One time I was in a small isolated village clinic with a horrible migraine that was in its third day. There was no hospital and the doctor only came for a few days a month. I had been waiting for a couple of hours and felt miserable and I could hear a man moaning. The nurse came in full of apology for the long wait. She proceeded to tell me the doctor was held up because a logger had been brought in having been impaled in a tree! I learned later that the branch was still in the logger when they brought him in! It was a lesson to me that no matter how bad you feel there is always someone who has it worse than you. Perspective is a wonderful thing!
I agree completely. I have had a rare neurological disease for my entire life. When it was finally diagnosed, I was in my mid to late 30s and was actually dying. The only thing I could do at the time was move my hands and talk. So I decided to be the lead person for our Church prayer chain. On days when I thought I could cope not a minute longer, someone would call needing prayer who was far worse than me. Doing that small job was the best thing that I ever did. That was in 1995. It’s 2024 now, despite the constant company of this disease I lead a fairly normal life. Learning someone was far worse than I was one of the best lessons in my life. Y’all have a truly blessed day!
Thats liz a consultant doctor who is in charge of the A&E and she sees everyone on the one day a week she works (yes I've watched all of these - probably far too many!!). She is wonderful. Tough but so kind
Im an utter fan of Liz the consultant (blonde doctor) who only works once a week and has 4 young children. She is meticulously thorough but most importantly so warm and caring. I love her.
I never thought I could feel so sad about someone who's a complete stranger to me...Yet I feel like I've known her....Mrs.Eilleen such a sweet and lovely lady...I think that she made a lovely wife, mother and grandmother...RIP Eilleen...❤
I worked in vascular surgery and a 5 millimetre or smaller abdominal aortic aneurysm would be booked anywhere in the next 4 weeks, 7 millimetre and over would be asap. Anything in between would vary. A great friend of mine lived on another island and was in Vancouver supporting his wife who had cancer. While there they found a AAA. They told him he needed surgery and they booked it. But he cancelled it so he could stay with his wife. I wish he'd have talked to me as he died in bed two days after he should have had surgery. A month later his wife died. I still can't believe they're both gone. AAA's are not something you have the luxury of thinking about for long. Once it bursts you are actively dying and even with medical intervention the chances of surviving are almost nil. You just bleed out too fast.
My mother just had surgery for a 7mm AAA, they also had to open her up and clear out her legs arteries, ended up with a much bigger incision, it's scary to here that a loved one has one cause it could be any moment.
My mother just had an aortic aneurysm about the same size as this gentleman, we say covid saved her life cause if it wasn't because of covid disorienting her to fall and me needing to call for help we never would have known. Unfortunately we are still dealing with the incision healing, it's been a long journey to heal because they needed to open her arteries in her legs as well causing a bigger incision.
I'm confused. you said your mother had aortic aneurysm and covid saved her life. As a RN I'm a little confused with that. Can you please explain..No disrespect just curious.. I HOPE YOUR MOM IS DOING WELL MANY BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS SENT HER WAY 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻
@@janice576 Because they took her in to the hospital for Covid ,ran tests and found out this wsy. Vs- her just being home . Sometimes You never know you have one.
Thank you to all the doc and nurses...I was also treated with so much respect when I was on holiday in London and had a pain across my chest (2019)..I walked thru a trauma room...
Well, the younger ones sure showed their class in this episode, bunch of foul mouthed babies, sickening! I have no idea why some of the content was left in, they should have been on the cutting room floor, we already know how entitled some people are! Nurses and doctors are heroes!
That was really surprising and i was caught off guard there too! But I think it's kinda funny they should keep showing that patients can be a problem too
I think it is really important in stuff like this to show all sides. It's about empathy. You never know what someone else is going through or how hard they've been pushed by life, so all you can do is be as kind as you can to everyone you meet.
Interesting that the couple went outside and exclaimed about the fresh air - then lit up a cigarette. 20 minutes! I waited 50 hours for surgery - lying on a trolley in the pre surgery area - 15 beds and full lights shining down. I needed surgery on my thumb as I had septicaemia. I really thought I’d lose a limb as it crept up my arm - swelling and the pus was trying to make cracks to find a way out. It was agony and I was in a fever. It required 4 surgeries I was told repeatedly - I fasted for the 3rd but they didn’t have a theatre so they relied on antibiotics for 4 weeks - 2 weeks with a PICC Line. They didn’t bother to tell me my surgery was cancelled until I asked if there had been an accident holding things up. That was 5 hours after they cancelled it. I had a special diet of hospital formula as I haven’t been able to eat for 5 years. The dietician arranged for me to get my formula but instead they gave me 5 Dixie ice creams and sometimes a full meal which really rubbed salt into the wound. I couldn’t eat it ot I’d have had a bowel obstruction. I stopped counting surgeries at 130 so hearing of a 20 minute wait is incredulous.
130 surgeries?? As an RN I've never heard such a thing. What are so the surgeries for?? Hope you feel better. You said you haven't eaten in five years but you were eating ice cream one cannot survive off of ice cream, did they put a line into your stomach to feed you properly???
I’m sad that so many elders are alone and yet their family would do anything to keep them safe. The son in law was sad that his father in law didn’t let anyone know he needed help. Single men seem to the most vulnerable.
Or in Canada right now. I'm currently in a lot of debilitating and excruciating pain but I'm not going to emergency here in Ottawa because the waiting times in hospitals, especially city hospitals are so ridiculous that it's not worth it. I'd much rather wait it out (I've been to emergency for the same symptoms multiple times before where they've done absolutely nothing to help me) in the comfort of my own bed with all of my heating pads and ice packs
I'm grateful I'm in the US. I understand UK nurses are on the verge of a strike over low wages. I'm sure the wait is long in our larger cities, but I'm in the largest city in my state and I've never had to wait for any level of care.
However, I would wager he's grateful he has free healthcare though, regardless of the wait times 😉 Healthcare and health insurance are ridiculous in the US.
@@alison4316 True.. regardless of longer wait times, he doesn't have to think about the hefty, overpriced medical bills that come afterwards. Just walks home 😁.✅
Oh, what a sweetheart Eileen was. What a beautiful soul. Death is a difficult subject to deal with. I am sure she is much happier now because she is with her husband. I lost my Mother suddenly this year. She was 83. I was so fortunate to have spent the day with her on her Birthday, which was the 17th. She passed on the 25th. I miss her so much. I speak for rhe rest and it truly changes your life. A big part of my life is missing without her. I do believe in the afterlife. She is watching over me. I know because I can smell her fragrance of Lavender which will come and go. I admire the patience and care that the health care professionals give. Without them, where would we be. They are angels in disguise, so treat them with utmost respect. ❤
My 24 yo Granddaughter is a Type 1 diabetic and was in diabetic ketoacidosis yesterday, which is life threatening. She waited 12 hours to see a Dr and was then admitted to the ICU and placed on a Insulin drip and this guy complains about 20 minutes. Shame on him. They would have laughed and him and put him the waiting room in the USA hospitals.
What Pritpal is 100% right. Hospitals aren't all doctors. Everyone, from catering to nurses to people that use hawks to keep pigeons off the roof, play their part in keeping these people alive. He doesn't have to be a doctor to make a difference, and he seems like an awfully sweet man.
@@kylieknight2365 let's see, do you have time and strength to get a painkiller when in pain? A cigarette distracts you from the pain for the while you're smoking.
That couple that were asked to leave the examination room, and they start talking about the old people and the air quality in the hospital and RSV 🤪 then they go outside and SMOKE. People are crazy
24 hours in A&E is one of my favourite programmes on TV. The staff are amazing, and it’s wonderful to see how patients deal with their problems. Blessings to all.
You know, it used to be a parent or parents abandoning their children. Now it's the other way around. I know from my own personal experience. It's incredibly sad.
My Great Uncle died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Took the hospital a week with crazy guesses of what was wrong with him. This was a VA hospital. I ended up going to the chief of staff as I was disgusted with the Dr just guessing.
Something similar happened to my grandmother in the 90's. It took the doctors several days to figure out what the problem with her health was. The doctors initially thought she had a brain bleed and dismissed whenever my grandfather was telling them that aneurysms runs in the family. Turns out his gut feeling was right, she had thoracic aortic aneurysm which ruptured leading to her death shortly before her discharge.
Surprised the GP sent his patient to the ER for an ear infection. Just because one is elderly it should not be a given that their time has come to an end. I have watched a number of these types of British reality medical shows and it appears that elderly patients 80 years of age and above receive fewer patient services.
It's possibly a bit more complicated than that, it could be the clinic didn't have the resources, time, or the gp or nurse or whatever that examined them wasn't allowed to treat it ( I've heard of that before, in particular an inner ear infection)
What’s sad is there aren’t that many years between the older and younger generations and the young are so ungrateful and whiny and disrespectful. Imagine the generation below them?!?!?!?!
My mother had a AAA, but a stent was a no-go, and so was surgery because she also had COPD. They said she had two years, she lived 2 1/2 years, out of sheer cussedness!
A friend of my daughter has a AAA last year and died at the age of 32. He was complaining of chest pain, went to the ER. They did a minimal exam and discharged him. He went to the bathroom before leaving, there was a loud thump, they had to break down the door and found him dead inside because the AAA ruptured. A simple x-ray would have saved his life.
I just spent the summer in the hospital and then in rehab trying to walk. I wish the er and hospital could have been as compassionate as they are at King's. I have never in my life been treated as badly as I was in the er and the hospital.
I know it's hard to wait when you are in pain but patients are seen by how serious the injury is. If you are sitting & whining then just realize that you may be in a very serious accident some day & you will probably hear someone complaining about you.
Come to the US and see how long you wait in the ER. I had a friend who’s husband was in the waiting room for 2 days before the admitted him. So I thing 15 minutes is nothing.
It always bothers me when family are telling their loved ones bye and don’t say… I love you 😞. They always seem to mumble about and look uncomfortable. Always say I love u ❤️
@RW and then they get release from the hospital where they've had 2-6 patients to one nurse to ltc, where there's 1 nurse for 24-30 people, their call light doesn't get answered in a minutes time and they fill out a grievance....healthcare is not the Hilton, we aren't your servants or maids, we're educated/trained and don't get paid enough for what we get dealt with
HOW come GP not know wat an ear infection looks like ..... must hav looked needed a second opinion i s'pose too busy pass it on to the NHS GR8 JOB YOU GUYS DO AMAZING THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ......
The men and women that were born in the 1920's, 30's and 40's never complain. They just get on with it. Now days you see young people can't even tolerate being called the wrong pronoun without having a conniption fit, crying and screaming in the streets. They are so weak.
My Dad told me he and his buddies used a type of 10W40 on their toes and feet when they fought in Vietnam. He said all their feet were so messed up from staying wet all the time and having boots on 😖
……in WWI it was called ‘trench foot’. During WWII those fighting in tropical countries’ got it. My f-i-l fought in New Guinea, & when he came home, his feet were like ‘two pieces’ of raw meat’, apparently………
The audacity to, not ask but demand, service after only 20 min. Real emergencies and life threatening people are top priority. One time I had to wait 19 hours. I got a quiet room and was able to stop crying. I had a huge abscess in my throat. They did a I and D and antibiotics after a total 21 hours there alone! I don't complain but I can have a meltdown fast and that did it. I was still polite and kind! They were great just short staffed.
How do you think these health care professionals feel. They are helping and treating us when we are ill. Then one day, one of their co-workers will be taking care of them, and it goes on and on. These words and opinions are my own. I am getting older and thinking of my past more so than my future now. The future doesn't matter. I take each day, one day at a time. I am relieved and happy to wake in tne morning. It isn't my time yet. I just live for today. I look out of my window andI see just how beautiful the trees appear, the sky so blue and the flowers in bloom with their brilliant colors. The breeze blowing the leaves. I am paying more attention to the details of what is before us to see. Nothing else really matters. You become in tune with nature., the air , the colors. I can go on and on. I am going to stop right here. I am One as we all are. I will age gracefully and accept what is to come, and say, I know what my purpose in life was, I have learned from my mistakes. Maybe I will get it right in my next life. I have no regrets living this one. ❤
Awe im saddened about Ellen, She was a Gem. However, Her breathing was hard and i could tell she wasnt doing very well. The fall, msy jave hurt her..but she she at least wasnt home alone when she passed. We had a Landlord who is 96 and still going and had fallen twice. Very strong ladies in this world.
The one time i actually went through the ER was when i was dying due to septicemia after a pelvic injury when i was still dancing. Had i arrived any later i would have died. Being in America i didnt want to go to the hospital due to the absolutely insane costs. It makes me wonder if i was in Europe if i wouldve cone sooner
Few things irritate me more than people in hospital behaving as if they are so important that their non-life threatening injury demands examination ahead of those who are in with illness or injury that is potentially life threatening...and were there before the complainers walked in. I have advanced lung disease and even I don't complain when I'm in emergency waiting for meds to work and the staff is obviously busy. I am no more important than the next. We're all brothers and sisters and need to remember that
So sad that people bring minor complaints in to emergency…..for example the little boy that kicked a chair because of anger issues with a game. He can walk therefore nothing serious enough to require a visit to emergency. Then there is the old woman with a tummy ache, she too could visit her doctor. Times have changed and the hospitals are crammed full and your emergency is not that to anyone else. Check with triage to see how long the wait is, if you can last until you see a doctor then do that. There are walk-in clinics as well if you don’t have a regular doctor.
Amanda - a nursing assistant has a heart of gold. Proving not everyone has to have a soaring IQ in order to work in ER. A sweetheart ...who put my patients at ease. I love them MD
Well said: Priorities is not about the money money money and the rush rush rush it’s about the people you love one minute they can be there and the next minute they can be gone
Its very hard for hospital staff. A patient can click the help button which some sees just go off but they complain " its been 20 minutes and no one came" EVEN though , perhaps, A nurse saw it just go on, that patient complains and mgmt gives the nurse a warning!!! Now days, the patient is always right...and they know it!
Which makes me one in a million I guess! I've been in the hospital many times from having a defibrillator implanted to a triple bypass. Nurses always told me they loved me because I was never a bother. But when something needed to be done or if I needed something like pain meds, I got immediate attention. Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease!
In the USA, we only go to the emergency room for critical care, plus we pay for that care, before we get any treatment... if you cause a ruckus or complain loudly, rudely, abusively😢 and repeatedly, the hospital security walks you out, and if you persist, you can be arrested. For all non life threatening events you go to your primary care doctor or an urgent care clinic. However, you pay for your service first before you get care. If you have health care insurance you will only be treated for what your insurance covers... any extras comes out of your😮 pocket... 😊 as for ambulances, you pay first, before you are transported... 😊
