Now, there was no need for that...Tell us about the times when an already difficult situation has been made worse for no good reason. Pollollups writes, "As if being given a muscle relaxant and trapped in an MRI tube wasn't bad enough: whilst thus immobilised, they played me Dido."
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jun 2005, 7:46)
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Hospital "emergencies" continued...Have to agree with te_nosce_ipsum about the whingers with non life threatening complaints who think that by going to Accident & Emergency means they need to be treated immediately.
Here’s an example of “Now, there was need for that…” from a paramedics' perspective.
I bought to hospital a three day old child, who whilst being breastfed went into respiratory arrest (and soon after, cardiac arrest). Whilst performing CPR at the same time as telling the nurse and doctor the patients details we are approached by an irate patient complaining that he still hasn’t had his bloodied face sewn up. (He was assaulted – can’t imagine why anyone would do that to him…)
The nurse tells him “The child isn’t breathing, has no pulse and may die. Now go away.” It makes no difference to him and he complains that “I was here before that bloody kid.” He persists with his whinging until a rather large bikie tells him that he will happily render him to the same status of the infant if he doesn’t fuck off.
He later lodges a complaint to the Health Minister about the waiting time and after an investigation at the hospital he received a written apology from the minister. FFS…
(By the way, the child did not recover.)
The above example is not uncommon and the bottom line is that if you are physically able to complain about your wait at A&E, then you may not actually need to be there. And as bad as your genuine pain may be, if you can feel pain then you are doing a lot better than some patients. Give attitude and piss the nurses off and you can guarantee a longer wait also...
(, Sun 19 Jun 2005, 3:16, Reply)
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