To think the nurses shouldn't have spoken in a different language in front of me?

[ColouringTheBrain]

If I start by saying I think our NHS staff do a great job I'm not looking to be flamed, I genuinely want to know if I'm BU.

I had to go to the hospital today, the nurse that initially dealt with me was kind and gentle, also in the room was a colleague of hers ( another nurse). The nurse took my bloods, then went to get another machine, it was then that the two nurses started talking to each other in a different language ( I'm not trying to be vague, I just haven't got a clue what language it was). It made me feel really uncomfortable as it was directly in front of me, whether they were talking about me, or what's on TV, or other members of staff I feel is irrelevant, I felt like they shouldn't be doing it in front of a patient. Obviously I didn't say anything, I wasn't feeling the best anyway, but I also felt slightly intimidated I suppose.

AIBU, or should I just accept it as part of the care?

Two radiologists were discussing somebody I know in not very flattering terms in Urdu - they weren't discussing his case professionally nor were they just talking about everyday gubbins.

He is an elderly white guy in his 70s, not somebody that looks like he speaks Urdu and I'm guessing that they never dreamed for a moment that he could understand them - I seem to remember that they might even have joked about this...

Unfortunately for them he can speak Urdu. Fluently.

He waited until almost the end of the appointment and then gave them a telling off for being so rude. In Urdu...

Needless to say they were very shocked and remorseful and promised not to do it again.

Confuugled- thanks for that anecdote. Good for him.

Not medical but I've also experienced people talking about me in unflattering detail when they believed I couldn't understand them. Interestingly it was in a foreign hotel swimming pool and they were English people who didn't realise that I was also English. I left them talking for a while because I wanted to know what they had to say and then I told them I had understood every word. They were gratifyingly embarrassed but I learnt the lesson about what people will say in front of you if they think you don't understand their language.

My other language is Spanish, so I can never assume that people don't understand me, helps me mind my manners.

I'm a nurse and I think the op is not being unreasonable in the least, what the nurses did was unprofessional and extremely rude.

limited that is exactly what I have been trying to get at the whole thread.
Its not about 'forriners' v English people.
Its about treating patients with respect and medical staff communicating properly.

Unfortunately that doesn't fit in with those who want to dismiss any concerns as racist. Utterly bizarre in this context.

I think it just suits their faux agenda.

To talk in front of someone which makes them feel left out is rude. At the end of the day they are at work and if it was a private conversation they can have it at break during their private time.

Unprofessional then. That's what I said when I complained. The professionals sucked it up Draylon because that's what they were being.