A&E Hospital Stories

cruais · 28-08-2014 05:22AM #1

So I have been sitting in A&E for the past 6 and a half hours with no sign of getting any further. Bored out of my tree.

So far, one guy decides to pi$s all over the floor, junkies having a row with eachother, resulting in the guards making an appearance and another preaching Jesus.

Every creature seems to like hanging out here.

So people of after hours, please keep me entertained.

Whats your funny stories from hospital?

kneemos · 28-08-2014 05:35AM

Can't imagine what it's like to wait that long.

cruais · 28-08-2014 05:48AM

kneemos wrote: »

Can't imagine what it's like to wait that long.

Like pulling teeth

Toots · 28-08-2014 06:31AM

I was in for 10 hours last year, wasn't too bad cos I was so out of it I kept falling asleep. I do remember there being one young man brought in who was from a community whose houses often come with wheels, and he was NOT a happy camper. I think he'd had a seizure or something. Anyway the doctors and nurses were telling him how it was important to be in the hospital cos they didn't know what was wrong with him and he might have serious head injuries etc. Next thing his parents come charging in and demand that he come home with them, the doctors are fighting a losing battle getting him to stay. The mum starts gathering up his clothes, then the dad just yanked the IV straight out of his arm. Blood everywhere. Twas feckin great. Oh and the old lady in the trolley beside me pissed herself.

cruais · 28-08-2014 06:39AM

An old man just had a heart attack in front of us in the waiting room... defib to shock his heart. He is alive thank goodness.

Horrible sight

Banjo String · 28-08-2014 06:48AM

A bloke came in to the A&E waiting room one evening I was in it with a Punnet of strawberries stuck up his bum. :eek:

The doctor put some cream on it.

fizzypish · 28-08-2014 07:02AM

Been in a&e once or twice after injuring myself during the previous nights festivities. Sitting there, looking about at some of the dregs of society and a few genuinely ill/injured non drink related folk, and then realizing that I too must be one of the dregs. Must be awful tough on doctors/nurses working in a&e, baby sitting drunk twats at the weekends.

mardybumbum · 28-08-2014 07:04AM

What A&E are you in out of interest?

Tail Docker · 28-08-2014 08:24AM

I have a loyalty card for the place. Not too pushed on it though, it's full of drips.

anncoates · 28-08-2014 08:36AM

Years ago, I had to go in with a gash above my eyebrow. It was quite late at night and I was a bit disorientated. When they said afterwards I had to have a jab, for some stupid reason - presumably from childhood - I thought you had to get the needle in the arse so I started to dutifully unbuckle my belt and pull down my trousers to the absolute horror of the nurse.

cruais · 30-08-2014 06:52AM

mardybumbum wrote: »

What A&E are you in out of interest?

The mater hospital... I tell you, it's an experience...

dmc17 · 30-08-2014 07:16AM

cruais wrote: »

The mater hospital... I tell you, it's an experience...

Are you still waiting?

Grayson · 30-08-2014 08:45AM

dmc17 wrote: »

Are you still waiting?

they might be there for a while. :)It's one of the busiest in the country. If you're non critical you're waiting ages. I've hear of people spending weekends there

I know someone who's a paramedic. When they drop someone to the hospital they wheel them in on a trolley. they transfer them to another trolley and then take their own back to the ambulance. Then they head off and pick up someone else.

they once spent a whole shift in the mater because when they wheeled in someone there was no trolley to transfer them to and they had to wait hours for one to become available.

Apparently Beaumont is the worst waiting times in the country.

I've been in A&E twice in recent years, bit times in a smaller Dublin hospital and both times I was seen in about 6 hours.

stefan idiot jones · 30-08-2014 09:00AM

My Aunty worked with a lady who used to work in an A&E in London years ago.
One hot summers day a guy came in wearing a long coat. He also would not give any details to the staff only he insisted that it was a male doctor that he would speak to.
Eventually the doctor came to see him with a female nurse who the doctor insisted being there whatever the man's concerns were.
The msn then removed his coat to reveal a baseball bat stuck up his poop shute handle first.
'Apparently' the man slipped.

cloud493 · 30-08-2014 09:07AM

Not very long ago, I was in the waiting room of a certain Dublin hospital, about 4am? Lot of drunks and what not, usual. These absolute scumbags who'd been knocking the ****e out of each got out a pack of smokes, and lit up in the waiting room. I mean it stank anyway, but I was shocked, specially since no one reacted. I hadn't seen any security in the waiting room, only in the actually medical bit, and none of the nurses or whatever called them out on it. I dunno, I was shocked.

Rubberchikken · 30-08-2014 09:12AM

why paramedics have to wait to get their trolley back and the delay it must cause seems ill thought out.
there has got to be a better system running in hospitals worldwide. why can't irish hospitals learn from others that are functunioning better than us?

whatdoicare · 30-08-2014 09:22AM

One time I was waiting with the husband to be admitted when in ran a woman with a very small baby. Baby was maybe three months, four at most was in a car crash and the baby wouldn't wake up.

The absolute fool of a receptionist asked her to take a seat while the poor woman was calling her baby trying to get her to wake up.

I never saw such greatness after this, everyone in the waiting room started pounding on the door to the hospital part until someone opened it and we ran in roaring for the doctor!

Another woman tore strips out of the receptionist, who still couldn't see what she did wrong! Like wtf!

I don't know if the baby was alright after that but I still have nightmares from it! How could they leave a baby waiting?? Surely the queue doesn't apply here?

This says it all about the state of our health care and the attitude of those running the show. Not an ounce of cop on.

king_of_inismac · 30-08-2014 09:25AM

I have never been in A&E in Galway hospital without there being members of the travelling community being there.

Must be the lifestyle/culture thing that makes them more prone to illness/injury.

Before the PC brigade rush in, I'm not talking about injuries from fighting or anything similar - just normal illnesses or injuries.

DeadHand · 30-08-2014 09:29AM

king_of_inismac wrote: »

I have never been in A&E in Galway hospital without there being members of the travelling community being there.

Must be the lifestyle/culture thing that makes them more prone to illness/injury.

Before the PC brigade rush in, I'm not talking about injuries from fighting or anything similar - just normal illnesses or injuries.

It's possession of a medical card and a lack of anything else to do.

DrGreenthumb · 30-08-2014 09:36AM

king_of_inismac wrote: »

I have never been in A&E in Galway hospital without there being members of the travelling community being there.

Must be the lifestyle/culture thing that makes them more prone to illness/injury.

Before the PC brigade rush in, I'm not talking about injuries from fighting or anything similar - just normal illnesses or injuries.

Do some recearch on inbreeding and that should answer your question

ruthloss · 30-08-2014 09:47AM

cloud493 wrote: »

Not very long ago, I was in the waiting room of a certain Dublin hospital, about 4am? Lot of drunks and what not, usual. These absolute scumbags who'd been knocking the ****e out of each got out a pack of smokes, and lit up in the waiting room. I mean it stank anyway, but I was shocked, specially since no one reacted. I hadn't seen any security in the waiting room, only in the actually medical bit, and none of the nurses or whatever called them out on it. I dunno, I was shocked.

Perhaps the Nurses 'or whatever' don't like being cursed or spat at or indeed having the crap beaten out of them., and before anyone makes the "oh don't be so dramatic" comment., I was that soldier.

DeadHand · 30-08-2014 10:38AM

cloud493 wrote: »

Not very long ago, I was in the waiting room of a certain Dublin hospital, about 4am? Lot of drunks and what not, usual. These absolute scumbags who'd been knocking the ****e out of each got out a pack of smokes, and lit up in the waiting room. I mean it stank anyway, but I was shocked, specially since no one reacted. I hadn't seen any security in the waiting room, only in the actually medical bit, and none of the nurses or whatever called them out on it. I dunno, I was shocked.

Not the nurses duty to call them out on anything, they have enough to be doing. A failure of the security staff more so than the nurses.

pharmaton · 30-08-2014 11:25AM

I've only been to a&e once. I had just flown in to Ireland and my kidneys had taken a turn just before take off but I managed to bare down until we landed and hung on for the two hour drive home where I went to the local a&e to ask for something to relieve pain as it was early morning and no chemists were open. I didn't like having to go there and bother busy hospital staff for something like a kidney infection.

I sheepishly explained to the receptionist the problem and instead of making me wait she called a doc straight away and within ten minutes I was on a drip and queued for an ultrasound.

There was also another travelling person being seen to by the doc in the cubicle next to me, she was complaining loudly of a pain in her big toe. I think she had an ingrown toenail. I suspect the doc was happy to see me as it gave him something else to focus on as I ended up being admitted for a week.

bnt · 30-08-2014 11:33AM

Yikes. I've only had to go to A&E three times in my life, the first two in South Africa and once here in Ireland. All three were in the middle of the day, and I was seen pretty much straight away every time. So I have no "tales from the waiting room", and the most recent time (St. Vincent's) it was pretty quiet once I got inside. I got the impression that drunk people are kept in the waiting room to keep them from disrupting the rest of the A&E where the real work is done.

osarusan · 30-08-2014 11:37AM

This is my A&E story. I think I've told it here before.
I was about five or six, and I was playing "circus" with my brother. I was standing on his shoulders, when I fell off and my head landed on an upturned plug. The plug got stuck in the back of my head, in the skin only and not the skull itself, fortunately. So I had to go to hospital to get the plug removed and my head stitched up.

The doctor was from India or Pakistan or somewhere like that, and I was terrified of him. I spent the entire time I was there screaming at my mother, "don't let the brown man touch me." She was, I presume, mortified.

starlit · 30-08-2014 11:38AM

Were you waiting long in St Vincent's bnt I've been to A and E a few times. Waiting times varied for me 3-5 hours but had a short wait the last time but was still in A and E few hours.

kneemos · 30-08-2014 11:44AM

My mother went to A+E for something I forget what and brought me with her.
I was just a toddler but managed get through infants and had just started primary school when the doctor called her name.

suicide_circus · 30-08-2014 11:45AM

anncoates wrote: »

Years ago, I had to go in with a gash above my eyebrow.

I wouldn't say the wife was too impressed with that!

Balmed Out · 30-08-2014 11:54AM

Friend had food poisoning in South africa and all private hospitals were full so we went to a public one.Slow to complain about an Irish hospital again.

He was in a corridor for about 15 hours being hydrated from a drip until whatever was in his system passed. The corridor was full of others all with large amounts of bruising - I presume they were unfortunate enough to have aids.

Rather then the smell of bleach there was an overwhelming stench of urine. I sat in a corner and spent the night watching the biggest rat you can imagine walking around a corner and stealing slices of bread from patients belongings beneath their trolleys before going carrying the bread back around the corner and repeating.

steveone · 30-08-2014 12:04PM

I spent six and a half hours waiting in a/e blanch after a car accident. The Poster on the wall in front of me read "look after yourself..." so i got up and went home. Doubt anyone even noticed.

anncoates · 30-08-2014 12:04PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

I wouldn't say the wife was too impressed with that!

Was single at the time thankfully.

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