To think people should be banned from taking someone with them to medical appointments unless they need assistance (and then just one person)

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Sick of standing waiting for appointments while one girl sits on her arse with her five boon companions in the waiting room because people can't do anything by themselves.

I can’t believe you actually think I don’t know how to spell the world stupid 😂

Let me help you figure this out - the deliberate misspelling was mocking YOU.

Oh, she comes back after dramatically announcing her departure. Shocking. 😂 And no, I actually did think you didn’t know how to spell “stupid.” My mistake, apparently that particular display of stupidity was intentional. Unfortunately, after watching you confidently insist that people only get X-rays at hospitals because you personally were sent to a hospital for one, I didn’t exactly have overwhelming evidence of your intellectual prowess to work with. You took your own individual experience, decided it must apply universally to everyone, judged complete strangers based on it, got corrected, and then returned from your announced departure to triumphantly explain that “stoopid” was spelled incorrectly on purpose. 💀 Congratulations, I stand corrected on precisely one thing: you can spell “stupid.” Everything else you've written remains a remarkably convincing demonstration of the word.

Go back a couple of years and I HAD to go to my oncology appointments alone " cos COVID"

Meant I couldn't hear much of what they said to me either as they were all masked up and I need to lip read

But tbh I've never had anyone with me at and appointment since

Urgent care? At the hospital generally is imagine. There's x rays in a clinic near us but prebooked routine ines

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Yes, urgent care. 😂 I’m American and even I know the UK has urgent treatment/walk-in facilities, some of which do X-rays without being an acute hospital. My son has had X-rays at urgent care here in the US before that was literally the entire point: an X-ray does not automatically mean someone needs to go to the hospital. And “at the hospital generally I’d imagine” is doing a spectacular amount of work there. You imagine. You don’t actually know.

I spent over a month in the hospital once. Had a couple of visitors take me to the hospital cafeteria ( food much nicer than muck I was served) and the costs. What was wrong with that

😂😂😂 Four laughing emojis and four goodbye waves after you already announced you were leaving, came back, continued arguing, and announced your departure again. Babe, at this point stop waving and just go. 💀 Nobody is holding you hostage in the thread. 👋

Ok ive looked it up . So now I DO know

If you mean an NHS Urgent Treatment Centre / walk-in-type service from Billericay, the nearest practical options are:
Orsett Minor Injury Unit — Rowley Road, Orsett, RM16 3EU. It’s walk-in, open roughly 10am–7pm daily, but it’s specifically for minor injuries rather than general illnesses. �
NHS Essex Integrated Care Board +1
Harold Wood Urgent Treatment Centre — Harold Wood Polyclinic, Gubbins Lane, RM3 0FE. Open 8am–9pm daily.
Basildon Hospital has 24-hour A&E, but for non-life-threatening problems NHS Essex recommends 111 first, as they can direct or sometimes book you into the right urgent service.

Only the hospital is accessible without a car Harold Wood fo xrays but not all it's opening hours

OP; you do something for yourself!

”I am unable to stand for long, is there someone who would give up their seat, please?”

More proportional than banning companions.

There is literally nothing wrong with that.

I’ve never said or even suggested that there is anything wrong with that.

I’m specifically commenting on people showing up with an entire entourage for a solitary outpatient’s appointment. If this is how people manage hospital appointments, it’s entirely unsurprising that people treat A&E visits as some kind of extended family social event.

You make one comment on here, and people run with it, taking it out of context, for pages and pages.

But I suspect people are hungry if they've hung around for hours for appointment ( whether it's the patient or accompanying person) The cafeteria is a damn sight cheaper than other places to eat in the hospital

As toy post, ok I was a patient eating in the cafeteria so under the " staff and patients" umbrella but my partner) or friends werent

Maybe they don't like hot chocolate? (Trying to lighten the atmosphere a little )

It is rather warm for hot chocolate to be fair.

Oh no - how did you manage?!

That sounds chaotic.

After being in A&E for a few hours, I was moved up to the Acute Assessment Unit in a lot of abdominal pain with what was later found to be cancer. A man, who I don't think was the patient, was in the waiting room with 2 children who were running around screaming and he wasn't stopping them. I thought, if one of those kids bumps into me where the pain was, I'll scream the place down. I appreciate that parents don't always have a babysitter but don't let them treat a hospital as a playground.

Did a lot of reading up. Told the oncologist my views on stuff and asked for written information.

Tbh hospitals ( and most places) were a bit crap with those who can't hear well during covid

Sounds like you were well prepared. I hope you're doing OK x

You might be American but you don't know every thing. Where I live, our x-ray facility is at the hospital. I am not lying and resent your implication. We have an A and E department - at the hospital. That's where x-rays are done.

I agree that the Uncle Tom Cobbly and all brigade take the piss but I think your idea that no one at all should be allowed to accompany you unless absolutely necessary is also extreme. I am being treated for cancer and our oncology department encourages us to bring a support person with us to appointments. I could manage on my own but it's nice that I don't have to unless I wish to.

I think this is what the OP is referring to - she isn’t talking about extremely unwell or dying people having their families there.

Realistically the problem is that people don’t use basic common sense or have social awareness. If I had to take a small child to hospital and also have another baby or child then that’s inconvenient but understandable. If my husband has a serious illness and I go with him to find out what is going on then probably reasonable. What isn’t reasonable is going to a hospital appointment and bringing five people who take up seats in the waiting room. Why aren’t they embarrassed to be getting in patients’ way?

You see it on public transport too. Get on a London bus and people will sit upstairs on the aisle seat (because they don’t want someone sitting next to them) and get huffy when you want to sit down. Or they will stand in front of the exit door and look astounded when this means other people can’t get off. Other people aren’t important to them, you see.

Boon companions is a fairly well known phrase. It was used by Shakespeare.

Thinking about TV and films do tend to have scenes where half the cast turns up at hospitals for dramatic reasons. Let's face it that's a lot of people's first reference for all sorts of things.

Some people are brought up to consider others and some are brought up to consider only themselves. The same type of people who disturb neighbours with noise. Or who collect cars in an area with limited parking.
I'm talking about people who treat the hospital as a family day out rather than people who need people with them for valid reasons.