A&E Hospital Stories

mardybumbum · 01-09-2014 05:34AM

cruais wrote: »

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

I know. I work there.

Seen your thread just as I was having my breakfast and was going to ask you how busy it was before I went in.
Turned out to be a lovely day.

gordongekko · 01-09-2014 06:22AM

cruais wrote: »

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?

Seems to be enough entertainment there already

daveohdave · 01-09-2014 07:57AM

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.

First world problems are truly shocking.

Berserker · 01-09-2014 12:34PM

Never been in a public hospital A&E myself. My father cut his hand in work, a few years ago and he had to go into A&E, James' (Dublin) if I remember correctly. Anyway, a young lady approached my mother looking for money for coke. My mother thought she meant Coca Cola coke ........

SillyMangoX · 01-09-2014 12:49PM

I was in a&e overnight a couple of years ago, wasn't anything major just asthma so I was okay but had to be kept for observation. The nurse was as thick as a plank though. Had to ask 7 times before I got some paracetamol. Had to remind her every single time I needed my nebuliser changed. I wouldn't mind but it wasn't even a busy night. But to top it off, she had to leave the room to find someone from the psychiatry unit (it was like a holding unit off of a&e where it was a bit quieter) and she asked me if I would mind keeping an eye on the patient beside me. Now from what I had overheard this patient was suicidal, had taken a lot of pills and was strongly resentful of being in hospital. The nurse told me she kept trying to rip out her IV lines so if I could just watch out to make sure she doesn't do it again that would be great.
So here's me, having trouble breathing as is, being given responsibility for a patient who could possibly attempt suicide at any moment bricking it that if anything happened I would get the blame (I was only 19, I know now it wouldn't have been my fault!). And the nurse was gone about an hour. Thankfully nothing happened but lord that was not a pleasent experience.

I was also in last Wednesday, came in a 6pm and by 10am next morning I was being wheeled into theatre to have my appendix out. First time I've had an a&e visit that I couldn't fault in any way!

ninebeanrows · 01-09-2014 01:17PM

A&E is quick and easy if you are in a real bad way, otherwise it's awful.

But if you have a genuine urgent issue it will be dealt with speedily and comprehensively. Well that's from my experience anyway!

Beano · 01-09-2014 01:20PM

I had to spend the night in the waiting room in Beaumont on a friday night a few years ago when my mam had a stroke. The people who complained about a smell of piss had it easy. There was a drunk sitting in the same waiting room who had shat himself.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 01-09-2014 01:28PM

I was in A and E in Galway a few years ago. Got there Saturday afternoon. There'd been a traveller wedding, which had at some point kicked off. Injured parties from both sides were brought to the same A and E. Surprisingly enough, it kicked off again in the waiting room :pac:

So anyways I had minor injuries and was fairly far down the list of priorities. Nurses walking around looking for patients with fairly traveller-ish names for most of the afternoon ("Princess Mc Carthy" is one that's stuck in my memory). Man with a broken nose and a shirt covered in blood walking around trying to calm down his tiny baby while his wife was being convinced to see the doctor. And so on and so forth.

Eventually got through triage and into a bed. It was now about ten pm on a Saturday night so a whole new wave of drunken eejits was being admitted. Young fellah in the bed next to me (settled guy btw) had gotten into a fight on a night out and broken his arm. Poor nurse was trying to deal with him while he kept roaring "Hell-oooooooooooo nurse!" a la the Animaniacs. When she left he got the phone out and called about three people to tell them to "find that scabby bastard and tell him I'm going to batter him with my cast and then me da is going to do a dance on him!". Also he was apparently going to meet people at the club later, sure it's only a broken arm.

Twelve hours after I arrived and twenty fúcking minutes after I saw a doctor I got out of there.

ednwireland · 01-09-2014 01:36PM

august bank holiday saturday in letterkenny was in having blackouts basically with what turns out to be an upper GI bleed ended up with 5 units of blood and in hospital for 8 days. 13 hours before i got onto a ward. got to say apart from the usual drunks and emergencies was ok. although my other half on a fold out from the wall chair might disagree.

still off work now picked up an ear infection now

have to say the front line staff just dont stop though, dont know how they do it

893bet · 01-09-2014 02:03PM

I went in with a bang to the head last year and with no hearing in one ear. I was seen immediately which is evidence of the triage system in practice (ended up being a fractured skull, just avoided the need to operate to relief pressure on the brain from fluid etc. was a scary 24 hours while they were waiting to see if there was a need).

I was on a trolley in the busy a and e and being seen to. I am a bad patient who is terrified of needles and hospitals. I nearly had to be held down to put in the "line" in my arm. After that I was lying there with my good ear to the pillow so my deaf ear up so hearing was muffled. Next thing I heard "my" nurse who had just put in the line in my arm talking about a catheter and up I jumped from the bed telling my wife (sitting on side of bed) we were leaving and assuring the nurse I was feeling much better and would take a few paracetamol etc. I have only vague recollection of it all but the nurse had been talking about another patient to another nurse and in my confused concussed fractured state had gotten highly excited. Surprised they didnt have to sedate me.

Funny to look back on.

average hero · 01-09-2014 02:27PM

Earlier this year I went into A&E with a bum knee after a training injury. Was seen to relatively quickly where I was asked to come back in the morning. Drove home (with the hurt knee - twas agony) and came back the next morning. Seen to straight away, given a preliminary diagnosis and x-ray within an hour.

I really have a lot of respect for the nurses and doctors I dealt. This was in a busy public hospital in north Dublin too. The waiting afterwards for things such as MRI and stuff was terrible but the initial care I got was excellent.

Basically: hospital staff - great. HSE, organisationals heads, government - bad.

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