Originally posted by Dowding
Explain, please. Not very specific. You hate the staff, the system, the food... all three?
The staff are nice. The system sucks, there are too few nurses to patients, the wards are dirty and over crowded, the doctors have too many patients to see and it is all a disorganised mess. Oh and i was nil by mouth for a good 3 or 4 days (so i cant really comment on the food - but what i did have was barely edible.) while they ****ed about delaying my operation, which nearly killed me (would have killed me they found out later - i changed to private ward, had operation same day, if they had left it one more day theres a good chance i would have died).
I got sent in with appendicitis (doctor sent covering note), they left it for 3 weeks, told my family it was all kinds of crap including liver trouble, cancer, gall stones, gastroentiritis + many more i cant remember. While all the poison from my appendix was leaking into my body, after the 3 weeks they decided to do an endoscope? (small camera in belly button) to see what was wrong, once they did that they finally realised it was my appendix, but by this time my gut was full of poison and they had to cut me open, take it all out and clean it.
Went into hospital weighing about 11 stone, came out under 8 stone (mostly due to all the un-necessary nil by mouth time. i was 18 years old at time, 6 feet tall).
At one point they sent me to another local hospital to get an MRI? scan. They paid a taxi to take me there, wait outside while i had the scan, then take me back to the original hospital. This cost about £60 or so and one week after the scan the ****ers had lost the results.
That is why i hate the NHS, it is nothing better than a last resort for those that cannot afford better.