'Quiet' times at A&E?

[Regulator]

Best way to ensure that you are seen quickly in A&E is to ensure that your other half is a consultant at said hospital and that he is with you when you go in... 

[Domestique]

Best way to ensure that you are seen quickly in A&E is to ensure that your other half is a consultant at said hospital and that he is with you when you go in... 

Or when you go into reception make sure you show your NHS id 

[Andrij]

To bring closure to my part in this discussion...

After leaving work Thursday I went to the Liverpool Street Walk-in-Centre.  They should use the strapline: Service with a snarl. 

Pretty quiet, so seen quickly.  Once the nurse worked up some interest in her patient's issues she checked my lungs - fine.  Then she did some poking, prodding and squeezing (you, at the back, stop sniggering!) and declared my ribs to be fine.  OTOH, she blamed my pain on a muscles spasm, which she described being hard as a rock.  I was handed some guidance on how to handle rib and muscle problems (why do they insist on printing things single-sided?) and sent on my way.

I was glad to learn it was only muscular, which should clear much quicker than damaged ribs.  But after her prodding I was in more discomfort, bordering on proper pain, than when I went in!

- the end -

 

[hellymedic]

 I was handed some guidance on how to handle rib and muscle problems (why do they insist on printing things single-sided?) and sent on my way.
 

They probably don't have many duplex printers.
Cheap paper and double-sided printing can jam and frustrate...