife and she was saving
some serious heart palpitations. She's not a well person.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Invest of times, oh so even with even with hard
it was fourteen hours. Okay, it would that have been
done because of his story very they had documents or
something as to she'd.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Been there before and they knew or no, not at all.
Well that's amazing history, that John.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
That must have been frightening because you're sitting there thinking
anything could happen at any moment.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Eh.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Yeah, Yeah. We arrived eleven in the morning and they
checked her batal signs straight away, having a heart attack
at that moment. So we'll put you in category four
with somebody else, with everybody else, I see. Yeah, fourteen
and a.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Quarter hour, so they do check.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So at least that takes a bit
of the pressure off, a little bit of the worry,
given that, you know, they take the vitals and all
that sort of thing first.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
Yes, but can I just say, minutes after we arrived,
an elderly couple of gentin years he was I think
eighty nine and his wife were arrived and he'd been
he'd been to his GP earlyer in the morning. He'd
had a melanoma cut out of his cheek and his
face was red and blown up like a balloon, very frail, gentlemen,

(11:02):
and his doctor had said you need intravenous antibiotics. Now
get to emergency, and yeah, he was still waiting when
we got to be seen. So he was there as well,
over fourteen hours in that condition at that age.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's yeah. The GP good.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, the GP has not done well there. No, let's
be honest, all right, I mean.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
So the record is going higher. And we started at
fifteen minutes, we're up to what are we up to?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Now?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Fourteen and a half hours? Lynnette in Bennett Springs hit us,
how long have you had to wait? I'm sorry you've
run that PA's one more time. We had the dramatic
music too loud for you.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
I thought you said thirty three hours.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I thought, nay, yees, thirty three that's like you're taking
residence there?

Speaker 4 (11:56):
What thirty t did that work?

Speaker 6 (11:58):
I went and by ambulance at eleven o'clock in the
morning on a Thursday morning, and I got put into
award on Friday evening at about eight thirty.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Wow, well you needed a Lisa agreement and I just.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Got up around and forgotten about us and.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Moving.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Please roll, could we ask what? Lynette? Could we ask
what was wrong with you?

Speaker 6 (12:21):
I had RSB and I've already got lung condition, lung problems,
so it wasn't it wasn't very good for.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Me for that very comfortable thirty three hours.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, all.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Right, thank you. Thirty three hours barrow.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's no, and I'll beat that.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's very that's inneatable.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
If you want to bet, there's always someone around the
corner ready to beat it, isn't that right, Bernie in Kubera.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
That's right more than Russell morning made?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
All right, go and hit us with it. Are you
going to?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Are you going to get your name into Lisa and
Russell's record book?

Speaker 7 (12:52):
Oh? There, I've got this so far. But yeah, I
think Susie just wait it out for me. It was
about ninety.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Six hours, ninety six hours, four days, four days.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
You were there, you moved in.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Did you get finding the place?

Speaker 5 (13:05):
Nah?

Speaker 7 (13:06):
But I know every ceiling in the Royal Birth now,
so I was moving ahead on the gurney affair a bit.
Four days you.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Would have been watching staff come and go and come
and go.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
People give Yeah, people in.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
A mans of sleeps from all the cathodine and morphine.
They kept me young so they couldn't deal with me
at the time, see.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
People giving birth. Did you think you were in a
docker or.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Something was gone up for a couple of days of
all those drugs, I didn't know where I was, what
was happening. I just know I went in on a
Thursday and I didn't get onto a ward and surgery
until the Sunday night.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well at least at least you were asleep for some
of those four days then.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
Huh yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, So I think I've got
this record.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Ane, Bernie. I'm getting the engravers there. They're ready right now.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Mate.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
They're putting your name on the trophy and the printers
are putting your name in Lisa and Russell's record book.
Ninety six hours waiting at a hospital.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
King of the vending machine.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
You weren't You weren't a trouble.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
It wasn't about It was surgery when it came out,
so fur the days of stuff. And did you jump
like a mummy?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Did you jump on scales as soon as you got home?

Speaker 7 (14:18):
There's nothing, there's nothing of me as it is, so
there wasn't much left at that point.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
You weren't a troublesome patient, were you? They weren't just
kind of moving you around, old God with no Hey,
you take him, you take him?

Speaker 7 (14:28):
No, No, I had it. I was waiting for a
plastic surgeon and unfortunately it was Easter and so there
wasn't one available for for many days.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
I think they're all eagles people down there. I said,
you're a doctor.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Some of them were down to supporters.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
They just left me out and the bloody again.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, some of the plastic surgeons were down at Dunsburg
at the holiday house, mate, Bernie that weekend. Hey Bernie,
thank you mate, well done. Well, I say, well done.
It's a pretty tough way to etch your way into
the record books. But ninety six hours waiting at a hospital, Bernie,
let's hope you don't have to go back again anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Mate.

Speaker 7 (15:03):
Absolutely, Thanks guys, you having good day.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Thank you
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