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Monday, 23 November 2009

Trauma and Orthopaedic Unit (Stafford) Waiting Room Disgrace !


Well the following day I had to attend an 8AM appointment with the Orthopaedic surgeon to review the bleeding and to evaluate if any work needed to be carried out, grafts stitched etc.

We arrived at 7:59am for the appointment to the shutters being down. A nurse asked us to wait in the waiting room and once the surgeon was on the ward she would call us.

This is where the desire for this post was born.

I walked into the waiting room and I was disgusted in what state the room was in.

I took a number of pictures with my phone but believe me it does not do it justice.

The room was dirty, messy, untidy and generally disgraceful.

I would have expected a third world hospital to have looked like this.

On the walls leading into the ward just outside the waiting room there were these small boxes fitted to the wall that had a computer voice asking you to use the special hand wash to stop germs spreading. Yerr right what out of the waiting room mabe!


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1. Dirty floor rubbish and paper rappers everywhere.

2. Chairs scattered around room looked old and dirty.

3. One broken chare just asking for an accident clame if you sat on it.

4. One light not working.

5. Bin by coffee machine over flowing.

6. What looked like a wooden pallet leaning up against wall?

7. Paint peeling off walls

8. Radiator looked like it was from the 70s and grotty.


What a disgrace, come on people first impressions!


 






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AND MULTIPLY !

A Cut Above The Rest !

Well what can I say; this reflects the danger of using a Stanley knife at home without paying attention.

What was I doing you may ask?

Well I was cutting some wood with the plan to snap it off once I had placed a cut along the edge.

Why did I not use my small saw? The answer was simple I have just moved and I did not have it easy to hand.

What happened?

Wile cutting along a piece of wood the knife followed the grain of the wood and slipped out of the cutting path. In the blink of an eye I had managed to cut the end of my left hand thumb off.

Shit if only I had done a RISK Assessment!

To be honest it hurt no more than a deep cut on your finger but it bleeds a lot more!!

I rapped it in clean tea towel and applied preasure, passed the cut off end of my thumb to my wife and asked her to place it in a bag of cold water as we had no ice (Dam iceless freezers).

She very kindly drove me over to Stafford A&E for treatment wile I kept firm pressure on my thumb.

They could not attach the missing part as it was not large enough but the injury had cut a small vain and the hospital was struggling to stop it bleeding.

They wanted to keep me in over night due to the bleeding, but I declined the offer and decided to opt for the huge tight bandage and a revisit to the orthopaedic ward next morning.

It is now bandaged up and sore, It was totally my fault. Guess I will give the knife a little more respect in the future.


Pic Ref 18/11/2009