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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble
About 4 years ago I had an accident and cut 3 tendons and a nerve in my right arm. the cut was about 3 inches long and down to the bone and a lot of blood was coming out. I was rushed to St Peters in Cherstey in an ambulance. I was made to wait for about 2 hours in a cubicle while they tried to put some motorcyclist's shoulder back into the socket in the next cubicle. Eventually, two doctors came in to see me. By this time the bleeding had stopped and the pain had subsided. They bent my arm right back to have a look, causing me extreme pain and the blood to start again. They told me it looked serious and they couldn't do anything for me, but would get me an appointment with Chelsea and Westminster. The wound was dressed and I was sent home for the night with a few painkillers. The next day I had to get the train into Waterloo and then a Tube over to chelsea and Westminster. the people there in the ward that actually operated on my arm were fantastic, but others in the hospital certainly weren't. I was sat waiting for in x-ray for an hour. They managed to start the whole thing bleeding again by moving it round while doing the x-ray and then I was sat waiting again for another hour in the same waiting room for the x-ray, with my arm bleeding and only the bandages I had come in with to stop it.
In my opinion the NHS is hit and miss. You can get a good department in a bad hospital and bad departments in good hospitals. I also don't agree that they treat all emergencies well. How many times have you heard reports of someone being sent home from hospital with some painkillers only to die at home from something obvious that the hospital shouldn't have missed.
Something needs to be done about it soon. Blair came in with big promises about how he was going to sort out crime, education, the NHS etc. All I see is a lot more money being spent for no real improvement.
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that is truly shocking , so i assume you made all the right noises as regards complaints , the only way anything will be improved is by ppl complaining about it , isnt it , i am not saying you didnt complain , bbut if you didnt , then you have potentially missed the chance to make a difference , btw , i hope your arm is ok now
