Hospital Horror
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:32 am
This story caught my eye and struck a chord, as earlier this evening an emotionally drained pal relayed to me a broadly similar tale of hospital horror.
My pal had recently been summoned to hospital for a range of tests and treatment for his dickie ticker, necessitating two or three days stay. However, he was ill prepared for appalling ?third world? conditions on the ward he was assigned to and the ?couldn?t care less? attitude of the staff. He said the ward was filthy and most of his fellow patients seemed to be wretched, pitiable, old women who were wizened and dying, yet had few if any visitors. The nurses were incompetent, and of the few that spoke English he deduced that they couldn?t give a toss. Then, after the evening?s visitors had gone home he began to feel the weight of these circumstances pressing on him like a thousand soiled bedpans. He felt like he had entered the netherworld of Dante and Bosch. Dickie ticker or not he could bare it no more. He leapt from his bed, grabbed his clobber, broke through the ?locked down? ward door and sprinted down to reception where he hailed a cab to take him home.
This follows on from what I was saying about care for the elderly the other day. These are not isolated instances, more and more people are relating similar tales. People understandably don?t want to confront issues like these and deal with them, as it reminds them of their own mortality. They wish they would just go away. But I suggest you should grapple with these issues, because as sure as night follows day, sooner or later, it will be either you or a loved one laying in one of those hospital beds.
So where have all the Brown billions gone? Why are the 100K a year public sector fuckers not recruiting people of the requisite caliber? Why are they not keeping the wards clean? Why are many nurses nowadays seemingly indifferent to their patients? Why isn?t matron or sister laying down the law to the gum chewing Shazz ?n? Trace orderlies? Is it the case that it?s almost impossible to sack incompetent nurses nowadays (or anybody else for that matter)?
Officer Dibble
Officius Dibblus est amplus amor deus
My pal had recently been summoned to hospital for a range of tests and treatment for his dickie ticker, necessitating two or three days stay. However, he was ill prepared for appalling ?third world? conditions on the ward he was assigned to and the ?couldn?t care less? attitude of the staff. He said the ward was filthy and most of his fellow patients seemed to be wretched, pitiable, old women who were wizened and dying, yet had few if any visitors. The nurses were incompetent, and of the few that spoke English he deduced that they couldn?t give a toss. Then, after the evening?s visitors had gone home he began to feel the weight of these circumstances pressing on him like a thousand soiled bedpans. He felt like he had entered the netherworld of Dante and Bosch. Dickie ticker or not he could bare it no more. He leapt from his bed, grabbed his clobber, broke through the ?locked down? ward door and sprinted down to reception where he hailed a cab to take him home.
This follows on from what I was saying about care for the elderly the other day. These are not isolated instances, more and more people are relating similar tales. People understandably don?t want to confront issues like these and deal with them, as it reminds them of their own mortality. They wish they would just go away. But I suggest you should grapple with these issues, because as sure as night follows day, sooner or later, it will be either you or a loved one laying in one of those hospital beds.
So where have all the Brown billions gone? Why are the 100K a year public sector fuckers not recruiting people of the requisite caliber? Why are they not keeping the wards clean? Why are many nurses nowadays seemingly indifferent to their patients? Why isn?t matron or sister laying down the law to the gum chewing Shazz ?n? Trace orderlies? Is it the case that it?s almost impossible to sack incompetent nurses nowadays (or anybody else for that matter)?
Officer Dibble
Officius Dibblus est amplus amor deus