Pictured as he waited to die: Patient subjected to 6-hour delay in A&E - dies in agony.oops, sorry?

 

1. So apparently the only VISUAL signs that you are in medical distress and need to be treated immediately are valid in the A&E wards of British hospitals.  Pathetic.

   > ‘I was with Stewart when the GP called the hospital. He typed us a letter
   > and told us to go to A&E and hand this letter over and that Stewart should
   > be given a bed and treated immediately.
   >
   > ‘But when we got to A&E it was was full to bursting. I walked to the front
   > with the letter and told them what the GP had said, but I was just told to
   > go to the back of the queue.’

   At which point, she should have immediately called her GP and told him their situation, and to request that he drive to the hospital and perform the admission himself, or fight directly with the doctors on staff to get his patient the treatment he so desperately needed.

   When you suspect your life, or a family member’s life is in danger, do not meekly do as you’re fucking told by some god damned bureaucrat in the hospital’s administration.  Push, push harder, push to the point (and beyond) that they threaten to have you arrested if need be.

   The meek may inherit the earth, unfortunately it’s a plot of earth 6 feet under the grass.

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       12/29/2008  at  04:19 PM  

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