Thread by @EmergencyMedDr

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

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

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.

4)
• Seen ward cupboards emptied & beds put in which can’t be seen from clinical areas (my 99 year old was initially their first patient …. Because that’s acceptable! Oh and the last time they did this a man was found dead when doing routine obs!)

5)
• Seen every 6 bedded room have a 7th bed put in front of fire escapes as ‘escalation beds’ which clearly have no access to oxygen/call bells/basics!
• Examined most patients in back of ambulances (when cupboards weren’t available)

6) #TheNHSisBroken
• Watched 6 ambulances outside run down to their last 2 cylinders of oxygen (of which my oxygen dependent patient is on the back of one) in the context of our hospital not having a cylinder of oxygen left!
• Watched a 4th bed squeezed in to a 3 bed resus

7) #TheNHSisBroken

• Apologised to every single patient I have seen!

I just want to go home and never come back!

(Shared anonymously from a diligent doctor desperate to do better for their patients, whilst clearly fighting fire in what must feel like a war zone)