• Here is my recent experience at a large NHS hospital, where I spent two weeks in the extreme trauma ward, due to a serious road traffic accident. I am not writing this to complain about the NHS as a whole, but just their choices of who they employ. I am as we all are that they are under pressure and short staffed, but they do seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. However I had 2 terrible experiences that are still giving me nightmares. The first was early one morning when this youth was on his rounds taking blood pressures, I obviously I was not waking up quickly enough for him, because, suddenly I was awaken by a sharp shooting pain in my arm that was already broken in four places and in plaster only to see this youth yanking my arm towards him to get the BP machine connected. Of course I screamed in agony and gave him a few choice words for his complete stupidity. • The other occasion was at 2am, when I needed to go to the bathroom and needed help getting out of the bed. I had several broken ribs amongst other things and three tubes attached. So I called out to the nurse on duty, I need some help, to which he replied shouting and I kid you not, Who the fxxx do you think you are asking me for help, do you think I am here to fxxxing help you, help your fxxxing self. I lied there for a few minutes, trying to absorb what I had heard from this nurse, but I still needed to get to the bathroom, so tried to get out of bed myself, he then laughed and said you cant can you because of all the tubes, then laughed again. I tried to pull myself up using the rail on the bed, when I felt my recently operated on coller bone brake. The nurse then shouted down the corridor for another nurse to help me, fortunately a nice Nepalese girl, who then took me to the X-ray dept, where they confirmed that my collar bone fix had broken and still is to this day, it could not be repaired. • This nurse was in his mid 60s and I can only assume that he had not worked in a normal hospital for all those years and had got away with that kind of behaviour for so long, so can only assume that he had been working at somewhere like broadmore or some similar institution. I had also observed the night before that he was drinking whisky from one of those small hip flask shaped bottles. I did of course make complaints to other nurses and one other higher up, but they were only concerned about the whisky. I know that they have heard him shouting and swearing at patients before, I had heard him myself from another ward on 3 other occasions. A year later most of my injuries have improved, however my head injuries seem to be long lasting and now suffer from PTSD from this experience on a daily experience.
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