If anyone is in doubt about the NHS

[Johnnyboxer]

....from a NHS health worker

The respect is gone. The appreciation is gone.
The “thank you so much for working through this” has been replaced by “this is ridiculous”.
Understandably the frustration felt by patients and their relatives is at an all time high. The annoyed eye rolls and huffy sighs when you tell them “it shouldn’t be much longer, we are doing the best we can” are really starting to chip away at our morale.
The free coffee and meals are a thing of the past.
The hotel lights in the shape of hearts aren’t on anymore.
The neighbours that waved us off to work and told us to “stay safe” have gone back inside.
And the local rag is back to pointing out our short comings.
We are still here. We are still fighting. We are working harder than we ever have.
We are exhausted.
We are frustrated.
We are so emotionally and physically drained.
We are skipping breaks.
We are going in early and coming home late.
We are missing time with our families.
We are doing THE. BEST. WE. CAN.
We aren’t “healthcare heroes” anymore.

We have become slaves to this pandemic, and it is really exhausting.

RESPECT THE NHS

#respecttheNHS

 

[spin cycle]

i 'liked' the post for it's sentiment and don't share guths opinion on everything BUT i'm against singling out members like this

 

[Bury the Trash]

i 'liked' the post for it's sentiment and don't share guths opinion on everything BUT i'm against singling out members like this

I agree but some need to think before they post.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

i 'liked' the post for it's sentiment and don't share guths opinion on everything BUT i'm against singling out members like this

Edited, to show respect for all

 

[neilo]

i 'liked' the post for it's sentiment and don't share guths opinion on everything BUT i'm against singling out members like this

Quite. Maybe a mod could change the thread title?

I certainly share the sentiment though. I know it must be a hard slog for many working there.

 

[JeepJeep]

Self Inflicted.... Theres people taking the pee in all jobs and industries. Can't tar them all.

Water of a ducks back to him.

 

[spin cycle]

I agree but some need to think before they post.

good point....but do we really wanna turn into some kinda 'pious mob' they get on facebook?

 

[JeepJeep]

Obviously not had the stories of a Nurse coming home off a Covid ward either. Or the tears.

 

[spin cycle]

Obviously not had the stories of a Nurse coming home off a Covid ward either. Or the tears.

what gets me mad is ppl moaning about lockdowns on the news cos they can't go shopping or get pee'd

 

[JeepJeep]

what gets me mad is ppl moaning about lockdowns on the news cos they can't go shopping or get pee'd

It's not hard to do our own little bit... Live but don't be daft. Put a Mask on... Box 50's f**k all carry it in the truck and put one on.

 

[defender]

2 sides to the nhs just now . There is the side dealing with covid, working hard and doing their best
Then there is the side that has put the brakes on , GP surgeries are not seeing patients that need to be seen ,
Online appointments don't pick up the real cause in many cases
The treatment after getting in to hospital is usually good but often crap before that.

 

[Bury the Trash]

good point....but do we really wanna turn into some kinda 'pious mob' they get on facebook?

Yeah fer sure


but What does pious mean ?

 

[Dry Rot]

I am a fairly down to earth character but there was a victim of C-19 (the first one?) interviewed on Radio 4 the other morning. He'd been in a coma for 60 days and on intensive care, had barely survived, and was now "recovering" which means either a kidney transplant or dialysis for life, having fingers amputated, needing 24 hour help, the lot. His wife mentioned how a nurse held his hand all night when he was near to death and was expected to die. And so it went on.

Even before C-19 I had the greatest respect for the NHS, but just how do we show our appreciation? The occasional box of chocolates or cake seem totally inadequate.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Obviously not had the stories of a Nurse coming home off a Covid ward either. Or the tears.

Neither have I but I have had tears from my other half after she suffered racial abuse from a mid wife on a maternity ward. I have also had to sooth my two month old daughter who had to be taken off breast feeding after the f**ktard pharmacist put powerful sedatives (that could have killed my daughter) Into my other halves prescription instead of blood pressure tablets. No doubt some front line staff are great but they are not all brilliant - some should be shot like the one who was recently found to be murdering children on the ward.

Applaud them all you want but they are paid to do a job and some can’t even do that, many are very handsomely paid too. The pharmacist in question with us was promoted soon after her fudge up with us. Would you get promoted for giving a cow the wrong drugs? Thought not.

 

[Chae1]

I just can't see how the NHS will cope if we get hit hard with covid in January. I ended up in hospital Jan 20 and our local big hospital was busting at the seams. Patients in corridors etc.

With covid this year I can't see how they've any spare capacity in place to deal with covid patients.

Hope I'm wrong but I don't think January is going to be a good month. This new strain of covid has hardly hit Scotland yet. Think they said tonight only 45 cases linked to new strain. What they don't seem to be publicising is its spread more in schools by young children. Hence 2 weeks already been added on to the end of our primary school childrens Christmas holidays today.

Don't know when they'll be back.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Neither have I but I have had tears from my other half after she suffered racial abuse from a mid wife on a maternity ward. I have also had to sooth my two month old daughter who had to be taken off breast feeding after the fudgetard pharmacist put powerful sedatives (that could have killed my daughter) Into my other halves prescription instead of blood pressure tablets. No doubt some front line staff are great but they are not all brilliant - some should be shot like the one who was recently found to be murdering children on the ward.

Applaud them all you want but they are paid to do a job and some can’t even do that, many are very handsomely paid too. The pharmacist in question with us was promoted soon after her fudge up with us. Would you get promoted for giving a cow the wrong drugs? Thought not.

I think you are mixing two very different things together here with your probable frustration and grief at your very personal situation. Any of the front line COVID staff are doing a tremendous job given the constraints of the NSH and general public’s demands. A lot of these operators will be mentally scarred for life with the life / death decisions they have to make now on a daily basis. The original post is a heartfelt plea to help the burden not over run the system. We can all help in many easy ways.

 

[GeorgeK]

I think the government makes it worse because they rarely admit to there being any problems with anything. They mislead everyone about the true impact of the pandemic so people turn up to hospitals expecting everything to be running smoothly when it's actually in meltdown.
If you believe Boris, everything's 'mightily terrific'

 

[JeepJeep]

Neither have I but I have had tears from my other half after she suffered racial abuse from a mid wife on a maternity ward. I have also had to sooth my two month old daughter who had to be taken off breast feeding after the fudgetard pharmacist put powerful sedatives (that could have killed my daughter) Into my other halves prescription instead of blood pressure tablets. No doubt some front line staff are great but they are not all brilliant - some should be shot like the one who was recently found to be murdering children on the ward.

Applaud them all you want but they are paid to do a job and some can’t even do that, many are very handsomely paid too. The pharmacist in question with us was promoted soon after her fudge up with us. Would you get promoted for giving a cow the wrong drugs? Thought not.

We all no doubt have accounts of poor NHS Treatment... This week we lost a neighbour to Cancer after being told by their Specilaist it wasn't back just 8 weeks or so ago.

My Missus would have a son turn 18 this year but he only made it to 9 due to the NHS f**king his birth up and him ending up serverly disabled.

Doesn't warrant anyone ill informed saying all the NHS are a lazy bunch. Lot of them are I agree, same as any industry.. Lot of them can't be in work due to the NHS's own rules etc. Wales are missing a high number aswell so what the character that's informing us of the many off in his area says may well be true. But to imply they are all lazy or don't want to be in work is wrong.

 

[MiJ]

We can show our respect to those who care for the sick by doing our very best to not catch or spread it.

 

[Tarw Coch]

We’ve come a long way since clap for carers