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muddydisco:
Went A+E 10:30 last night after having something in my eye for 2 days. Got seen at 4:20 am sorry can't get it out you will have to come back tomorrow to the eye clinic at 4:30 pm. So they got it out today and it's sore as anything. But the amount of time waster coming in throught the door is a joke.

Bush Tucker Man:
Sorry for your wait (on behalf of the NHS, even though I know it's a different Trust)

Sadly with what could be complex medical problems (ie; eyes) they refer to a greater specialist knowledge; the Opthalmologists.

I saw this from the other side last year, as I had a Ulcerated Cornea & was under their Consultant (admittedly our waiting times are short & I was referred by one of our Registrars)



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Yeah, tell me about it :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

TDi90:
discraceful.  :evil:

thermidorthelobster:
I'm going to make your day by telling you my A&E experience last week.

Child knocked her head after a small fall and was a bit concussed.  Took her to hospital and pulled up in the ambulance bay.  Went into A&E (this was on a Friday night) and 2 nurses and a doctor saw to her instantly - she was the only patient in the whole department at the time.  She had 3 people attending to her until she was taken for a CT scan half an hour later.  The radiologist checked her results straight away and talked them through with me.  They then put her in the children's ward for the night in a private room with a shower, fed me and my colleague (with the Disco still parked in the ambulance bay, they suggested we left it there), and found us a spare room elsewhere in the hospital.  She was monitored closely all night, fed, watered and discharged the following day.

Sounds great, doesn't it?  That's what you get in an oil-rich country with a small population and financially-savvy government.  This was Norway;  the only hospital in a 3-hour radius and on Saturday morning I walked from one end to the other without bumping into a soul.  There were empty beds everywhere and the staff were almost bored!

:twisted:

sleeplessparadise:
Well maybe if so many idiots didn't get drink and then get in a fight or even worse drive somewhere there wouldn't be such long waiting times and people in need of help through incidents would be able to be seen quicker :wink:

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