Quick question for A&E/Hospital staff/paramedics !!!!

[Quickquestionmate]

Do you ever get annoyed at patients for coming in with the same things?

I take part in a dangerous sport (eventing) and have been sent to hospital in an ambulance several times especially for cross country accidents. The staff have always been lovely to me but I was just curious if it gets frustrating seeing patients continually come in with injuries from dangerous sports?

5 a&e trips last year (either from being kicked by my horse or thrown off). It’s not because I’m a hopeless rider- cross country is extremely dangerous and I was also rebacking an ex racer which was challenging to say the least, hence the higher than usual number of injuries! Like I said, all the staff were lovely, but I was just curious from the POV of those staff about if it gets frustrating to see someone do a dangerous sport and continually end up hurt and do they see them as timewasters having to go to hospital so often? Eg other potentially dangerous behaviours like trampolining or drinking excessively, do staff feel annoyed or frustrated at patients for that?

just being nosey here on the POV of people dealing with this.😀

I like meeting people and seeing their fractures/anatomical variants (student radiographer). I don't feel as though I judge anyone really, I like to think I'd move away from healthcare if I started doing that.

No....... (seeing all the accidents has put me off going back to horse riding or motorbikes of my youth though which I would love to do but know my old body couldn't hack the injuries).
What does frustrate me is the people who come in with chronic hip/knee/back pain or other issues that should be dealt with by GPs (ie no accident or emergency) or the so called 'social admissions', families who have tried to access social services in the community but reached the end of their tether so granny with dementia ends up in hospital with no medical reason to be there whilst they wait for care packages or care homes to be organised. Then people complain that operations are cancelled because there are no spare hospital beds as many are taken up with people who don't need an acute hospital bed.

If we all left the nhs after a bad day it would immediately dissolve.

A now retired trauma surgeon I used to work with got frustrated with all the teenage motor bike injuries. He decided to try hypnotic suggestion, so just as I induced the anaesthetic he would whisper in the patients’ ears “Sell the bike!”
He gave it up after one patient came round in the recovery room and announced groggily “I’m going to sell my bike.” Just as the surgeon was punching the air in celebration, the patient added “….and get a 1000cc Harley Davidson!”

PREACH 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

I'm with you stompy!