I lived in Trafford General Hospital for a year, in the nurses quarters with my g/f of the time who was an ER nurse.
200+ trainee nurses a few dozen boyfriends staying and the doctors 'visiting' the nurses at all hours in the dormitories..the communal lounge was where you went to buy drugs....nurses partying until 6.30am every day/night then going on shift at 7am...I told my g/f...if I ever get sick please take me to a different hospital....she said, why?, you think it would be any different there? :lol:
Sorry to hear about your GP/hospital experience. I also had quite a bad experience here, I say once, but it was over the course of a year. My GP and optician referred me a number of times to the local hospital with suspected glaucoma, which the hospital consultant ignored for a year ("it's just a migraine, go home" not even "it's just a migraine, go and see such-and-such an appropriate person"). My GP sent me to the migraine specialist who did the tests, found no evidence of recurring migraine, and referred me back to the eye clinic.
After a year of not being able to see properly for much of every day, I went to the nearest Nuffield in York who diagnosed the problem on the first appointment and prescribed the appropriate medication. Since I couldn't afford private after-care the consultant referred me to his own NHS clinic in York hospital and the care I have received there (and still receive) is excellent.
The moral of the story: yes, it's sometimes a good idea to go private if you can, at least long enough to get a proper diagnosis if you feel the NHS is failing you. The other moral of the story: there are some good NHS hospitals out there, but you may have to go further afield to find them. It can be an inconvenience, but myself I don't complain about having the excuse for occasional days out in York :-)
I lived in Trafford General Hospital for a year, in the nurses quarters with my g/f of the time who was an ER nurse.
200+ trainee nurses a few dozen boyfriends staying and the doctors 'visiting' the nurses at all hours in the dormitories..the communal lounge was where you went to buy drugs....nurses partying until 6.30am every day/night then going on shift at 7am...I told my g/f...if I ever get sick please take me to a different hospital....she said, why?, you think it would be any different there? :lol:
It's good to know your life is in the hands of professionals :lol:
my ma was a vet for a good 20 years, and they had books in their little archive on how to make medical grade opiates from scratch if needed (granted these were pretty old books), so imagine the quality of smack you could make where humans are involved instead of anmals :lol:
Doctors are just failed vets. After all, a doctor's patient can talk and describe symptoms. A vet has to figure it out, and not only that, has to be able to do it for dozens of different species!
Doctors are just failed vets. After all, a doctor's patient can talk and describe symptoms. A vet has to figure it out, and not only that, has to be able to do it for dozens of different species!
to be fair a vet can just kill the pet if its too tricky. :D
Hospital food is the worse thing about the NHS... when I was in hospital last year with heart problems, the food was so bad!
Glad to know you're on the mend Frank....
The NHS has let my family down a lot...
1990 - my mother has an accident. Doctors do nothing for five years. Has a back operation. Is now a cripple thanks to doctors not doing anything.
1998 - my grandmother has cancer. Kent hospitals and doctors don't do a thing (also didn't help that the closest family to her (location wise) refused to help her).
2005 - I'm ill. Being diabetic, it can be dangerous. On the Monday, told it is chest infection, told to drink flat lemonade. Thursday (I'm told as I have no memory from the Wednesday to a few weeks later) - rushed into hospital and develop phenomona. Luckly, in hospital the doctors did their best even when it seemed I would die.
2006 - my aunt is seriously ill. Had a minor stroke, was diagnosed with brain tumour. They do nothing for over a week. Taken from one hospital to another. Then they tell her (alone) that she has to have brain surgery the next morning. Half an hour later, she's dead. She was 38. (Incidentally, my other aunt took her son (the thieving git) to our GP and he said to him 'so you're the one whose mum dropped down dead')
Hospital food is the worse thing about the NHS... when I was in hospital last year with heart problems, the food was so bad!
Glad to know you're on the mend Frank....
The NHS has let my family down a lot...
1990 - my mother has an accident. Doctors do nothing for five years. Has a back operation. Is now a cripple thanks to doctors not doing anything.
1998 - my grandmother has cancer. Kent hospitals and doctors don't do a thing (also didn't help that the closest family to her (location wise) refused to help her).
2005 - I'm ill. Being diabetic, it can be dangerous. On the Monday, told it is chest infection, told to drink flat lemonade. Thursday (I'm told as I have no memory from the Wednesday to a few weeks later) - rushed into hospital and develop phenomona. Luckly, in hospital the doctors did their best even when it seemed I would die.
2006 - my aunt is seriously ill. Had a minor stroke, was diagnosed with brain tumour. They do nothing for over a week. Taken from one hospital to another. Then they tell her (alone) that she has to have brain surgery the next morning. Half an hour later, she's dead. She was 38. (Incidentally, my other aunt took her son (the thieving git) to our GP and he said to him 'so you're the one whose mum dropped down dead')
ROTFL! You had Phenomona? WTF is that then? "Phenomena" is the plural of Phenomenon, which is "Something that happens". Perhaps the doctors know you well?
You really are comedy gold, what with your lemonade for a chest infection.
Seriously folks, you all bitch about how "nothing was done for a week" and "the doctors did nothing" - how do you know nothing was done? You think they sit around on their arses all day doing **** all?
Christ, sometimes I wish I could grab you lot by the scruffs of your neck and show what really poorly people are like, on a busy ward.
It's depressing that because you personally aren't a priority (chest infections don't generally require a lot of nursing care) you assume that nobody else is getting any care. People are dying in hospitals because ****heads are demanding to be "seen" in less than an hour during which time that other person doesn't get the care they really need because some pillock is removing essential staff to deal with his heavy cold.
So I couldn't find the right spelling! It's the same illness that killed Richard Whitley (Countdown) and Jeremy Beadle.
As it happens, when I had the chest infection, I was being sick and not keeping food down. On the Thursday, it turned out I had Diabetic Ketoacidosis which is VERY dangerous and it says that when it happens, to take the person concerned into hospital.
I don't bother the doctors unless it is absolutely necessary.
get someone with better hand writing, a six year old perhaps. :grin:
It was actually based on my memory.. I typed it into the search engine and it gave a suggestion..
The last thing I remember before waking up in hospital was receiving a trade package - mostly because the person who posted it accidentally put his credit card in the package!
I was in hospital some years ago to get a lump removed from my neck (luckily it was benign) and the food was terrible, i was in a lot of pain so didn't eat much anyway.
I remember one of the meals was supposed to be mince and potatoes, the potatoes were lumpy and the mince was tasteless, and the vegetables consisted of 1 piece of carrot. Someone told me the food was made in England and brought up to the hospital, i didn't understand why they didn't have somewhere closer to do it.
ROTFL! You had Phenomona? WTF is that then? "Phenomena" is the plural of Phenomenon, which is "Something that happens". Perhaps the doctors know you well?
You really are comedy gold, what with your lemonade for a chest infection.
Seriously folks, you all bitch about how "nothing was done for a week" and "the doctors did nothing" - how do you know nothing was done? You think they sit around on their arses all day doing **** all?
Christ, sometimes I wish I could grab you lot by the scruffs of your neck and show what really poorly people are like, on a busy ward.
It's depressing that because you personally aren't a priority (chest infections don't generally require a lot of nursing care) you assume that nobody else is getting any care. People are dying in hospitals because ****heads are demanding to be "seen" in less than an hour during which time that other person doesn't get the care they really need because some pillock is removing essential staff to deal with his heavy cold.
D.
Blaming the people you are entrusted to help for the failure of the service they rely on truly is a sign that the system is fooked.
Instead of blaming others maybe you should look at what YOU can do to improve the situation.
Its laughable that i get better treatment and service when im returning a faulty toaster than when visiting our national health service.
Its laughable that i get better treatment and service when im returning a faulty toaster than when visiting our national health service.
You're suggesting they should just chuck you in a skip and send you to china to be broken down into raw materials, and replace you with a fresh new chinese person. I can't deny that would work...
It's pretty much that you only hear of the things that went wrong - the most vocal - and not when things went to plan or went aces. I'm not saying things like the NHS doesn't have it's faults but to just only hear tales of woe doesn't mean it's fundamentally broken. I can regale you of stories where the NHS has worked for me and my family and close friends but in the scheme of things the fact that things worked out all right in the end means more to me, to be honest. I'm sure if things had went wrong, it'd be a different story etc etc.
The most serious thing I've had recently was tonsillitis some time back, it was quite severe so my doc sent me to the hospital ENT ward for the weekend.
Despite suffering a bit I was impressed with all the staff, and after thinking about it a week or so after, popped them an email just saying thanks. I figured most people I know talk about their bad experiences so I thought they'd appreciate a positive comment once in a while..!
Anyway, Frank, hope the recovery is swift and you're back to your guitar noodling asap.
...the food was terrible, i was in a lot of pain so didn't eat much anyway.
I remember one of the meals was supposed to be mince and potatoes, the potatoes were lumpy and the mince was tasteless, and the vegetables consisted of 1 piece of carrot. Someone told me the food was made in England and brought up to the hospital, i didn't understand why they didn't have somewhere closer to do it.
..That made me laugh, considering most of your pics on the saucer thread..! :lol:
You're suggesting they should just chuck you in a skip and send you to china to be broken down into raw materials, and replace you with a fresh new chinese person. I can't deny that would work...
I tell you what their opening times are a damn site better that my local GP.
Closed on a Sunday! its not the bloomin 80s you know!
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200+ trainee nurses a few dozen boyfriends staying and the doctors 'visiting' the nurses at all hours in the dormitories..the communal lounge was where you went to buy drugs....nurses partying until 6.30am every day/night then going on shift at 7am...I told my g/f...if I ever get sick please take me to a different hospital....she said, why?, you think it would be any different there? :lol:
After a year of not being able to see properly for much of every day, I went to the nearest Nuffield in York who diagnosed the problem on the first appointment and prescribed the appropriate medication. Since I couldn't afford private after-care the consultant referred me to his own NHS clinic in York hospital and the care I have received there (and still receive) is excellent.
The moral of the story: yes, it's sometimes a good idea to go private if you can, at least long enough to get a proper diagnosis if you feel the NHS is failing you. The other moral of the story: there are some good NHS hospitals out there, but you may have to go further afield to find them. It can be an inconvenience, but myself I don't complain about having the excuse for occasional days out in York :-)
It's good to know your life is in the hands of professionals :lol:
my ma was a vet for a good 20 years, and they had books in their little archive on how to make medical grade opiates from scratch if needed (granted these were pretty old books), so imagine the quality of smack you could make where humans are involved instead of anmals :lol:
Doctors are just failed vets. After all, a doctor's patient can talk and describe symptoms. A vet has to figure it out, and not only that, has to be able to do it for dozens of different species!
to be fair a vet can just kill the pet if its too tricky. :D
(and charge you for it)
Glad to know you're on the mend Frank....
The NHS has let my family down a lot...
1990 - my mother has an accident. Doctors do nothing for five years. Has a back operation. Is now a cripple thanks to doctors not doing anything.
1998 - my grandmother has cancer. Kent hospitals and doctors don't do a thing (also didn't help that the closest family to her (location wise) refused to help her).
2005 - I'm ill. Being diabetic, it can be dangerous. On the Monday, told it is chest infection, told to drink flat lemonade. Thursday (I'm told as I have no memory from the Wednesday to a few weeks later) - rushed into hospital and develop phenomona. Luckly, in hospital the doctors did their best even when it seemed I would die.
2006 - my aunt is seriously ill. Had a minor stroke, was diagnosed with brain tumour. They do nothing for over a week. Taken from one hospital to another. Then they tell her (alone) that she has to have brain surgery the next morning. Half an hour later, she's dead. She was 38. (Incidentally, my other aunt took her son (the thieving git) to our GP and he said to him 'so you're the one whose mum dropped down dead')
ROTFL! You had Phenomona? WTF is that then? "Phenomena" is the plural of Phenomenon, which is "Something that happens". Perhaps the doctors know you well?
You really are comedy gold, what with your lemonade for a chest infection.
Seriously folks, you all bitch about how "nothing was done for a week" and "the doctors did nothing" - how do you know nothing was done? You think they sit around on their arses all day doing **** all?
Christ, sometimes I wish I could grab you lot by the scruffs of your neck and show what really poorly people are like, on a busy ward.
It's depressing that because you personally aren't a priority (chest infections don't generally require a lot of nursing care) you assume that nobody else is getting any care. People are dying in hospitals because ****heads are demanding to be "seen" in less than an hour during which time that other person doesn't get the care they really need because some pillock is removing essential staff to deal with his heavy cold.
D.
As it happens, when I had the chest infection, I was being sick and not keeping food down. On the Thursday, it turned out I had Diabetic Ketoacidosis which is VERY dangerous and it says that when it happens, to take the person concerned into hospital.
I don't bother the doctors unless it is absolutely necessary.
pneumonia
next time dont get a doctor to write it down :D
get someone with better hand writting, a six year old perhaps. :grin:
It's kind of fitting that Richard Whiteley died of a 9 letter word
dictionary corner would be proud. :D
It was actually based on my memory.. I typed it into the search engine and it gave a suggestion..
The last thing I remember before waking up in hospital was receiving a trade package - mostly because the person who posted it accidentally put his credit card in the package!
I remember one of the meals was supposed to be mince and potatoes, the potatoes were lumpy and the mince was tasteless, and the vegetables consisted of 1 piece of carrot. Someone told me the food was made in England and brought up to the hospital, i didn't understand why they didn't have somewhere closer to do it.
They couldn't find anyone who knew what a vegetable was? ;)
/me runs away
Well he does spend every day getting vomited and shat on so I wouldn't blame him if he was :)
*throws a haggis at guesser*
Crivvens!
:-o:-o
Blaming the people you are entrusted to help for the failure of the service they rely on truly is a sign that the system is fooked.
Instead of blaming others maybe you should look at what YOU can do to improve the situation.
Its laughable that i get better treatment and service when im returning a faulty toaster than when visiting our national health service.
You're suggesting they should just chuck you in a skip and send you to china to be broken down into raw materials, and replace you with a fresh new chinese person. I can't deny that would work...
Despite suffering a bit I was impressed with all the staff, and after thinking about it a week or so after, popped them an email just saying thanks. I figured most people I know talk about their bad experiences so I thought they'd appreciate a positive comment once in a while..!
Anyway, Frank, hope the recovery is swift and you're back to your guitar noodling asap.
..That made me laugh, considering most of your pics on the saucer thread..! :lol:
I tell you what their opening times are a damn site better that my local GP.
Closed on a Sunday! its not the bloomin 80s you know!
There are 6 other days of the week, make your appointment for one of them instead...
At least they tasted nice!:smile: