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Point taken on that one...
I wasn't disagreeing with your point about services and a good job though
I found this as well. Had to wait from a Thursday evening to Friday afternoon for a small operation, all that time I had to go without anything to eat or drink.:(
:yes:
I just get evil if you're not!
What made it worse was that I was ina ward on my own and the ladies would come around asking me if I wanted some breakfast or lunch.:yeees: And they said 'oh you could go home, but you can't.':grump:
aka it was overbooked by the surgeon...
aka "I can't be arsed to nip down to the canteen where they have meals available for this kind of scenario
aka "Oh shit, we've got a complainer here"
I now have something along the lines of 'can be a stroppy cow' on my notes apparently, which isn't necessarily a bad thing!
Yeah you can because it's entirely predictable, as I once proved to a few disbelieving surgeons. They also should look at the type of case coming in because there are other ways of treating them which don't leave the poor bugger sitting on a ward, starved, waiting for surgery.
Yours was such a low priority that they could, possibly (not knowing all the details) have sent you home/fed you and done the op on an elective list on the Monday.
It won't be that obvious, you have access to your notes now
Nurse came over and saw me, got all flustered and took them away pronto.
I still maintain that I should have gone home and come back as an elective on Monday, but apparently the lists that week were full so I would have gone on the emergency list on the Monday instead. I did slightly pity the surgeon I laid into (I was hungry and scared, I accept little responsibilty for what I said) because I was exactly the same place on the list as he had said I would be, but the previous 2 didn't quite go to plan.
They were doing their utmost to get mine done asap so I had the best chance of getting back to uni.
Although there is the other angle, ' it won't be that obvious, it'll be in a medics handwriting'
but as my mum's a dentist I learnt to read that a long time ago!
Takes all the fun out of writing in notes these days
Taken from a recent http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/11
(which to be fair shows that 99.9% of ambulance work is pretty efficient and much of that which isn't is due to the great British public, rather than the NHS