Patients - they are the worst thing about hospitals. It's not poor care, though that still happens, or waiting times, but the people who take up the space.
Harsh? Not really. A recent visit to A&E was a traumatic affair, not just because of an urgent need to be admitted. A huge, scary guy was ranting and raving, rampaging about and crashing into walls. A kind nurse put us in a side room for safety, saying: " He has been in here every night for the past week doing the same thing and every time he gets treated like royalty."
Shocking - but even more so was the discovery that Mad Dog, as we called him, was given the next bed to my sick son. He continued to rage and abuse. On the other side was drug addict Dean, in with a sore foot and still there well after he should have been sent home. He kept finding symptoms. After ten days we left him to it.
Yes the system needs reform. Today the Government admits to mistakes. There is waste on a grand scale, but with patients like this, who's to blame?
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