I was in A&E there in 2000.

Passed out from not having oxygen producing in my body. (Was a type of anaemia that they never figured out what caused it..).Was lying on a trolly in a section and was coming in and out. Woke up briefly to find this really old woman dressed in a white gown next to me holding my hand and I screamed the hospital down as I thought she was a ghost and I was dead.
Turns out I nearly gave her a heart attack as she was a patient in the next bed and was there in her hospital gown trying to be nice and help me.

Was in hospital 2 weeks and had 12 units of blood.
The things I saw were not good regarding the care of some of the older patients on the ward 🙁
Very sad.
Now some of my best mates are nurses and I know how hard they work and just how fucked up the system can be that they try to work with….. But where I was…. there was no dignity.

@kiwifruit 442705 wrote:

there was no dignity.

This is one thing I have also experienced in general hops,personally having some err…. intimate investigations and doors being opened whilst undressed (in a private hosp on the nhs) or being treated like a piece of meat,

however each of my two experiences were with doctors…..

I think the nurses try very very hard but just the set ups of wards – the lack or staff and the pressure they are under is incrediable –

my aunt (who most people on here know has dementia) and she was on a general ward – and was being treated for her ‘general’ medical stuff but was left alone (when we wernt with her) and is totally unaware of her surroundings – her name – who people are etc and so is incredibilily difficult to manage on that sort of ward –

so we have to take this in to account – esp as nurses are either mental health or general trained – so a lot of general nurse dont have a clue when it comes to this sort of thing apart from prob 2 – 4 weeks training……. and in an ideal world they would pay for a psych nurse to do special obs but this just isnt in their budget……