Okay, I know NHS workers don't get exactly paid football players' wages but we were in Homerton Hospital, East London, this morning with a suspected broken rib and there must have been about six other patients in the place. There was a middle-aged lady who'd been beaten up by her pimp and was giving a big crack-addled speech about what happenened to her in a wailing broken English / Albanian drawl. Her face looked like somebody had battered it with a hot iron.
Anyhoo...it took about two hours for me and my wife to get any pain killers for her suspected broken rib. She was crying in agony but the nurses were like: “Whatevs! We’re busy here.”
Excuse me? There were about 10-15 staff on duty at the time and they were all just hanging out on the main decks and gossiping about their favourite TV shows.
I know, working at an Accident & Emergency ward is no fun and in the past I’ve had some five star treatment. But while my partner was screaming in pain, the main desk of nurses (no shit) were gathered around DRINKING CHAMPAGNE and checking out the wedding album of one of their colleagues.
While they were chortling, joking and quaffing away the booze from their plastic cups there was a pregnant Nigerian woman in the bed across from us who had six broken ribs so it made our sitch seem not so Gnarling Black Label. Still though, drinking champagne at the A&E ward seems a little rich no?
Yeah I was in hospital two weeks ago with a smashed arm, they were great. Jaded as hell but great.
Posted by: hul'es | 16/04/2006 at 02:36
Nurses get beaten up here.
Posted by: daniel | 16/04/2006 at 03:50
i spent a month in their intensive mental care section and i was aloud outside into the garden three times in this period, because they didn't have the staff to accompany me. nice to know this is probably because they were in a&e getting pissed up on krug
Posted by: nutcase | 16/04/2006 at 19:06
that country has gone to the dogs. I'm in the process of migrating to Australia.
Posted by: mark | 17/04/2006 at 15:51
Oh sod off. I work as a receptionist in a south London A&E. In the last week I have been punched in the face twice by people with minor stab wounds and a man in a wheelchair threatened me with a stanley knife. I have had a 21 year old man call himself an ambulance for cold sores and on ONE shift I had 24 patients check themselves in because they had a cold. A lot of patients these days make me sick, they're SO naive about they're health and think that from the moment they walk in the door to A&E that they are no longer responsible for themselves AT ALL. I have stabbing victims come in, shouting at everyone, screeching down their mobile phones that they are going to kill the guy that did it to them but start crying like a baby and hurling abuse and threats of violence at the nurse that's trying to get a needle in them for a blood sample. On top of all this I have to put up with patients constantly badgering me as to why I'm not 'doing' anything useful that they can see. Like they want a receptionist tending to their wounds/cold/shampoo bottle up the bum. Nurses waiting for results or using a computer are also contantly harrassed by patients telling them to pull their finger out and do something.
You patients make me sick. Ever occour to you that A&E is also a WORKPLACE and workplace type things might happen there? Like someone using 10 mins of a 12 and a half hour shift to show her mates her wedding pics?
You all walk in determined ot hate us and you leave with us hating you.
Posted by: sallyslackarse | 18/04/2006 at 13:52
a round of applause for Sally Alack Arse please!!!
i'm being serious.. RESPECT..
Posted by: | 18/04/2006 at 15:15
Oh I'm just sore because I've been on night shifts all easter...
Posted by: sallyslackarse | 19/04/2006 at 09:38
oh shut the fuck up sally. first off no one made you become a nurse, so shut the fuck up or quit. secondly treating all patients like bums just beacuse a few are twats sounds like some childish shit to me. so either quit your job or get me an iv and shut it.
Posted by: buffalo | 21/04/2006 at 00:13
Read the first line mate I'm a receptionist. And secondly I don't treat anyone like a bum, I take pride in my work however trivial my role may seem to you.
I was perhaps a little aggressive in my style but I did take exception to the fact that the person who posted the article didn't seem to twig that A&E staff, though many are highly dedicated, might take a few mins out of their day to celebrate a wedding on the ward. Don't expect nun-like devotion from nurses, they are just doing their job.
Posted by: sallyslackarse | 21/04/2006 at 12:10
What a pussy the poster is. You had to wait 2 hours? Poor fucking baby. IN Canada you often wait 12 hours for service. And that's with a broken nose that is setting as you wait.
Broken rib? There's nothing you can do about a broken rib you homo. Just let her wait it out. You can get painkillers at any pharmacy. She's going to be in pain for the next 3 months so a 2 hour wait is not a big deal. What a baby.
Posted by: Bobby Sands | 21/04/2006 at 17:55
Lets lay this fucker to rest. I'm a doctor and I've worked in all the hosptals in east London. There is nothing in this world more annoying than patients. Jesus Christ! why don't you just fuck off! Really just naff off. The next time you're sick (I don't care how serious it is) don't come to the fucking hospital. You people ruin my days, I just want to hang out and chat shit with my buds. Do you really think doctors can help you? Well I'll tell you for a fact, we don't do shit. If people get better, they tend to get better by themselves. And if you must must must come into hospital, do not fucking moan about anything. If a doctor is attending to you, be glad that at least someone is attending to your wretched existence. And once we're done giving you whatever useless drug, fuck the fuck off and never come back.
Posted by: dr dre | 23/04/2006 at 02:06
you're either a liar or a total cunt.
Posted by: Alex Hicks | 23/04/2006 at 11:48
Okay so everyone has a point except maybe Dr.Dre but either or, patients are twats and so are doctors. We're all just idiots looking to better a retirement, get laid and have a good time. Two hours is pretty lame though, I'm canadian and seriously 12 hours. A friend of mine Over dosed on mushrooms and was unconsious for 3 before they even asked what was wrong. Oh and Champagne, don't you get fired for that shit while on the job.
anywho
Posted by: PaulBearer | 24/04/2006 at 22:45
XD Haha, good to see some resonance. I went to the hospital with my friend for his twisted ankle (from the night before) and waited for A WHOLE DAY, from 11am to like 4pm, (and I woke up at 10 to drive him there) before a newbie doctor looked at him. I swear there was like 100 people who went in before us, we even had lunch there -_-'' we were told its just a tandon and not high priority. There was ONE computer in the whole reception area and a huge que of people in white gowns waiting to use it. My friend kept whining -_-'' and frankly I'm probably more annoyed than anyone else.
Posted by: Melinda Mao | 27/04/2006 at 11:56
I call bullshit on this claim:
"In Canada you often wait 12 hours"
and this one
"A friend of mine Over dosed on mushrooms and was unconsious for 3 before they even asked what was wrong"
BULLSHIT.
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