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neninja - I too have had good experiences (see way back at the beginning of the thread ^^^^^ ) - mum's lung cancer operation three months ago and my newborn twins in SCBU two years ago.
Similarly I have had bad experiences (around Christmas we had hell on getting a proper diagnosis of one of our daughters' chest infection even though her sister had just come out of hospital after two nights in with pneumonia).
And I still have a thought in the back of my head that they could have done more for my dad two years ago - expected home on the Saturday after recovering from a bout of pneumonia then suddenly died on the Friday morning. To this day I think he just died in his sleep because the mask had come off and he had already been taken off all monitoring equipment so they just found him dead at breakfast. I had considered trying to find out but as a family we decided it wasn't worth finding out as it won't bring him back.
Agreed - as I said I've been lucky to mainly just see the good side.
I do however have a GP at our practise who I now refuse to see as he has misdiagnosed me so many times. There are sadly always going to be a few people working in the NHS who aren't up to the job. Fortunately they are in the minority.
My Grandad (sadly now passed) had a near miss in Coventry - the hospital pharmacist mis-labelled some drugs dosage to 4 times the safe limit and they were basically poisoning him. Fortunately a doctor realised what was happening when his condition deteriorated sharply.
I had an excellent experience with the A&E in Manchester last week after I crashed my bike - I was seen to almost immediately and looked after good and proper.
Some of the people in the waiting room were complete morons, there was a drunk bloke stumbling around falling on people and a lad with a swollen ankle was asking the doctor for temazepam. He'd also mysteriously lost the crutches he had been given. And this is all on a Friday morning at half nine, God knows what it is like at three in the morning on a Saturday night.
I think people who work in the NHS are doing a thankless task and have nothing but the utmost respect for them.
he has misdiagnosed me so many times
On a similar note, my dad used to see the same GP all the time (for almost all of his adult life). On one occasion the GP prescribed something and my dad took the prescription to his normal chemist. The chemist refused to prescribe the medication because he knew what other meds dad was on and that the combination could have killed him.
How on earth the GP could not have realised that I will never know.