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Blu · 09/03/2006 21:46

What are they like?

DS was in for an MRI scan under total sedation today. Not the most chellenging thing we have gone through, but you still feel a bit emotional seeing your little one asleep on a trolley. The porter started a huge bad tempered row with the very lovely nurses: MRI wouldn't allow a bed in the room, too big, too metal, Ds would have to be put into a cot. The nurses said he wouldn't fit, and that a cot was also metal. Nurses phoned down - child bed fine. All the way down in the lift, the porter was shouting, and slamming his hand down onto the bed head inches from DS's sleeping head - until I gave him a hard stare.

It made me very upset.

then I remembered that exactly the same thing happened after DS's big operation a few years ago - furious rude awkward porter shouting, shortyly fter DS had come round.

I expect they are badly paid and treated like dirt - which hospitals should attend to - but a little customer care training would help, too.

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eidsvold · 10/03/2006 02:10

Blu - that is unacceptable. I would have taken note of his name and written a letter expressing your concerns at his behaviour and its affect on people who are vulnerable - as in not well, children etc. You could say how upsetting this was and made what is a naturally anxious time worse.

NeverSayNever · 10/03/2006 07:39

Am Shock that the porter carried on like this with a child in his care, just wanted to let you know they are not all like this. Both my older DS'S are porters and take a lot of time to put children at ease {prob comes from having lots of younger brothers and sisters} they also go and sit and chat to elderly patients who have no visitors. I would complain he should not behave that way.

Blu · 10/03/2006 14:41

NeverSayNever - yes, I'm sorry to be so rudely general about porters - tell your DS's what a big difference their kindness and consideration means to people like me Smile.

I thnk i will make a conmment to the hospital, actually. Not a complaint, just feedback. What's the best way to do make a point without causing loads of paperwork, burocracy, and people threatened with discipliniary action? I don't want that.

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giraffeski · 10/03/2006 15:01

One of the porters at the hospital I work at is an egomanical k**b too.

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