to have been disgusted by the selfish people at the children's hospital today?

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We were ridiculously early for Ds's appointment at Yorkhill today as I thought the traffic would be terrible due to the pope's visit. DS spent most of it playing on the playpark bit just outside the main entrance.

I was disgusted by the number of people who chose to smoke in this area, right outside the main entrance despite the literally hundreds of signs asking them not to. How utterly utterly selfish!!

Then there was a bit of an altercation when a driver would not move his car off the double yellows on the drop off area to allow the national blood transfusion service emergency delivery van to pull up and drop off blood because the people he was picking up would just be a few mintutes longer. FFS, all he had to do was move up slightly!!!

How do people get so self absorbed and selfish!?!?

omg about the driver not moving his car! thats terrible!

gREAT THREAD!
tHIS IS A QUESTION I ASK MYSELF EVERYDAY. i CAN COUNT ON MY ONE HAND THE PEOPLE I HAVE MET IN THE LAST DEACE THAT ARE NOT SOOO SELF ABSORBED AND SELFISH. tHERE IS NO CARE FOR EACH OTHER AND POLITENESS

OPS CAPS SORRY

Didn't Nick Clegg address this in his speech today!

did your appt go ok?hospitals bring out best and worst in people.

Yup sadly having sick kids or indeed being sick yourself does not automatically make you a nice person.

I have met many, many patients over the 8 years I've worked in the NHS. About 99% are lovely and I would do pretty much anything for them. 1% are not - but I do just the same for them too because that's how it goes

decade

I know exactly where you mean at YH. There are huge signs everywhere saying NO SMOKING. Right outside the door is too close to the windows above, to patients coming in and out and to the play park. If people are so desperate to smoke on hospital grouds despite not being supposed to (I guess parents who are extreemly stressed by child being ill) the could move to a spot thats nearer the car park where its more open.

I remember visiting wee girl I know who was regular hospitalised with asthma and sitting with a girl in bed opposite as her Mum went out for a fag, then came back and cuddled her. - she too was in for asthma. I can't help thinking that that didnt do her much good.

How is ds? Hope he ok

Ds is fine although tested positive to peanut allergy .

Being stressed about your own child being I'll is a poor excuse for potentially making other children sicker IMHO.

At our local hospital the maternity ward is on the ground floor. Lots of signs telling people not to smoke as newborns close by.... People STILL smoke right next to the windows next to delivery suites!! FFS a newborn is most likely in the room and people still smoke there.
By the way I smoke but would never smoke there.

I used to be a cleaner/porter at yorkhill - believe me, there were many worse places for people to smoke than just outside the doors.

I once found a woman smoking in the toilets in A+E - which was next to where ITU used to be. and many many parents standing just outside ITU smoking too. plus all the ones who smoked in the toilets on the 2nd floor - which is where all the really ill babies ended up.

:( trixy. Wee girl I mentioned above that I visited with asthama also has peanut (all nuts), seeds and dairy allergy. Shes now 6 and they are begining to get milder - when she was 2 she had anaphylaxic reactions and was never expected to out grow them as so bad, if thats any conselation :) Is he going to get a junior epipen? Or he too wee and at the syringe and wee pot of adrenaline stage? I had both when looked after wee girl. I got trainig from a nurse at YH on how to administer and on resus, they were fantastic. Let me know if can help with anything, not sure what his history is? Or how sensitive? But my top tip would be wiping tables/chairs in restaurants yourself as wee girl once touched a chair then touched her eye and swelled up, luckily it was beanscene opposite kelvingrove, so I was able to pick her up and carry her to YH where she needed steroids as the piriton I had given her didnt work. If you need any help with food thats safe or anything theres loads of info on here. x

YANBU, some people are very selfish. I think Scottishmummy is right though, hospitals can bring out the worst in people and make them seem even moe selfish, simply because nobody really wants to be there.

Some people are just really stupid

Thanks giraffes. DS is 3.5 and has a history of multiple allergies. He has outgrown all the other legumes, soya, lentils, chickpeas etc, but has always tested negative for peanuts until now. The good news is that he tested neg to dairy which he has been allergic to since he was a little baby, but i'm a bit skepitical about that. They didn't mention an epipen and I forgot to ask as i was so surprised by the test results.

Fiofio, that definitely didn't apply to the bloke who saw me giving him evils when he got his fags out and hid them behind his back, then lit up when my back was turned.

Yes hospitals do bring out the worst in some people but ffs its not like the dangers of smoking are unknown its just selfish (occasional smoker)

I hate this smoking thing. At my hospital they have designated smoking shelters and areas. They are not that far from the entrance yet last time I went up there I had to walk through clouds of smoke at the entrance. Patients and nurses were both equally as guilty. I should have complained really. Will do next time.

at the bloke not moving his van.

I have seen a woman in labour smoking immediately outside the the door to the maternity hospital before... We actually had to step past her to get in.

Extraordinary but true. Sorry, it's slightly off subject, but it just came into my head and I had to post it.

Dd2 was in hospital for suspected meningitis. On the same bay was a tiny baby with its parents and grandparents, who from what I could gather all lived together. The baby had serious breathing difficulties and the family all had a history of asthma etc.

They all left the baby to be given oxygen by the nurses and went outside for a fag.

I do understand the stress thing, I do, and I used to smoke so I know how that feels as well, but I can't get my head around carrying on doing the thing that is potentially killing your child.

Now the hospital allows no smoking anywhere on site, not even outside the buildings.

It doesn't surprise me.I work very near a huge London hospital and I walk passed the entrance frequently while on lunch. I am sick and tired of seeing STAFF i.e. nurses and technicians sitting on the ground outside the entrance in their uniforms smoking. They even do it outside the maternity unit

They ought to put a stop to staff doing it. But with most NHS employees it's do as I say not as I do!