The Promise

Doc

I went to the dentist the other day and he made the promise all doctors/ nurses/ dentists make : “THIS WON'T HURT A BIT”.

Like hell it didn’t!!!

So thinking about it, nearly every time they say this, it dose hurt (and usually more then just a bit!)

Then you get the ones who say “this may sting a little” or “may just hurt for a minute” then you know you’re in for it.

My point is they never say “this will hurt but its good for you may I do it?”
They just start drilling ect, and what happens if you punch them out? You get in trouble! I mean what is the world coming to? :rolleyes:

The Gopher

Its the irish for you-they think you wont want it if you know of the bad side and therefore dont wanna lose cash and dont tell you.Like my local takeaway-if i ask for a cheeseburger with ketchup and onions if they have no cheese/sauce/onions theyll only tell me when my food is cooked,leaving me stuck without my vital ingredient.Bastards

TacT

Yes, I remember clearly sitting in St. Vincents emergency ward aged 15 after having attempted ludicrous tricks on my skateboard and having twisted and snapped the fragile bones in my left ankle.
Never mind the fact I waited 8hrs for any Painkiller, instead I got a doctor who had seen my x-ray, then came over to me, felt my leg a bit while I was screaming "argh don't touch it, it's so sore" (or something similar to that tune) when he said "ok this might hurt a bit."
So away he goes and crunches the bones in my ankle back into what his idea of place was, sending me into a fit of screaming, punching madness that nearly made me want to get up on both legs regardless of the pain, look at him and say "this might hurt a bit" then punch him right on the nose and see how he measures pain when it's being inflicted upon him!

While I'm on a good old rant I'd like to point out that he failed to replace the bones in my leg and said to come back a week later to make sure it had begun to heal properly.
Upon my return I was told that it had not started healing at all and that my fibula was out of place and would need surgery. Upon asking why they couldn't have told me this last week I was greeted with an awkward silence then a "hmm well you see it's complicated er, nurse take him up to the ward", so I was left to their mercy for a week.

I could not believe how incompetent and ruthless the nurses were with me in there, they had a wonderful trainee nurse come remove my stitches when the time was right too, instead of slipping the curved blade under each stitch and gently pulling out while cutting the stitch, she places the blade under each stitch and proceeded to yank each one like a knot in your shoelace which in turn tightened up the flesh around my ankle while she proceeded to torture me :mad:

Much unlike the treatment I received in the NHS in northampton while on holidays and going through much the same thing on the other ankle I received painkillers immediately. They took an x-ray had a look at it and said "We can try and replace the bones that are out of place but we may well be wasting our time so unfortunately we are going to have to perform surgery to get things right."
After my previous experience I looked at him and a smile came over my face and I was only too happy to be carted off to the ward and taken care of.

They told me that the stitches would have to be removed a short while after I was fit to go home. I became a bit worried thinking back to my previous experience with them so I asked them if I could get the appropriate blade to remove the stitches because I would be a) waiting a ridiculous amount of time to have them removed and b) They'd probably send another trainee nurse to torture me, the doc gave me a wee grin and handed me the disposable blade and sent me on my way.
I removed the stitches myself painlessly and in the comfort of my own home without having to cue for 4 odd hours in the outpatients department only to be greeted by an incompetent nurse ready to abuse me like a scientist would a guinea pig for their latest range of beauty products.
This was at a time when the NHS was under extreme pressures and had massive difficulties supplying beds and they still managed to do a better job than our Oirish equivalent.
Yeah Ireland is SO on par with the rest of Europe :rolleyes: like we're up there and stuff.

In the words of all the most pathetic Oirish commercials I've heard "Our hospitals have come a long way, but we've still got a long way to go!" What absolute tripe!

Mercury_Tilt

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