Doctors

[derek kelly]

a few months back Bev had a blood test, she was referred for the camera up the Jacksie as they said it was one of two possibilities, one being cancer, the results came back clear.
A couple of weeks back after another blood test she was told she had hep b or liver failure due to Simvastatyn, she had an ultrasound yesterday, she went to her Doctor this morning & amazingly the results were already back, little bit of fatty tissue on her liver, perfectly normal for her age so no liver failure

 

[T.C]

Thats great news.

 

[derek kelly]

Thats great news.

Brilliant news but a bit annoyed with Doctor being the prophet of doom.

 

[Malone]

Doctors always practice because they’ll never know exactly.

 

[andyBeaker]

On Monday we were more or less told my mother in law was at deaths door, yesterday we were told to expect her to be sent home this weekend.

I got an endoscope from Screwfix this week if anyone needs an exploratory probing done.

 

[derek kelly]

I got an endoscope from Screwfix this week if anyone needs an exploratory probing done.

What er lube do you er use? Asking for a friend like

 

[Squag1]

Nick Brick, Joe Dunk, Mike Crump.
All real people I knew.

 

[andyBeaker]

What er lube do you er use? Asking for a friend like

ACF50 normally, but I can make an exception in your case and use dripping.

 

[derek kelly]

ACF50 normally, but I can make an exception in your case and use dripping.

Acf50 causes ring sting...err so I’m told.

 

[Minkey]

a few months back Bev had a blood test, she was referred for the camera up the Jacksie as they said it was one of two possibilities, one being cancer, the results came back clear.
A couple of weeks back after another blood test she was told she had hep b or liver failure due to Simvastatyn, she had an ultrasound yesterday, she went to her Doctor this morning & amazingly the results were already back, little bit of fatty tissue on her liver, perfectly normal for her age so no liver failure

That is great news.

Getting an appointment here is terrible , I had an appointment last Monday with my new Dr (nice man) said I needed some blood tests and to make a double appointment to see him, blood tests next Tuesday appointment to see Dr 22nd July

 

[andyBeaker]

On Monday we were more or less told my mother in law was at deaths door, yesterday we were told to expect her to be sent home this weekend.
.

And it all changed again yesterday.

It goes against the grain to criticise the NHS, I know three people who work for them and appreciate the challenges they face...........but to get such conflicting information from a number of different people is at best perplexing. We haven't seen the same person twice in eight days of hospitalisation.

 

[Cougar377]

And it all changed again yesterday.

It goes against the grain to criticise the NHS, I know three people who work for them and appreciate the challenges they face...........but to get such conflicting information from a number of different people is at best perplexing. We haven't seen the same person twice in eight days of hospitalisation.

My other half works for the NHS (13 years now) and some of the stuff that she tells me would make your hair stand on end. The NHS as an organisation seems to acccept mediocre as an acceptable standard for most things - whether it be staff, management, equipment or procedures. It uses bullying and intimidation when criticised by it's own personnel and has a culture of putting self protection over everything else when it gets things wrong.

Criticising it to highlight deficiencies with the intention of improvement is the only way that it will change for the better. I personally think it's time for a public enquiry into the reasons for such systemic failure across the whole of the NHS.

 

[andyBeaker]

My other half works for the NHS (13 years now) and some of the stuff that she tells me would make your hair stand on end. The NHS as an organisation seems to acccept mediocre as an acceptable standard for most things - whether it be staff, management, equipment or procedures. It uses bullying and intimidation when criticised by it's own personnel and has a culture of putting self protection over everything else when it gets things wrong.

Criticising it to highlight deficiencies with the intention of improvement is the only way that it will change for the better. I personally think it's time for a public enquiry into the reasons for such systemic failure across the whole of the NHS.

Probably didn't make myself clear...I'm not going to criticise individuals in the front line.......

 

[ianrobbo1]

My other half works for the NHS (13 years now) and some of the stuff that she tells me would make your hair stand on end. The NHS as an organisation seems to acccept mediocre as an acceptable standard for most things - whether it be staff, management, equipment or procedures. It uses bullying and intimidation when criticised by it's own personnel and has a culture of putting self protection over everything else when it gets things wrong.

Criticising it to highlight deficiencies with the intention of improvement is the only way that it will change for the better. I personally think it's time for a public enquiry into the reasons for such systemic failure across the whole of the NHS.

Sonia, a woman I know, was vilified and bullied out of the NHS, she was held at gunpoint in a patients house she had been sent to see, her bosses in the NHS knew the patient was mentally unstable and was prone to violence, but they sent her anyway, when she had to have time off for the shock was when the crap really started to fly, coverups from top to bottom, tell anyone what really happened and no one will believe you, worse than coppers closing ranks if someone drops a bollock!!

 

[derek kelly]

When father in law was in seacroft after his first bowel cancer op the guy in the next bed died during the night, the ward sister called for the young agency Nurse & told her to perform last Offices, the young lass explained that she’d never done them & felt uncomfortable doing them unsupervised, the ward sister was very abrupt & ordered her to do it, the young lass stuck to her guns & pointed out that it wasn’t her responsibility, it turns out the ward sister didn’t have a clue what to do so tried bullying the young lass.

 

[Cougar377]

When she still worked in Physio my wife was tasked to assist a physiotherapist with suctioning an elderly dementia patient who was in the final stages of palliative care. He was expected to die within days.
She queried the physio and her team leader as to whether it was relevant to be doing this as he was already on his last legs, very weak and prone to anxiety attacks. She was told by both to just get on with it because a doctor had ordered it.

The process is an unpleasant one at the best of times, involving a suction tube being fed down the throat or nose to get to the phlegm and cattargh.
As she predicted, he reacted badly to it and arrested as the physio was feeding the tube in while my wife tried to restrain him while reassuring him. The physio froze completely, leaving my wife to call for a crash team.
The old boy sadly died while they watched the team trying to resuscitate him, which prompted the physio to burst into tears and run off.
When my wife got back to the physio dept. the physio was being comforted by several other physios, plus the team leader.
No one said anything to her so she went to the loo and had a good cry.
When she got back no one asked her how she was. Her team leader subsequently told her that she thought as she was older she would be able to handle it better.

The subsequent investigation was a total whitewash and no one was held to account.

This is just one example that's she's witnessed over the years of staff incompetence, indifference or an inability to show initiative.

 

[Minkey]

My sister was sent to a care home from hospital and within 24hrs she had passed away due to sepsis caused by a urine infection, the hospital should have picked it up, she was only 60

 

[Cougar377]

My sister was sent to a care home from hospital and within 24hrs she had passed away due to sepsis caused by a urine infection, the hospital should have picked it up, she was only 60

According to SWMBO you can't miss a UTI,, the smell gives it away. Once experienced never forgotten..

 

[ianrobbo1]

If I was to have another stroke, I'd want it in Egypt, compared to here at Wakefield they were fantastic, from Sunday when admitted to the Thursday, nothing, that was 2011 I only got a scan because I was being discharged, this last time they had me wait for 5 hours until they found an Egyptian reader, before admitting me, my paperwork was in English, the same useless bastards didn't bother opening my paperwork to even see if it was in English, and no they didn't tell us why we were waiting so long, the week in total isolation got right up my nose, told Wednesday I was leaving "being discharged" on Friday as all I needed was the drugs to keep me alive, come Friday no drugs I've to stay until Tuesday, as Mr Chemist was on holiday Derr fuck off, so I discharged myself and got my drugs from my doctor Saturday morning. NHS crap, twice I could have died due to incompetence by "senior" so-called doctors.

 

[Minkey]

According to SWMBO you can't miss a UTI,, the smell gives it away. Once experienced never forgotten..

The hospital then should definitely have picked it up and treated accordingly