What the ? NHS Madness

[slim63]

This might be a long but keep with it & see what you can make of todays hospital/doctor saga

Late on last night & into the early hours my guts started playing up badly again, it normally goes off after an hour or two so I suffered until 5.30am then nodded off for a while ...... this meant I missed my blood test appointment at 7am so phoned the docs shortly after that only to be told tough the next appointment you can make is 3 weeks on Friday for bloods & you cant see a doc until this Friday am unless you can walk in before 9pm .....click as the phone goes down

Being a stubborn git I hung on until it got until I couldn't stand it anymore then got myself up to the local hospital walk in centre only to be told we are just nurses & cant treat you as there are no doctors here but will do observations .... then it got interesting as I was rolling about on the floor in agony ....... a nurse called 111 to get a doc , he came an hour later & I was moved to another room which they rent from the hospital apparently he decided I needed to be in hospital .......... hang on a minute thinks me, where the feck am I now ? honestly it was surreal when the doc called an ambulance & I was eventually taken to another hospital ......

6pm this evening after god knows how many hours in A&E I was taken to a ward waiting room, I was feeling a lot better by now despite having no treatment whatsoever so mentioned to the nurses that I hadn't eaten since 5.30 last night & had only had 2 cups of coffee in the morning so wondered if it was ok to nip to the machine for a bag of crisps or something ..... the uppity bitch right got her tights in a twist at that "you cant eat until you have seen the doctor!" .... he is here & will be with you in 5 minutes ! .... you are his first patient! ...yeah right!

An hour & 20 minutes later after the doc had been & fetched 2 other patients from the waiting room I upped & walked out to get some food & a drink before I passed out ....... feeling much better after that I kept on walking because if I had gone back I'm sure I would have nutted someone

I have been suffering this same complaint for over a year now, had all the tests asked of me & have been on time for every one, treatment has so far in all that time has consisted of 2 co-codomol ........ ...............................NHS at its finest?

 

[andyBeaker]

This might be a long but keep with it & see what you can make of todays hospital/doctor saga

Late on last night & into the early hours my guts started playing up badly again, it normally goes off after an hour or two so I suffered until 5.30am then nodded off for a while ...... this meant I missed my blood test appointment at 7am so phoned the docs shortly after that only to be told tough the next appointment you can make is 3 weeks on Friday for bloods & you cant see a doc until this Friday am unless you can walk in before 9pm .....click as the phone goes down

Being a stubborn git I hung on until it got until I couldn't stand it anymore then got myself up to the local hospital walk in centre only to be told we are just nurses & cant treat you as there are no doctors here but will do observations .... then it got interesting as I was rolling about on the floor in agony ....... a nurse called 111 to get a doc , he came an hour later & I was moved to another room which they rent from the hospital apparently he decided I needed to be in hospital .......... hang on a minute thinks me, where the feck am I now ? honestly it was surreal when the doc called an ambulance & I was eventually taken to another hospital ......

6pm this evening after god knows how many hours in A&E I was taken to a ward waiting room, I was feeling a lot better by now despite having no treatment whatsoever so mentioned to the nurses that I hadn't eaten since 5.30 last night & had only had 2 cups of coffee in the morning so wondered if it was ok to nip to the machine for a bag of crisps or something ..... the uppity bitch right got her tights in a twist at that "you cant eat until you have seen the doctor!" .... he is here & will be with you in 5 minutes ! .... you are his first patient! ...yeah right!

An hour & 20 minutes later after the doc had been & fetched 2 other patients from the waiting room I upped & walked out to get some food & a drink before I passed out ....... feeling much better after that I kept on walking because if I had gone back I'm sure I would have nutted someone

I have been suffering this same complaint for over a year now, had all the tests asked of me & have been on time for every one, treatment has so far in all that time has consisted of 2 co-codomol ........ ...............................NHS at its finest?

It's not all about you, you know.

 

[Jaws]

Exactly what happened to me with the hernia.
I was on a FIVE YEAR waiting list as it was 'far from life threatening'
Yer right,, that why I ended up going in on blues and twos and being on the slab for hours while the surgeons tried to keep me alive !

 

[johnboy]

Hope you're feeling better now, Diverticulitis?

 

[derek kelly]

Hope you're feeling better now, Diverticulitis?

My first thought, Bev suffers with it.

 

[Cougar377]

The NHS has an unwritten prejudice against older patients. The discrimination that it routinely displays towards anyone over 60 is appalling and urgently needs addressing.
At the end of the day, you've contributed for decades and deserve better than this.

It's curious that the Scottish Government has a Minister for The Elderly but England and Wales only has a Minister for Care. It's time that changed.

 

[Me!]

IBS? In this thread a number of us could become medically qualified. I’m on the other side of the fence and have nothing but praise for them in this area. Had day surgery a couple of weeks ago. Appt yesterday for follow up at 1400. Arrived 1345, seen by consultant at 1350, out the door by 1405 all sorted. Can’t grumble.

 

[Jaws]

IBS? In this thread a number of us could become medically qualified. I’m on the other side of the fence and have nothing but praise for them in this area. Had day surgery a couple of weeks ago. Appt yesterday for follow up at 1400. Arrived 1345, seen by consultant at 1350, out the door by 1405 all sorted. Can’t grumble.

There is little doubt that it is all down to luck.
Woman would not be here but for the first rate treatment she got ( until putin a general ward and WE had to keep an eye on the drain from here head as the nurses were all mre interested in updating their profile on farce book and such like.. It got so bad the surgeon ended up insisting she be moved back to the HIU )
But me ? Nothing but totally crap service for donkeys years

 

[Me!]

Enough about when you used to run a shop !

 

[derek kelly]

The NHS has an unwritten prejudice against older patients. The discrimination that it routinely displays towards anyone over 60 is appalling and urgently needs addressing.
At the end of the day, you've contributed for decades and deserve better than this.

It's curious that the Scottish Government has a Minister for The Elderly but England and Wales only has a Minister for Care. It's time that changed.

January this year I nearly passed out at work, my bp was 180 over 30, I was rushed to Pinderfields in an Ambulance, the attention & treatment I received was absolutely first class, every ten minutes nurses would come & check my obs & ask me how I was, they told me I was going to be admitted & they were waiting for a bed, as Bev went to get my stuff I made a miraculous recovery where all my stats levelled out & I was told I could go home once my prescription was ready, a nurse told me they checked me regularly as they expected me to go into cardiac arrest.

 

[Cougar377]

January this year I nearly passed out at work, my bp was 180 over 30, I was rushed to Pinderfields in an Ambulance, the attention & treatment I received was absolutely first class, every ten minutes nurses would come & check my obs & ask me how I was, they told me I was going to be admitted & they were waiting for a bed, as Bev went to get my stuff I made a miraculous recovery where all my stats levelled out & I was told I could go home once my prescription was ready, a nurse told me they checked me regularly as they expected me to go into cardiac arrest.

My missus spent over 10 years working in Physio on the OAP wards (or The Dept of Medicine for Older People as they call it) at our local hospital. The general standards of "care" shown to patients over 60 on the wards that she worked on was gobsmackingly bad. Nurses who'd rather huddle around a desk and talk about the TV they watch than clean up an old lady withe dementia who'd been sat in her own shit and piss all night, rude and arrogant doctors who point blank refused to actually talk to the patients, so called "modern matrons" who were more interested in freeing up beds than whether a patient was actually fit and capable enough to be discharged, physios under the age of 30 who had no idea how to talk to older people and prefered to talk about them is if they weren't there.

If she hadn't knackered her back and been forced to move to an admin role then she would have taken that decision anyway as the emotional toll was getting to her. Before she left the dept she put in a detailed formal complaint about the way OAPs are treated. As with all whistleblowing in the NHS, she was shat on from a great height and is now going through the process of taking early retirement.

 

[andyBeaker]

January this year I nearly passed out at work, my bp was 180 over 30, I was rushed to Pinderfields in an Ambulance, the attention & treatment I received was absolutely first class, every ten minutes nurses would come & check my obs & ask me how I was, they told me I was going to be admitted & they were waiting for a bed, as Bev went to get my stuff I made a miraculous recovery where all my stats levelled out & I was told I could go home once my prescription was ready, a nurse told me they checked me regularly as they expected me to go into cardiac arrest.

In fairness Derek, you do have big t#ts.

 

[slim63]

Hope you're feeling better now, Diverticulitis?

I just had to look that up as had never heard of it ! Not that as far as I am aware, its never been mentioned to me before

They keep saying pancreatitis but it does not fit with where the pain is & they keep saying does it hurt here while sticking a finger nowhere near where the pain is, I keep saying no its exactly there, where it has been for a year or more & they wander away with a confused look

 

[slim63]

IBS?.

Don't think so as the lower end of my gut seems normal, pain is high up under my ribs

 

[derek kelly]

I just had to look that up as had never heard of it ! Not that as far as I am aware, its never been mentioned to me before

They keep saying pancreatitis but it does not fit with where the pain is & they keep saying does it hurt here while sticking a finger nowhere near where the pain is, I keep saying no its exactly there, where it has been for a year or more & they wander away with a confused look

You will need the camera up your arse jobby for them to diagnose Diverticulitis, mention the possibility to your Doctor & it may register a lightbulb moment with him/her. Most people over 50 have the diverticuli but it’s only when it’s inflamed that you get to know about it.

 

[slim63]

The NHS has an unwritten prejudice against older patients. The discrimination that it routinely displays towards anyone over 60 is appalling and urgently needs addressing.
At the end of the day, you've contributed for decades and deserve better than this.

It's curious that the Scottish Government has a Minister for The Elderly but England and Wales only has a Minister for Care. It's time that changed.

I saw an example of this prejudice in the early hours of yesterday morning while in A&E, an old guy who must have been 80 if he was a day sat there obviously in pain but on the phone telling his family where he was & that he had a hernia (I could see it through his shirt )

A "nurse" (I use the word very loosely) came & called the old boy's name then stood there watching him struggling like feck to get out of the chair, me & another lad helped him up & the "nurse" wandered off with a curt "follow me". the other lad said loud enough for her to hear "I hope you get the same treatment when you are old, bitch" ....... I am not usually with someone who abuses NHS staff with that was surely justified

 

[Cougar377]

I saw an example of this prejudice in the early hours of yesterday morning while in A&E, an old guy who must have been 80 if he was a day sat there obviously in pain but on the phone telling his family where he was & that he had a hernia (I could see it through his shirt )

A "nurse" (I use the word very loosely) came & called the old boy's name then stood there watching him struggling like feck to get out of the chair, me & another lad helped him up & the "nurse" wandered off with a curt "follow me". the other lad said loud enough for her to hear "I hope you get the same treatment when you are old, bitch" ....... I am not usually with someone who abuses NHS staff with that was surely justified

Things have been going downhill with nursing staff since they introduced the requirement for a degree.

 

[slim63]

You will need the camera up your arse jobby for them to diagnose Diverticulitis, mention the possibility to your Doctor & it may register a lightbulb moment with him/her. Most people over 50 have the diverticuli but it’s only when it’s inflamed that you get to know about it.

Not going to happen mate ! but it makes sense why the docs keep asking if its constant pain or comes & goes, mine is a dull ache all the time with the occasional ooohyafecker couple of hours

 

[slim63]

Things have been going donwhill with nursing staff since they introduced the requirement for a degree.

It certainly looks that way mate, there isn't one of the staff I encountered in this latest episode at the second hospital I would bother talking to outside of that environment, it wasn't even busy that day, there were plenty of staff who seemed to be doing little else but playing on there phones, maybe its because its a major city hospital I was at this time but it seemed they couldn't care less

Balance that with the nurses at the small local hospital I first went to who were absolutely brilliant even though they were not allowed to really help me

 

[Jaws]

Things have been going downhill with nursing staff since they introduced the requirement for a degree.

It is the culture they absorb at many many further learning establishments nowadays
Where it used to be 'shut up and listen' it is now 'I know more than you .... you cannot teach me anything'
Why ? well apart from the fact they are young as we all were, they no longer have respect for anything ( apart from their own voices maybe )