I was under the impression asthma attacks were high priority. Surely anyone would realise that a patient with major breathing difficulties should be seen as soon as?

I've been very fortunate with my trips to A+E. The receptionists are fab, and the number of trips I've made has become something of a joke. I've achieved frequent flier status...

I keep thinking I should prepare a card with my details, so if I'm ever at the "cannot talk" stage, I can just hand that over so they don't have to talk to me.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Fri 12 Mar 2010, 12:38, 1 reply)

Yeah
Every other time I've been to A&E with my asthma it's been high priority but that's been in Ireland. It might just be that the receptionist on that night was just completely lacking in anything resembling a clue. I'm hoping that she was a temp and had been trained in checking people in but just wasn't paying attention when they got to the bit about people who can't breath should be seen before the people who didn't really have anything wrong with them. I did just get the impression that they thought that anyone who had made it to A&E without the aid of an ambulance probably wasn't all that sick and should be seen by the triage nurse on a first come, first served basis. I was bad enough to deserve an ambulance but since I knew it would be difficult for an ambulance to find me and I was right next to a main road full of taxis I just went and got a taxi since I figured I'd get to the hospital in a taxi before an ambulance would manage to find me.
(mmm....beer, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 22:10, closed)