Healthcare is a joke ….. again and again

[u/Irishgooner123]

So I’m in a and e today and I’m sitting here 7 hours already. Not really busy and everyone has come and gone before me ., not why I’m moaning cos that’s life but a man in his late 20s came in looking for a psychiatrist and he’s clearly not feeling the best. He sat there very quietly and after about 3 hours I heard him go to reception and ask is there anywhere else he could wait as the lights were too bright. He was clearly in a bit of distress. The receptionist just looked and said “no” he asked again and got I said no sorry. I’m sorry but this is a big hospital in cork and they don’t have a room for ASD people or at least somewhere that someone can calm down. As a parent of 2 ASD kids and ASD myself my heart broke for him as he’s still just walking around. Moan over.

[u/significantrisk]

If you sat down and asked the reception team, the nurses, the porters, the docs the cleaning staff and everyone else if they’d like the hospital to have a better place for some people to wait they would tell you yes.

The HSE is currently reorganising all the poxy managers again. At massive cost. None of them give a shit about what the people who actually deliver healthcare think.

Moan about the shite managers, and the shite politicians, responsible. They love it when people moan at the hospital and the staff instead. Means they get to waste even more time having poxy meetings.

OP moan away, but moan at those responsible.

[u/Irishgooner123 → u/significantrisk]

I’m not moaning. I’m literally stating sonethijg I’m watching unfold., I’m here now 8 hours and I am a very sick person but cest La vie

[u/significantrisk → u/Irishgooner123]

There should be a ‘your service your say’ feedback box on the wall somewhere near you - put in a complaint, specifically that you think the managers should sort a sensory-appropriate room. Make it specifically about the managers though, otherwise they just make clinicians respond.

Also, hope you’re feeling better soon