Hospital speak

[Allywill]

If someone is described as being really poorly what does that mean?

One of the sickest patients in the hospital.

Very very ill. What's the context?

Depends on what illness they are suffering from I would say.

Generally means they're very lll/dying.

It generally means they are either approaching end of life, or they are desperately unwell and need surgery / interventions to sustain life.

There very ill

^ this!

its a friend. had a stroke. only getting up dates from family but that was the latest today.

My neighbour elderly, transplant patient years ago was in a terrible accident they thought he wouldn't pull through in and out of ICU. Too ill to move to specialist hospital. Family told to prepare for the worst. He's home now and doing well.

It really does depend on comorbidities, age as well.

Christ, I hope not!!

My consultant described me as this with my condition, when we met a few weeks ago!!

Oh crikey I meant if you are in a hospital bed. Not at an outpatients appointment!

someone in a serious condition, i disagree that it necessarily means end of life!

That they may not survive.
Sorry about your friend, hope they do pull through 💐

Dd was described as really poorly in a&e. She died the next day. I totally didn’t appreciate that the dr meant REALLY poorly/ dying.

Self ds who said poo d it and to who??
Nurse to family?
Doctor to family
HCA to family ?

Depends who said it and to who

I don’t know who said it to his mum. She just said they (hospital) said he was really poorly.

Well it obviously means really unwell. It's hard to say more as it depends on a few factors.
If I said it to a colleague it would mean extremely unwell/ acutely sick.
If someone said it to a relative I would say it means really poorly but it's hard to read from that if there is prospect for recovery. Different people will use different phrases but it would mean feeling or being v unwell/ have a lot going on/ have deteriorated most likely