This is the problem with coming into A&E with unspecified pain - there isn’t anything they can’t do. You wouldn’t have got a better option anywhere else - blood tests take time to come through, fastest they can be is a few hours. Same with analysing an X-ray. People always think doctors are magic and get frustrated when turned away without being helped. Doctors have essentially a flowchart - you input symptoms and narrow down the range of potential conditions the patient could have, until you arrive at something. If you’re turned away without help - it’s because they cannot find a condition you could have with the symptoms you specified. People get frustrated when doctors don’t then do follow up diagnostics like blood tests - the reason they don’t is they already know that a blood test isn’t going to reveal what you have - as there’s no known condition that you have that would show up with extra diagnostic steps. Presumably you were staying in a hospital for the sixteen hours - this isn’t really a “16 hour wait at A&E”, it’s “being hospitalised for sixteen hours”. Unspecified pain is one of the hardest things to diagnose. You were likely waiting for a while because they thought you were drug seeking - after that, you wouldn’t have got better help in the best hospital in the world. Blood tests take time. So do x rays - a doctor has to review it and pore over any anomalies, then a team of us will debate over what condition we beleive you could have, before determining what the optimal treatment you had. 4 hours in the A&E waiting room and staying in a hospital bed overnight isn’t “waiting in A&E for 16 hours” - that’s “being hospitalised overnight”. I’m surprised you don’t get the difference. What do you expect them to do? Blood tests aren’t instant. It’s night and there are fewer staff. Treatment isn’t instant. Modern medicine unfortunately doesn’t allow us to treat people instantly, treatment takes time. You’re basically complaining about having the gold standard of medical care given to you. If I go to the hospital and am diagnosed with cancer, and then I’m hospitalised for six months, I’m not waiting in A&E for six months. Just as you (hopefully) we’re hospitalised overnight whilst they treat you. How exactly do you expect hospitals work? When you come into hospital with something serious you shouldn’t expect to leave in an hour - this has nothing to do with the NHS, it has to do with the fact they kept you overnight for a reason. You weren’t “waiting for x y and z”, you were “hospitalised whilst they treated you”/ Absolutely baffled. How do you think medicine works? Blood tests aren’t instant. All of this takes time, not because of the NHS - you wouldn’t have had a faster experience if you went private - but because of how our diagnostic tests work.
I wasn’t ‘hospitalised’ though, I was sat for 16 hours in my wheelchair, in the waiting room with many other people. You weren’t there, end of, so you don’t know how many people came in and got sent home or told to come back the next day or told nothing.They do the bare minimum then tell you to go to your doctor. Very frustrating for people wether you’re in pain or not, to be kept being passed from hospital to local dr then you go to your dr and they tell you to go to the hospital.I’m not one for sitting around and waiting for diagnosis or taking a pill for an ill every 5 minutes.I never go the drs but when I do reach breaking point and seek medical advice, it’s always a let down. And yes, some medication would be a start, just some pain relief but no, not to worry though, I sorted it all by myself, yet again! And yes private is better.Paid private and was sorted within a week but NHS told me it be 18months to see a physiotherapist.Amazing what money can do! 👍🏼
This is the problem with coming into A&E with unspecified pain - there isn’t anything they can’t do. You wouldn’t have got a better option anywhere else - blood tests take time to come through, fastest they can be is a few hours. Same with analysing an X-ray.
People always think doctors are magic and get frustrated when turned away without being helped. Doctors have essentially a flowchart - you input symptoms and narrow down the range of potential conditions the patient could have, until you arrive at something. If you’re turned away without help - it’s because they cannot find a condition you could have with the symptoms you specified. People get frustrated when doctors don’t then do follow up diagnostics like blood tests - the reason they don’t is they already know that a blood test isn’t going to reveal what you have - as there’s no known condition that you have that would show up with extra diagnostic steps.
Presumably you were staying in a hospital for the sixteen hours - this isn’t really a “16 hour wait at A&E”, it’s “being hospitalised for sixteen hours”. Unspecified pain is one of the hardest things to diagnose. You were likely waiting for a while because they thought you were drug seeking - after that, you wouldn’t have got better help in the best hospital in the world. Blood tests take time. So do x rays - a doctor has to review it and pore over any anomalies, then a team of us will debate over what condition we beleive you could have, before determining what the optimal treatment you had.
4 hours in the A&E waiting room and staying in a hospital bed overnight isn’t “waiting in A&E for 16 hours” - that’s “being hospitalised overnight”. I’m surprised you don’t get the difference. What do you expect them to do? Blood tests aren’t instant. It’s night and there are fewer staff. Treatment isn’t instant. Modern medicine unfortunately doesn’t allow us to treat people instantly, treatment takes time. You’re basically complaining about having the gold standard of medical care given to you.
If I go to the hospital and am diagnosed with cancer, and then I’m hospitalised for six months, I’m not waiting in A&E for six months.
Just as you (hopefully) we’re hospitalised overnight whilst they treat you. How exactly do you expect hospitals work? When you come into hospital with something serious you shouldn’t expect to leave in an hour - this has nothing to do with the NHS, it has to do with the fact they kept you overnight for a reason. You weren’t “waiting for x y and z”, you were “hospitalised whilst they treated you”/
Absolutely baffled. How do you think medicine works? Blood tests aren’t instant. All of this takes time, not because of the NHS - you wouldn’t have had a faster experience if you went private - but because of how our diagnostic tests work.
I wasn’t ‘hospitalised’ though, I was sat for 16 hours in my wheelchair, in the waiting room with many other people.
You weren’t there, end of, so you don’t know how many people came in and got sent home or told to come back the next day or told nothing.They do the bare minimum then tell you to go to your doctor.
Very frustrating for people wether you’re in pain or not, to be kept being passed from hospital to local dr then you go to your dr and they tell you to go to the hospital.I’m not one for sitting around and waiting for diagnosis or taking a pill for an ill every 5 minutes.I never go the drs but when I do reach breaking point and seek medical advice, it’s always a let down. And yes, some medication would be a start, just some pain relief but no, not to worry though, I sorted it all by myself, yet again! And yes private is better.Paid private and was sorted within a week but NHS told me it be 18months to see a physiotherapist.Amazing what money can do! 👍🏼