As many of you who frequent the commercial aviation forum know I recently had an operation on my toe. This morning I went to the outpatients department of my hospital to be put into a cramped waiting room for 2 hours. Furthermore when me and my mum complained to the Matron, she was rude and claimed for each appointment there are 5 people 😮
She also said that they were so overbooked because it is government policy to see people within 13 weeks, funny I thought it was government policy/law to go to school and to bring up test scores, not 2.5 hour visits to the hospital,
Anybody care to share their disgust in other expierences or (Attempt) to get the hospitals out of such hatred.
By: Barnowl - 21st October 2005 at 12:10
When i fell off my motorbike in November, i fractured my right collarbone very badly- it looked like someone had tried to snap a bough of a tree in half and that it had splintered instead of snapped. This was compounded when i picked my motorbike up and lifted it onto its stand and shrugged off my backpack and jacket. Mid-way through i heard a snap and thought it was the fairing of the bike. What it was was my collarbone fracturing again, so it looked like a ‘Z’ (if you can imagine that!) I was rushed to Nevil Hall and was seen within 45mins (which on a friday night amongst all the drunks with battle-damage was quite impressive I thought. I was x-rayed (the ONLY down point of my service there- when the nurse failed to realise that to hold my arm out from my side for an x-ray would be impossible and snapped at me for not immediatly obeying her commands.) A 10 minute wait and I was being discharged with some painkillers and told to wait by the phone. After 2days, they rang to tell me to come into a ward. I was operated on that afternoon, by a surgeon whom I never had the oppertunity of meeting AT ALL, slept the night there in comfort, being looked after by two AMAZINGLY hot nurses (one Swede, the other Chinese), and was discharged the next morning, with 3 plates, 7 pins in my clavicle and an amazing scar that makes all the girls take notice (see picture).
I found the service to be of an extremely high standard, and I stress that I was on the NHS. Maybe there are people with injuries that hurt more than a broken toe eh? As for the staff- imagine 15 hour shifts amongst so many ungrateful people and red tape, burocracy and lets face it, an absolutely disgusting job. My mum used to be a State Registered Nurse in the very ward was was on- and she says that whilst fufilling, it certainly wasn’t fun sometimes…
BARNOWL
By: laviticus - 21st October 2005 at 10:28
Last year i found a lump on my self that shouldn’t be there, from the surgeon to the ward nurses( who in my opinion are the ones saving lives)they were all very reassuring and helpful.It took five days from the first appointment to the surgery the nurses looked after me and kept me calm even holding your hand on the way to the theatre.
I suppose never having a bad experience in hospital only in casualty due to too many drunks mixed with 3AM and a ill child ,five day-shifts and Laviticus’s short temper…..
I can only say the people who nurse cannot do it for the money….
By: PilotDKH - 20th October 2005 at 16:45
Strangely enough wozza,I also went to hospital for a toe operation! It was a few years ago & I had 2 ingrowing toenails,about an inch into the flesh.Just touching them caused eye-watering pain.
They kept me waiting for hours in a corridor,with no information on how long I had to wait.The thing I remember most was the humid air & the very strong stench.Like rotting flesh.What was strange was the 2 nurses sat at the reception desk,gossiping the whole time.Not even flinching at the stench!
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October 20, 2005 at 12:41 pm