I get that a&e is busy, but was not expecting to be spoken to so rudely

You shouldn't have left A&E in the first place, but I am sure you know that now! I hope you get it sorted.

So rest basically?

upset the overworked nurse didnt say please and thank you.

Please don’t be stupid. The nurse was rude and dismissive. It was not about her saying please and thank you. I don’t care how overworked she is, she did not need to behave like that.

I have been a doctor for 30 years. I am from the era where we did 56 hour shifts with no sleep. Not once have I been rude to a patient. Because that’s unprofessional and disrespectful.

Like many on here you are sooo desperate to prove the OP wrong and nitpick. But if you read all the posts properly, you’ll be embarrassed and see how stupid you are being and how wrong you are.

@Lexibletheflexible I could just about bear weight but it was extremely painful. It is an incomplete fragility fracture due to known osteoporosis (one of the big red flag on my medical records, along with a historic pelvic fragility fracture). After diagnosis I was non-weight bearing for 6 weeks, now partially weight bearing 14 weeks in. Still may require surgical fixation depending on results of repeat MRI. As mentioned I had been walking on it for 10 days prior.

i think the OP needs to take some ownership also, she chose to leave A+E despite thinking her condition was bad enough to be there. She wasn’t sent away by the nurse, she left because she was upset. That’s all her.

Oh no, I know you've had some shit flung at you but please let us know how you get on. Hope it's all OK.

Red flags signs for a hip fracture would be an inability to bear weight. Klinik would stop your assessment and tell you to go to a+e if you had such symptoms.

What did they do once they knew your hip was fractured? Did you have surgery? What was the treatment?

The OP had recently used ear plug so had possibly pushed it further in, also might have an infection now

Well yes that's exactly what happens. If you get a splinter it may work it's own way out or be removed but if it is left it will be fine for a while but then it will start to fester and infection will develop

you don’t know that I know nothing about the matter, it could be my specialist area. And looking at the responses, there are a few a+e staff (at least they claim) agreeing with me in saying that OP should’ve waited to see their GP.
It’s not harmful drivel, she’s got something stuck in her ear and is upset the overworked nurse didnt say please and thank you. she will come to no harm.

it is a shame though that people will listen to a strangers uneducated advice on the internet regarding their children’s health. But just because someone is stupid enough to believe what they read online doesn’t mean I shouldn’t ever give my opinion on mumsnet, I just come here for a bit of gossip and drama

Did you not read her update? There is blood pooling in her ear now and reduced hearing - that's not a sign of improvement!

Edit: and judging by the increased pain recently she likely has an infection now which can quickly make a condition much worse

Ok, the original post says A&E quite a few times, hence my confusion. Thanks for clarifying

As I said above, I had red flag signs for a hip fracture which needed ruling out (or as it turned out, in). I used the appropriate channel for my GP which is online triage. The system uses AI to offer you an appointment with a practitioner it deems the most appropriate. The next step is to call if you believe your problem is more urgent. When I did that it initially offered me a two week wait for appointment with a physio, and when I called to say I felt I needed to be seen more urgently, they simply said there were no other appointments and I would have to wait. So unfortunately it simply does not work like that everywhere. My practice is in special measures and it is the only (giant) practice in the local area.

So mysteriously, despite being in there for ages, the last 24hrs has done all the damage..

The nurse wasn't right though, OP is back in the exact same place today because that's where she was supposed to go, only now her condition has worsened and possibly caused damage to the ear drum.

I can guarantee you if I had rung GP reception and told them I had a foreign body stuck in my ear that was now causing pain and bleeding I would have been told to go to A&E. Which is exactly what happened to OP this morning when she contacted her own GP.

And risk going deaf in one ear?? A&E is for cases like OP's not just major accidents. In developed countries like ours, it should be entirely reasonable to expect being seen and treated for something that poses a risk of major and avoidable complications.

In our area you go through A&E and they redirect as appropriate. Up to the beginning of this year we had no urgent care, just A&E and minor injuries. The new same day urgent care centre as well as minor injuries can still only be accessed via A&E.

In an emergency? If you want to speak to a particular GP about a chronic issue, then you might wait 2 weeks. Emergencies are seen same day. You wont call up with signs of an acute chest infection and be put off an appointment. And if they really couldn't fit you in, they'd refer you to the OOH GP at the local hospital.

As I said, I've heard various people saying this and then you call their GP for them with an acute medical complaint and they are seen by the next day, so... I'm sceptical.

Makes no odds. I used to live in one years before things were at current level of bad Even in the early 90s it' was known that by the time you got appointment to see the GP. You would either be better , in hospital or dead

What might have something to do with it is that I live in a Labour constituency. I know my family members who do not have really shoddy specialist healthcare. Mostly locum GPs who do not understand what they can and cannot do.

I was adding to your comment to the poster you were replying to. They suggested over the counter pain relief which is very temporary and doesn’t solve the problem. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.x

Agree. It’s drivel. Two week wait for a face to face appointment with a GP here and I can pretty much guarantee that for something like this, if I’d rung at 8am for a phone appointment, the receptionist would have redirected me to A&E - I wouldn’t have got near a GP !! The problem seems to be that each area of provision seems to be protecting it’s own services and the patient is caught in the middle every time because it’s not clear how to access appropriate care.

Don’t overthink this, you know you did the right thing, that is all that matters, don’t sweat the small stuff. She was possibly (probably!) stressed and it’s not personal.
Hope you are feeling better, it sounds painful!

@Lexibletheflexible different GP surgeries work differently though.
Mine wouldn't send you directly to x-ray.
They'd send you to A+E or Minor Injuries/Urgent Care to organise the x-ray.
So yes.... I wouldn't waste time with my GP because it is literally adding in an extra step.