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Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.
Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.
Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.
Read all three pages right to the end 👆🏻
Please help our doctors and nurses spread the reality of the situation in hospitals.
#TheNHSisBroken
Please help our doctors and nurses spread the reality of the situation in hospitals.
#TheNHSisBroken
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1) #TheNHSisBroken What drs are reduced to during current extreme hospital pressures. From an anon doctor, a 🧵:
This wkend I have done things I have never done in my working life, now expected, it’s breaking me! My standard of care is being dropped to accommodate this fiasco
This wkend I have done things I have never done in my working life, now expected, it’s breaking me! My standard of care is being dropped to accommodate this fiasco
2) I have;
• Examined testicles in cupboards
• Examined abdomens in cupboards with no couch
• Had my SHO hold up sheets around patients in recliners because there were no dividers given how many patients were being treated in the middle of the floor
• Examined testicles in cupboards
• Examined abdomens in cupboards with no couch
• Had my SHO hold up sheets around patients in recliners because there were no dividers given how many patients were being treated in the middle of the floor
3) #TheNHSisBroken
• Been to trauma calls in the ‘quiet room’ (for the dead) so in essence a different cupboard
• Get the whole team to make an examination area around a patient in the middle of a floor for sternal examination using bodies/sheets.
• Been to trauma calls in the ‘quiet room’ (for the dead) so in essence a different cupboard
• Get the whole team to make an examination area around a patient in the middle of a floor for sternal examination using bodies/sheets.
