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Nannylala

Time to turn the lappie off as eyes are feeling very heavy:(enjoy your evening and will say night night:A

Naebbirac

karlie88 wrote: »

The problem is Nana, that there is a significant proportion of people who are not grateful.



You are right, we're very lucky to have the NHS.

I'm just going to inform you of the cruel/sad/disappointing stuff that I sometimes see. This may be a long post and I apologise in advance.

I go to work and I see 'ungrateful' people everyday. They 'whinge' about their care, long waiting times, uncomfortable beds, not enough pillows, operation delays, hospital food, delays in scans and several hundred other things. I see doctors, staff nurses, auxiliary nurses, sisters, porters, radiographers, bank nurses, locum doctors etc. get verbally abused (myself included) and sometimes physically abused. On one occasion, my colleague was strangled by a patient's relative after they had waited over 30 minutes for a doctor to attend them (not strangled to death, but to the extent where he couldn't breathe for about 10 seconds). I found him (by chance) on a set of stairs in the hospital; he was crying his eyes out.

People do not realise that from 5pm to 8am (15 hours of the day; Monday to Friday), the hospital is severely lacking in staff. Add to this the whole of Saturday and Sunday. People think that a hospital is a 24/7 working environment and it is, to some extent. But people don't realise that departments close down and that there are 'on-call teams' when doctors are on shift.

For example, pretty much all hospitals in the UK (big or small) have about 3 doctors on-call during the evenings/nights/weekends. A&E is the only department to be fully staffed 24/7. These 3 doctors on-call typically have to look after 300 - 500 inpatients (i.e those in beds and on wards). But what people don't realise is that Mr Jones on the Cardiology ward starts to have a heart attack at 11pm. At the same time, Mrs Campbell develops signs of stroke on Ward 12. Half an hour later, a nurse bleeps you to say that Mr Stokes is becoming more short of breath and is now coughing up blood. An hour later, Margaret on Ward 32 starts to vomit blood and is developing severe abdominal pain. 2 hours before you got a bleep but didn't have time to answer it, you get re-bleeped from the same number; turns out Betty had a fall from her bed and has now fractured her femur. You then get a call from the on-call radiologist to say someone's scan results weren't reviewed earlier in the day and that the patient's results show a severe pneumonia...are they on antibiotics? Nope. We are pushed to breaking point..and then you get abuse, jokes about being late on the seen, complaints of poor service, 'I called for you 2 hours ago', being strangled...the list goes on.

Even nursing staff are stretched (and that's every single hour of every week - they have so much 'mandatory' paperwork to fill in that they haven't got time to actually look after the patients). It's such a shame to see; they're job description says it all, they need to nurse patients. However, some big shot in the managerial side of the hospital decides to introduce new paperwork which takes an hour to complete. How are they supposed to look after their patients? Administer medication? Help feed them? Respond to their pain?

Granted, mistakes happen. We are only human. Some mistakes should never happen, but they do. But has anyone ever thought, why? Could it not be frustration within? Tiredness? Stretched resources? On average, every year one doctor is killed when driving home from a long shift. Verdict? Sleeping at the wheel.

I've lost count the number of journeys I've done driving home and not remembering a single thing about the drive home; almost sleeping with my eyes open.

Sorry about the above; this was not aimed at anyone in particular. Just my viewpoint/interesting facts about the hospital environment.

Needed to get that off my chest. :mad::o:rotfl::o:mad:

There's just a growing number of people who don't appreciate a thing that the NHS offers; 1st class healthcare.

:T

Hear hear, well said karlie. See it all the time:eek::(
N x

mutley_muppet

izzy65 wrote: »

MM thank you for this, both my DH and DS have underactive thyroids, my DS is also diabetic, which is also an auto immune problem so I will have a look on this site:)

You're welcome Izzy. I hope you find the TPA website useful.
As I'm sure you know, suffering from one auto-immune condition can often mean you are more likely to sufer from another auto-immune disease. I have 3 auto-immune diseases, but I manage. There are plenty of people worse off than me! x

Arthien wrote: »

...at first I was told I had an under-active thyroid, then I was told it was back to normal, then I was told it was bad again and I should start on thyroxine. Having done some research, it seems likely that the doctor who told me I was fine was using the old levels of what is 'acceptable', rather than the new guidelines, so I should have been on medication for a lot longer than I have been.

It's very sad that people are being dismissed purely because of numbers on a lab test result, when their symptoms scream otherwise? If this is affecting your daily life then you deserve proper testing and treatment. Good luck x

jumblejack wrote: »

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Does anyone here use neem essential oil?

I bath my dogs in Neem shampoo. I love the smell, but not sure they are impressed. :rotfl:

EMMAP

Night night Nanny

Mildred1970

Happy Birthday PD :beer::beer:

Naebbirac

Happy Birthday PD. Hope you've had a lovely day.
I'm off to bed soon, as I'm off to France tomorrow morning, flight at 0625hrs:eek: and a 2ish hour drive to the airport. I'll try to keep up while I'm away, but you must promise me






































NO big glitches while I'm away, or I'll have to call on my pal VT to partake on my behalf:p;)
N x

dipdap

Just finished entering some more Dr O pizza codes.
51 codes now and still not won a gift card.
Don't know whether to :rotfl: or
I said to DH when the promo first started if I won any they'd be for Xmas shopping, think I may have expected too much!

TrulyMadly

No coupons this month:o

David.

mimi1234 wrote: »

Happy Birthday PD. Hope you had a really lovely day.

Awesome posts from QOC and KARLIE.

I think a lot of front line staff get abuse (not as scary as what Karlie's colleague got may I add) and it's not really on. Thankfully I have bandit glass in front of me when I deal with my clients. But the amount of abuse my colleagues and I get is astonishing.

I guess people think their problems are so huge that they don't give two hoots about the person who is helping them and what they might also be going through.

Agree, and everyone is expected to do more and more.
Peoples expectations are sky high as to what service they should get :eek:
Teachers as an example people think they work 8;30 till 3;30 with an hour for lunch and 13 weeks off :rotfl:
Try 7:30 till 5:30 then after tea another 2-3 hours marking and planning. Plus after school clubs and weekend catching up on all the paperwork the government demands now ticking boxes and providing proof rather than teaching the little cherubs
So if hours are counted minimum wage or somewhere near not bad for A levels, degree and teacher training and no its not me

Arthien

mutley_muppet wrote: »

You're welcome Izzy. I hope you find the TPA website useful.
As I'm sure you know, suffering from one auto-immune condition can often mean you are more likely to sufer from another auto-immune disease. I have 3 auto-immune diseases, but I manage. There are plenty of people worse off than me! x

It's very sad that people are being dismissed purely because of numbers on a lab test result, when their symptoms scream otherwise? If this is affecting your daily life then you deserve proper testing and treatment.

I think you're admirable for coping with 3 autoimmune diseases and managing to remain cheerful! Others would crack under a lot less stress than that.

It was affecting my life to the point that I would get home from 6th form or uni classes by early afternoon, then go to bed and sleep until tea time. Even now I fall asleep on the sofa by about 9 o'clock and usually need a nap for a few hours on a Sunday afternoon. I've been reading about a possible link to fluoride on the web link, which is interesting, but it doesn't seem to make any suggestions as to how to go about avoiding it.