Such dreadful stories of incompetence and just plain 'shoddyness'. It makes you despair. Two and a half weeks in hospital for a broken leg is beyond a joke @KT53. I would be inclined to threaten to discharge myself - they hate that and it sometimes does the job. They can't stop your wife from leaving.
Whilst some of your stories are shocking, is it really any different than bad plumbers, car mechanics etc etc? Why do we expect hospitals to be any different? 50% of doctors are below average, same as any profession.
I made lots of mistakes during my career, some I am sure due to carelessness. Maybe some of these were when I had been working solidly for 15 hours, without food, or sometimes the never ending increase in workload, and the time spent dealing with increasing complaints, of which the vast majority were without merit.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Have you ever heard Garrison Keillor’s ‘Tales from Lake Wobegon’, @punkdoc?He used to sign off with the words “ … Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
Whilst some of your stories are shocking, is it really any different than bad plumbers, car mechanics etc etc? Why do we expect hospitals to be any different? 50% of doctors are below average, same as any profession.
I made lots of mistakes during my career, some I am sure due to carelessness. Maybe some of these were when I had been working solidly for 15 hours, without food, or sometimes the never ending increase in workload, and the time spent dealing with increasing complaints, of which the vast majority were without merit.
Don’t we pay NI that goes towards health care. We wouldn’t pay a weekly amount to our car mechanic or plumber and accept shoddy workmanship.
Do we pay those contributions and accept the shoddy care we get for it.
So yes, I would expect health care to be different.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
You pay for your car mechanic, when you need a job doing, and sometimes the outcome is terrible.
isn't it funny how folk never mention the countless contacts with the NHS which have gone well? From conception to the grave. I'm sick of folk complaining yet they NEVER volunteer to pay more towards it. Some have spent their lives avoiding paying tax yet still she complains
Oh dear, my recliner chair has just made an alarming 'cracking' noise, sounds like a second spring has snapped. I do hope I don't wobble sideways when I next operate the button! We haven't been able to source a replacement spring yet for the first broken spring as the chair has been discontinued.
This should be in RTBC really. My wife is home, with walker and crutches. She's more confident with the walker, understandably, but is shifting with the crutches. She's happy to use the walker without me but is less certain on crutches. As she only had two very short sessions with crutches in hospital that isn't surprising. Her confidence will build day on day.
Just glad she'd home, but half as glad as she is to be out. The final piece of farce was when I was taking stuff down to the car. I went back into her room and she said 3 people came in, looked at her and said they thought she had been discharged!
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Two and a half weeks in hospital for a broken leg is beyond a joke @KT53. I would be inclined to threaten to discharge myself - they hate that and it sometimes does the job.
They can't stop your wife from leaving.
Why do we expect hospitals to be any different?
50% of doctors are below average, same as any profession.
I made lots of mistakes during my career, some I am sure due to carelessness. Maybe some of these were when I had been working solidly for 15 hours, without food, or sometimes the never ending increase in workload, and the time spent dealing with increasing complaints, of which the vast majority were without merit.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We wouldn’t pay a weekly amount to our car mechanic or plumber and accept shoddy workmanship.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
From conception to the grave.
I'm sick of folk complaining yet they NEVER volunteer to pay more towards it.
Some have spent their lives avoiding paying tax yet still she complains
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nhs-funding-health-service_uk_63ce5d38e4b0c2b49ad6a12b
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.