Hospital

[purpleme12]

Did anyone watch this this week?
Really sobering and hard to watch
Quite upsetting and made me a bit angry. All these patients having to wait
And then at the end the cancer had spread again on one of them! So upsetting

[RalphtheMouth]

It was so sad and seemed to me so unnecessary when the Nightingale hospitals seemed to have so much capacity. I know nurses/doctors were redeployed, but surely they should have carried on treating cancer patients.

[tortoiseshell1985]

The lady with the aneurysm whose surgery was cancelled in March, then nearly cancelled again because of lack of ICU bed and equipment failure....

[purpleme12]

It's just shocking really.
Just glad she had it in the end
They seemed so accepting of it all. But who knows how they feel now

[JamminDoughnuts]

it was very depressing and worrying.

[tortoiseshell1985]

What grabbed me was the chaotic planning. I know obviously they were reacting to a fast developing situation but the chaotic decision making at the top just reverberated all the way downwards.

[BobsKnobs]

@RalphtheMouth

It was so sad and seemed to me so unnecessary when the Nightingale hospitals seemed to have so much capacity. I know nurses/doctors were redeployed, but surely they should have carried on treating cancer patients.

Nightingale hospitals were a PR stunt. We have >40,000 nurse vacancies. Who would you have proposed staff them? They were also unfit for purpose as covid causes multi organ failure not just pulmonary. They were no good for ambulatory patients as no bathrooms.

[lazymum99]

I read about what they have done in a hospital in Croydon. They have made a hospital within a hospital so that covid patients and staff are completely separate. They have managed to catch up with all those waiting etc. It’s really clever and should be done elsewhere.

[Toddlerteaplease]

I was more shocked that patients with aneurysms had their surgery cancelled. That's far more urgent than a lot of cancer surgery. I can't imagine how those patients coped knowing that they could die at any moment.

[purpleme12]

I'm just shocked by both really

[tortoiseshell1985]

@Toddlerteaplease

I was more shocked that patients with aneurysms had their surgery cancelled. That's far more urgent than a lot of cancer surgery. I can't imagine how those patients coped knowing that they could die at any moment.

The lady whose procedure nearly didn't go ahead, the consultant said she was booked up right through December so if the procedure hadn't gone ahead that day...

[Sertchgi123]

Should be compulsory viewing for everyone.

[purpleme12]

I don't know why I watch really
It's so hard watching

[Toddlerteaplease]

Couldn't understand why they kept that lady in hospital waiting for her op. When she's come in with an unrelated problem in the first place. She'd have been better waiting at home.

[Toddlerteaplease]

I must admit that it really irritates me that cancer gets prioritised above everything else, when other conditions are equally as serious/ life threatening.

[Torvean32]

@Toddlerteaplease

I must admit that it really irritates me that cancer gets prioritised above everything else, when other conditions are equally as serious/ life threatening.

Without being argumentative which disease should they take money from cancer for?

[Toddlerteaplease]

There are loads of other serious illnesses, cystic fibrosis, MS, MND. Etc. I'm not saying they should take money from it. Just not prioritise it over everything else.

[purpleme12]

Poor Betty :-(

[purpleme12]

Quite an interesting watch this week
I cried at the end when Mr Tang was saying he saw his mum when he was unconscious 😢

[RalphtheMouth]

Me too @purpleme12. Also when the post office owner left hospital and saw his wife in reception at the hospital, and they still couldn’t hug one another. So sad.

[purpleme12]

(sad)

[TOWGA]

I just cried watching this!

[RalphtheMouth]

So sad

[purpleme12]

It's too much

[EachandEveryone]

I bawled my eyes out tonight

[lazymum99]

Not sure whether watching this is good for me. Go into hospital because of a fall and die alone from Covid.