Andrew McIntosh
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180 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 1 May
Andrew McIntosh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Three years ago I had been living a sort of busy, productive life, working for a tech company.
I was actually on a work trip to Wellington and I came back and I developed some pain in the eye and thought it was sinus.
That turned into the emergency room and I got diagnosed without leaving hospital.
and ended up on the haematology ward and started my first round of chemo without going home.
They told me that I had an aggressive lymphoma.
They said from the outset that it would be hard to beat it, it would be a rough road, and that I had a 40 to 50% chance of surviving it.
So when I went to transplant, I really felt like there was a good chance that I was saying goodbye.
So I'm very grateful that I have gotten through.
I'm still angry about the significant gaps that we do have in our care.
And what I'm angry about is that the gaps that I had in the system, they cost me more.
So they cost me in terms of the outcomes that I've got.
They cost me in terms of not being able to get back to the workforce.
They've also cost the health system because for that entire eight months that I was waiting, I was on very expensive drugs.
I was seeing the haematology team every week.
I was getting blood tests done.
I needed monitoring.
I needed tests.
So it's not saving the health system money by not providing these services.
They gave me the treatment that I waited for eventually, and then I needed more help out the backside of it.
So I'm angry that there's no point, there's not even a cost-saving benefit to not providing these outcomes.
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