Jesus H christ, that sounds bloody aweful littlebrowndragon, I have recently got out of hospital and had nothing but wonderful care, doctors and nurses have been patient and caring, the food and the kitchen people have been wonderful, i could not ask for better care and understanding, i seriously could not praise them enough
I couldn't agree with you more.WTF, training course, just to say, do not say that again,what if the mother asks? obviously tell her, end of training, that will be £50
Considering it was a Scottish hospital, she's lucky to have gotten out without contracting a serious infection. Seriously, though, the NHS up here seems to be in even more of a crisis than down South (which is saying something), my family members can tell some stories too, but nothing as awful as @littlebrowndragon 's tale of woe. I wish I could offer constructive advice, but I got nuthin'.
I have a lot to do with the NHS Scotland for various reasons, not all my own! I also have a lot to do with NHS England - all my family down there are of an age where they are using the NHS more and more.
I've seen problems about equally in both countries. I'd categorise them as the result of chronic money shortages and some individiual situations - a demoralised team for example, crap designs decisions at a hospital for another one.
Comparing the two? The morale north of the border is higher and staff in all roles are trained more. As I understand it (from figures quoted verbally at a meeting with NHSGGC link to the general website the net flow of staff from within the UK is northwards and is increasing from where it was 20 years ago.
It's pertinent data but I don't know how far it can be generalised, although NHSGGC is the largest in the UK.
I know someone who is a third generation midwife, who returned to duty recently after a year out.
She delivered her first baby after her return & told the mother that it was a boy.
She felt the room freeze & was ordered outside, to be told that you no longer tell the mother the sex of the child, just that it’s “a baby” & she was told that she obviously needs further training!!!!!
She is being sent on a further training course...........
Just checked this with MrsCarlos, who is a Senior Midwifery Lecturer - this is almost true.
You're OK to say the sex of the baby, but not the gender. "The baby is male" rather than "It's a boy". Sex is a biological, gender is emotional.
However, this rule could depend on the hospital!
You're OK to say the sex of the baby, but not the gender. "The baby is male" rather than "It's a boy". Sex is a biological, gender is emotional.
A few years ago when I had pneumonia I received world-class treatment on the NHS. In fact they had me on a trolley stripped to my pants, gowned up and a drip in my arm so fast - within 10 minutes of arriving - that one turned to me, pointed to Techy and asked 'That IS your husband, isn't it? Not the taxi driver?'
Workers renovating a house on Canal Street, Old Aberdeen, last November found bones in the soil of a garden, triggering a complex investigation into how they got there.
Police quickly ruled out foul play and tasked archaeology experts from Aberdeenshire Council and Aberdeen University to solve the mystery.
And after studying the bones and deciphering records from the last 200 years over an 11-month period, the team has pieced together a puzzle – determining the most likely explanation was a medical student trying not to fall foul of the law.
https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp...e-been-buried-medical-students-187-years-ago/
This is how some people believe Dr Crippen's murdered wife's remains appeared in their cellar after she vanished. They reckon it wasn't Belle but bits of 'homework' dumped by medical students.
Crippen was training them? Or... ? how did they get access to the space?
*sharp intake of breath*
Swedes indict surgeon for stem-cell windpipe transplants
A Swedish prosecutor on Tuesday indicted on charges of aggravated assault a surgeon believed to have made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s the first stem-cell windpipe transplants, saying three people had laboratory-made tracheas implanted at Sweden’s leading hospital.
Although Mikael Bjork, director of Public Prosecution, didn’t name him, Swedish news agency TT said the surgeon was Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, who was once considered a pioneer in regenerative medicine, credited with creating the world’s first windpipe partially made from a patient’s own stem cells. ...
In December 2018, Bjork decided to reopen a previously discontinued investigation into three cases. ...
“It has become clear to me that the operations were carried out in conflict with science and proven experience,” he added.
Macchiarini was fired from Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Institute in March 2016 for breaching medical ethics after being accused of falsifying his resume and misrepresenting his work.
When Macchiarini’s first windpipe transplant was reported in the medical journal Lancet in 2008, it was hailed as a breakthrough in regenerative medicine. Macchiarini’s new airway — partly made using stem cells from the patient — was thought to herald a new era where new organs could be made in the laboratory.
Despite an independent commission in Sweden that found numerous problems in Macchiarini’s work, the Lancet has so far declined to retract the study.
Bjork said the operation had caused the victims “serious physical injuries and great suffering,” and “have been carried out with absolutely no legal basis.”
“I have made the assessment that the three operations are therefore to be considered as aggravated assault,” Bjork said. ...
Of the 20 patients Macchiarini operated on to provide them with an artificial windpipe — from countries including Spain, Russian, Iceland, Britain and the U.S. — only three are still alive. ...
As with many postings, this could live in many different fora – unusual crimes for instance – but I think it sits well here.
A well-respected surgeon has hoarded thousands of body parts over decades, to help keep his mind active during retirement – I kid you not. It appears he was assisted in this by other hospital staff members, which is pretty shocking, and that it looks like a cover-up ensued. Bizarre to say the least. (Edited to replace enthused with ensued.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ts-edgbaston-hospital-birmingham-b647226.html
Derek McMinn, expert surgeon (Andy Murray can credit him with his revived tennis career) has had restrictions imposed and is under investigation after it was revealed he kept souvenirs of the operations he conducted. He has a collection of 5224 bones, taken from the still-living bodies of his patients. So much for going private!