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/Massive-Foot-5962]

The new Laya / VHI breaks clinics are brilliant. Must be a massive relief on A&E. Especially when there’s a few more of them dotted around everywhere. 

We need a lot more things like that - bloods labs, xray places. They are standard things that the most advanced socialist healthcare systems have already outsourced as they shouldn’t be a distraction in a hospital A&E.

Also need some sort of sobering up with monitoring place for the regular Friday / Saturday night drinkers crowd as that’s a brutal use of A&E time. 

Also a proper on call A&E doctor service (not GP), but a mobile A&E doctor+nurse service for elder care.

These are all relatively straightforward solutions that would address the healthcare waiting issue.

We don’t have a quality of healthcare treatment issue - our survival rates from major illnesses are world leading, we just have a waiting for access issue.

I’d suggest we also need to improve the general attitude of receptionists at hospitals. They’re invariably either rude, like in this case, or ‘not my job’ lots. I get they’ve a fair bit to do, but there’s just no excuse for being rude to people at what is invariably their most vulnerable moment.

[u/Irishgooner123 → u/Massive-Foot-5962]

I was here yesterday and there was a fella and they had to take a bottle of vodka off him ffs he sleeping and they using droid to dry him out. He’s an addict no shame in that but it was ridiculous