All this slagging of the Royal Free in London is pretty much unwarranted, it's got some of the best run wards that I've seen

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 26 May 2011, 10:57, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Wait, what? Rory is that you?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 May 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Yer, I'm on various hospital wards and mental health units throughout the week, I see shit goin down man

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:00, Reply)

It was the lack of vitriol that threw me!
Are you a head or leg mental? Or are you working?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:02, Reply)

I'm there for work reasons thank you very much.
I get to see b3tans in their natural environment
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:03, Reply)

Oh, they have an obesity ward at the mental asylum do they?
Or Asda as it's otherwise known
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

I've not ever been there,
but yeah generally none of this is useful, it fucks with staff moral. It's like publishing disciplinarys on a work noticeboard.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)

Everyone knows where the shit hospitals / wards are, they're not exactly hard to track down.
Leave the Royal Free alone faceless bureaucrats !!!
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

Yeah MK general for one
Stafford, I could go on.

That said I think even decent hospitals need some serious scruitiny, especially with the out of hours care. It's expensive to staff it so they're generally massivley understaffed and under supervised.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:09, Reply)

understaffed?
Not for long.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:19, Reply)

What has annoyed me
has been the rise in using members of the public who have had a bad experience to act as a mouthpiece in support of some cause, for which they have zero experience and have done zero research, but the people with experience can't criticise them, because that would be seen as attacking a grieving person.

For example, the women on Today this morning who's mother died and appeared to have had some shitty treatment. Also, that woman that got raped and talked to Ken Clark on the radio (I saw her on TV and honestly, I don't know why anyone would bother) and finally, the two that fuck me off the most, the mother of James Bulger and the mother of that girl that Ian Huntley murdered.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

Rape lady was back in the paper saying that having had a chat with Ken she understands his view point
So basically what she did misunderstand something, fly off the handle cause a media storm and threaten someone's career.., before back tracking, brilliant.*

*I couldn't give a shit about KCs career, this is just making a point
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)

Yes, I rather enjoyed that.
Having had the same argument with a number of people that Ken never actually said that Date Rape was easier (although I heard if you live in Milton Keynes its a piece of piss).
(Bazongaloid, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)

I liked that her change in view seemed to essentially be
"Well they're going to bypass the police and the courts and all that and just lock them up straight away so I guess a shorter sentence for the ones that might be innocent seems fair".
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:27, Reply)

I think there's a point of talking to someone who's been raped and now is an anti rape campaigner for example.
but they should be based on their experience and knowledge of the subject not that they were a victim that they should be given a voice. I think people who've been a victim of a crime/neglegence shouldn't be rolled out in front of the cameras straight away.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)

Yes, that's exactly my point
if you have an anti-rape campaigner, then they are relevant, but just talking to someone because they have experienced whatever it is you're talking about is not relevant. It's the equivalent of running a story on bowel cancer and then interviewing someone with a bowel.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:14, Reply)

I've probably spent more time in a patient-capacity than anyone else here.
And I've always said they have about 20% nurses who are cruel and see patients as 'work', and give attitude if you ask them to do _anything_. Then there are about 30% who might as well be working on a factory floor with all the emotion/kindness they give. And then the rest I would marry in an absolute instant.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:46, Reply)

A few times I've been in a bed actually screaming out for help, and had a nurse look at me, do a tut, and then walk on.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 26 May 2011, 11:47, Reply)