Freaked out by the hospital!

[ilsonchick]

Ok so i posted earlier about a member of my family taking an overdose and when we heard we rushed to the hospital...anyway...i was totally disgusted at what i saw to be honest. Some poor old lady must have been in her 80's was lying on a stretcher in the middle of A&E crying, bleeding and she wanted some tissue as she had been sneezing and she went "excuse me love" to this nurse walking by and this nurse just turned and spat at her "DONT ASK ME" and walked off. Then some guy was spewing his guts up into a bowl loud as anything in the middle of the floor on a stretcher and no one even glanced at him or cared, didnt offer him a tissue or some water and this was right infront of kiddies and patients, then next to him was a guy cuffed up laughing and joking with two coppers and then when the doctor came to see my family member, they just didnt give a toss, told her if she wanted councelling to go to her GP gave her no leaflets or shred of sympathy,empathy or anything! Its scared me out of my wits now... i dont EVER want to go into hospital it looked like a total car crash scene and the comments/lack of help from professional staff were totally and utterly awful. How can it be like this?

[trt]

'' this nurse just turned and spat at her "DONT ASK ME" and walked off. ''

Sorry I find that very hard to believe!!!

[McMouse]

In my experience A&E operate effective triage routines which deal with priority cases. I hope that should I been unfortunate enough to have another heart attack A&E will see me before these non-emergency cases you quote.

[ummmm]

ditto

[thetruthhurts]

All this happening in A&E at the same time? You sure you're not confusing real life with an episode of 'Casualty'?

[supersuezy24]

I wouldn't be surprised with a nurse saying that.
My friend had a tumour on a bone in her neck which weakened the bone somehow and after a bad fall she broke a bone in her neck, when she went to a&e in a hospital in Dublin she told a nurse/doctor that she thought she broke her neck, the nurse then told her "not to be ridiculous and that she was truly living up to her blonde image if she thought that".
My friend couldn't believe it and asked for another doctor...Turned out her neck was broken and she was in hospital for several months.

Ilsonchick, I think it's horrible that nurses doctors etc can speak this way to some patients.
My mam had to get a mole removed from her foot as it grown bigger and there was a change in colour on it, Our gp advised her to get it removed which she did, however the doctor in the hospital who was removing it was so offensive to my mam and accused her of being self obsessed and vain because she was getting a mole removed from her foot!! He thought it was vanity!! I seriously think some of them are in the wrong profession!!

[supersuezy24]

thetruthhurts, you should see one of the well known hospitals in Dublin!! It's like a war zone!! 2 years ago my dad fell and broke his collarbone and while we were waiting for him, More prisoners were in the a&e waiting area, there were junkies spewing up on the floor and then more prisoners arrived and where cuffed to chairs (there is a prison across the road from this hospital)..I f only sme hospitals were like Holby City or Casualty haha