No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

One of oh surgical team came to get a sample that the nurse was supposed to have done, but didnt do. I told her the story and she lost her **** with him, better from her than me. It's an emergency department and scrolling through Facebook when you're supposed to be looking after people who are relying on you is not on

Fair play to you and her, you were lucky you met someone who gave a damn.

There's a fair culture of omerta in a lot of hospital departments, a few toxic bullies get together and ruin it for all the genuine hardworking people.

Ye're being put through the wringer at the moment, I hope ye pull pull through soon, it's a tough station.

I turned to herself during our most recent (of hundreds) of hospital visits with our 7 year old, and said:

"I absolutely fcuking hate having to be the bad cop, - the difficult awkward parent every single time"

But if I didn't, nothing would get done, - we're seven years into what should have been a surgery case day 1 with a child who was 12 hours from dying of sepsis last year...

You get tired from all the fighting, but it has to be done on the patients behalf or they'd just give you another 6 month appointment to be postponed/cancelled/different person there when you arrive.

Nobody knows anything, - reading the notes whilst asking you the same set of inane irrelevant questions as the last time. Consultant nowhere to be found. No private option for the particular ailment in this country.

Sorry, rant over.. I hate the lot of the useless btards so much at this stage..

Have witnessed this recently with my mother in hospital, not being smart here Irish or foreign nurse, have found the Irish nurses disinterested recently.

THis guy wasnt irish, reminded me of Manuel from fawlty towers. We've a super doctor, she couldn't do enough for us and she explains everything so well. I think we were very unlucky to come across this fella last night. We also had a bad experience on Saturday were the community intervention nurse was to be contactable all day Saturday. I rang 6 times no answer. She rang me Sunday morning while we were in casualty

I was visiting a relative in the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork today. Genuinely surprised at how friendly all the staff were there. I got lost a few times. Maybe it's a Cork thing.

We're for Crumlin now this year because she's now too old for the crowd in CUH to do the surgeries they should have done 5 years ago. Starting from scratch again. More fighting...

I hope your girl is OK.

It’s the level of administration, you arrive whether walk in or referred by a GP/Doc on call, you then could have to be seen up to 3 times before getting treatment

Stems back to a time before the bracelets to differentiate patients to avoid mistreatment. But yea, now there’s no need. OH says it’s sometimes a test to see how lucid a patient is.

The poor devil it's a terrible way to be

Makes it more expensive and less accessible for teens I reckon. No way would I have had €23 to buy fags back when I started it was a job even to get €8 together for a pack back then but still was doable. Vapes are probably still well under a tenner these days how more blatantly obvious does it have to get there pushing them on teens and even younger children. Have a distant cousin getting radiation at the moment never smoked but had to get part of her tongue removed too due to those vapes. Said it to a cousin about that situation and he says he heard that but that's hereditary it wouldn't affect our side i neednt worry about them he said, no telling some people.

Couldn't get over the size of the major box either. It used to be a wide enough green and white box

I know the fags or vapes are not a good job , but that laughing gas stuff is on another level. After I done strimming along the road , there was any amount of the canisters on a small stretch.

Where are they getting the cans from anyone know?

Bons staff seem to be the best and friendliest, I also reckon they are the hardest working.

Had an op a decade ago, shaved my big lump of a head before being admitted, in the theatre waiting area with a big red x on the block, between doctors and nurses I was asked where I was having the op precisely about 10 times, this after each looking at the file, couldn't figure out was it because of claims or people trying to be relevant.