Aibu to ask you about your funniest experience or the loveliest healthcare professional you met?

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I want to have some light in the day so please tell me about the loveliest most amazing doctor nurse or hcp in any capacity that you met 💜

The consultant who delivered my baby 30 years ago. Very difficult long birth. Gave me a bed bath at 3am held my hand and brought me a photo of my baby from scbu. Baby was fine. Shoulder dystocia very lucky.

During my first labour, I had the most wonderful student midwife in with me. She told me that her children were now fully grown and off to university and now was the time for her to do what she had always dreamed of; becoming a midwife. I was 24 years old and so oblivious to how much my life was about to change completely. I have an abusive mum so I’ve never known that mother daughter bond but this amazing lady took me under her wing and gave me what felt like all the love and support I needed in that time. She was very maternal towards me and filled that gap in my life that I so desperately needed filled for those few short hours until my baby arrived.

It’s hard to put into words actually, but she just really, really cared. She made what was a traumatic labour into something I could get through as I knew she was there for me every step of the way. I’m forever grateful for her being there that day. I hope I can always show my own children that same care, in their most difficult moments, that she showed me that day.

There are so many lovely health professionals out there! My DD is disabled, so spends a lot of time in hospitals.

There is the lovely nurse who cuddles DD when she takes her regular bloods, as she knows how scared she gets.

The junior Dr who always makes sure he has episodes of her favourite TV show, so she doesn’t get scared during IV.

The receptionist who always remembers her name and gives her a big smile.

The amazing paramedics and resuscitation team who have saved her life on 3 separate occasions and the unbelievably kind nurses who sat holding my hand throughout those experiences

Her many consultants who my DD now thinks are her friends because they are so kind to her.

All the therapists who find new and creative ways to give her the best possible opportunities in life. Including one who got their dad to make adaptive equipment in his shed as they couldn’t find what they wanted online.

The surgeons who insist they stay with her until she’s awake, even though there is a ward full of equally lovely nurses to take care of her.

The pharmacists who, I later found out, had stayed late to make sure we had the prescription that meant we could finally take my DD home

All the cleaning staff, porters and catering staff who keep the hospitals running, and always check in on us and make sure we have everything we need whenever we’ve had to sleep in chairs for days on end.

Seriously, our NHS is amazing!

Again. Related to when I had a baby. I was suffering from pnd and I finally accepted it and called my gp. The receptionist was so lovely on the phone and gave me an appt for the next day (usually never happens... Its Same day emergency or in 3 weeks or so). Then I saw the most lovely gp the next day (im sure the receptionist booked me in with her for a reason) who made sure she s clear she will do all she can to help and what support can she offer. She said I'll have a call from the mental health team later on that day. How've nothing came. The most amazing thing is that about 8pm she called me to tell me that she's very sorry but has been trying to get them to call today and has been following up but they have had a few emergencies. That 1 call when I knew its way past her working hours really gave me hope that things can get better... And they did. She was a locum but made it a point to tell me when she is next in and book me in with her and that she was ready to support in a way that works with me without being pushy (eg health visitor just wanted me to take medication, whilst when I said I wanted to try without medication the gp was happy to try that way). I had never felt that listened and respected and understood as I did with that gp, and it gave me hope that I can be a 'person' again after having a baby, which I felt was really taken away from me through my experience with health visitors.

Thank you op for putting this thread up. It has been cathartic.

I ve a few, a nurse that calmed me down when I had to be tested for the condition that killed my dad after the cardiologist lacked any thought as to why I might be crying. The sonographer that did my 12 week scan and was very through and the midwives I ve met who had great communication skills and even apologised for an extra 10 minute wait which really they didn't need to. Also, a geneticist who again when I was being tested for dads condition, realising that making the choice to be tested at 13 by myself was an adult decision no one should ever have to face so they spoke me like one, it was one of my first appointments in a hospital and i wasn't doing brilliant still 4 years after he died with anything medical and I appreciated their honesty and scientific explanations when others might have spoken to me like a child.

It was worth having cancer just to meet my wonderful Onco. There was no rushing you in & out, he'd sit you down, ask you how you were, & he listened, he'd make notes & give them to you, so you never forgot what he'd said, he always said the right thing, & made you feel that you were the only person that mattered. When I was diagnosed with a different cancer (that wasn't his field), I called him, he told me to come in & see him right away. He got down on his knees, held my hand, & asked me how he could help me. I told him that I thought I was going to die as although that cancer hadn't got me, this one had come to finish me off. He told me no matter what happened everything was going to be alright. I walked away on air & my world was complete. He's been right so far 🤞 Fuckin' 'ell I love that man & could do with him on prescription!

I was at the hospital waiting for my op when an elderly lady wandered into my bay. She was looking for the toilet, I told her it was in the corner. When she came out she was muttering & mumbling about whether she should take her clothes off or not. I'm a regular & thought I was experienced enough to give her advice, so I told her to take everything off, even her knickers that some people seem reluctant to part with. Then a nurse came through shouting "Elsie". I said that she was in the toilet & sat there satisfied that I'd been helpful. Elsie appeared with no clothes on. Nurse was shocked & said "Elsie what are you doing? You're only having an eye operation".