To those lazy twats at the QEII who supposedly ‘cared’ for my grandmother: a great big fuck you. You treated a woman with dementia like crap. I watched the group of you sitting on your lard asses at your station every single time I came in, drinking coffee and chatting like you didn’t have a care in the fucking world. I watched you treat care workers like they were shit on your shoe. When I asked you to attend to my granny’s colostomy, you acted like it was a HUGE inconveinence. My grandmother spent a nightmare two months in your horrible, soulless facility and I thank Christ she was able to live through the horrors you put her through. I’m convinced most of you waddling pigs are in it for the outrageous money not out of compassion. I hope to fuck I never have to be under your so-called care.
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
Better yet, rather than wishing you are not under their care…they should all (and hopefully will) be subjected to their form of “care”, hopefully they will one day understand what it feels like to have a loved one in the hospital, especially when that loved one is not cared for to the degree that most people would expect from a health-care worker.
I’ve met some great nurses at the Queen E, truly dedicated to their profession, but they were far outnumbered by bad ones. My sister works at the QEII as an LPN and has told me on several occasions how lazy and filthy some of these so-called ‘angels of mercy’ were. Ridiculing patients seemed to be their favourite past time. I have great sympathy for the poor underlings in food service or maintenance that have to take shit from these beasts and their brimming egos.
The last time I had to make a trip to emergency I had the most wonderful nurse & doctor [thanks for that!!] – I thought I must have fallen into the Bermuda Triangle of the QEII…… I have lived in this city for 10 years & I absolutely *despise* having to go there – for the most part (not ALL the time), you ARE treated like an inconvenience, not a patient. It’s quite disheartening. But at least we don’t have to pay for shitty care. Directly. 😛
Growing up with a mother with MS, I was in the hospital a lot visiting her. I’ve met a lot of nurses who should have their liscenses stripped from them. The high wages attract people who aren’t genuinely concerned with the welfare of their patients.The worst was one day my family got a call that my mother was dying and to get to her bedside as quickly as possible. She wasn’t dying, she was propped at an ackward angle in the bed and was having trouble breathing. There wasn’t a nurse within 5 minutes walking of her and the only way I got someone to look at the problem was threats of violence (which is very out of character for me.. but hey.. its my mother…)
Hey, Kristen, you made a very good point re the high wages. Many of these people should not be caring for others. When my elderly mother was hospitalized, she cried everytime I visited her. Those twats just ignored her whenever she called out because she couldn’t find the emergency button (she’s blind). Often my mother’s meals were untouched because she couldn’t feed herself and often the tray was out of reach. I will never forgive those twats for making a 90 year old woman try to fend for herself with a broken hip. My complaints were met by bullshit excuses that they were busy yet every time I visited, the cunts were sitting around the nurses’ station yakking between leisurely sips of Timmy’s. Fuckers.
Holy crap..this is the kind of thing you see on TV, on an american network. I can only speak from my experience which recently had froced me into an extended stay…the nurses on the 5th floor of the VG (Centennial Building) most certainly went above and beyond the call of duty and were truly overworked and understaffed on more than a few occasions. Maybe it’s the fact that they are working in the crap conditions of a 100+ year old facility that has them humbled or that most of the people on that floor are near death…I dunno? The thing is you need to complain in an intelligent manner (quite often hard to…do I know), go to the head nurse, then to their manager…complain to the union rep and the nurses association, etc. If you curse and swear you will get nowhere.The beef I have with the recent nurse/Gov’t strike dispute is that the government is completely and openly hypocritical on this issue. Every government employee HAS to be unionized yet it is the unionized NS Gov’t offices who are saying another union should not have the right to strike.
I have a different opinion. I had a paper cut in my eye! Don’t even ask it hurt like hell. I was alone in a waiting room and when I asked when I would be helped the woman was rude. I tryed to find a phone to call my mother and the nurses helped me out and we very kind. I never had a bad experience with any nurse. I had kidney surgery when I was 6 in B.C and I had epilepsy and multiple shots and all kinds of problems out there and I always felt welcome. The IWK was ok too. But at that building I learned why some people loathe the hospital. But the nurses were very kind!
I had a paper cut on my eyeball too. Worst pain ever, even worse than when I gave birth to my son.
Hey…there are 2 James’ here. This could get a little sticky.I’ll have to change my alias.