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The Health Care Professionals' Lounge: if you've had a bad day, are sick of your job and need to vent, the lounge is open!

284 replies

Jacksmama · 05/05/2009 16:12

On another thread, a few of us who work as health care providers (of any sort) were talking about having days at work that make a career as a waitress or grocery cashier sound very appealing... so, patterned on the One-Child Tea Room (which, btw, is open to anyone regardless of how many children you may have), here is The Health Care Professionals' Lounge.

Being something of a Room of Requirement, The Lounge has squashy sofas, a bar stocked with booze of all kinds, an Aga for tea, coffee or hot choc, and a pantry/ fridge for nibblies or full meals. Calories don't count here, neither does trans-fat, or food allergies, and there are no hangovers the next day.

Come on in and relax. There is only one rule here: no fisticuffs. We are here to vent and talk about the assorted difficulties of our jobs. If you're a patient, please remember that we give large amounts of our time and of ourselves to health care, and work within the limitations and the frustrations of the health care system (wherever we may live). Our jobs are rewarding but also exhausting, and we frequently question not only the system but also ourselves. If you've received bad care, please speak to the person responsible, or start another thread - this is not the place for it. We're here with our hair down (or up in curlers, or slathered in a masque) and our feet up. If necessary, we will borrow Mellors from the Tea Room to have trouble-makers firmly and politely ejected.

Cheers!

OP posts:
thumbwitch · 06/05/2009 14:34

tree, that's outrageous! I used to work at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford - we had parking permits when I was there and free parking, but shortly after I left they contracted out the parking and everyone had to pay to park. Wasn't that much though, I think it was only £3.50 per day - but it's still the principle that counts! I've always been lucky and missed the pay-to-park-at-work scenario - just as well!

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 15:00

oi, dragon, what was that you were saying on another thread about having ding-dongs ??

I was nice to you on there (I think )

you can go off people you know.......

nevergoogledragonbutter · 06/05/2009 16:13

hey, i'm a physio too y'know!
i don't do on call anymore though.
I'm sure what you do is very important

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 16:20

hexackly, we physios should stick together

nevergoogledragonbutter · 06/05/2009 16:31

i hate physios

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 16:34

actually, so do I

pinksancerre · 06/05/2009 16:35

Can I come in... ok day today, just busy driving round my patch between patient getting stuck behind every slow moving vehicle in the county including a one of them lawnmower things!

Just cake for me... have to drive ds to football shortly

nevergoogledragonbutter · 06/05/2009 16:37

i should've noticed at uni, but no i carried on in the hope it was just a bad year.

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 16:37

hello pink, pull up a pouffe

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 06/05/2009 18:33

Well shift was as bad as I expected. No sign of a Dr after lunchtime so the five women we had in the assessment centre couldn't be seen. So when I left at tea time the women were still there and had been waiting for 5 hours, plus a waiting room of women who we had nowhere to put as all the rooms were full. Lots of other women ringing up and needing to be assessed but us saying well you can't come in now as we have no rooms or Drs. And 8 hours of grief over something that I have no control over.

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 19:59

< pours stripey a glass of vino >

< tidies round a bit, don't want jacksmama to come back and find the place a mess >

Juwesm · 06/05/2009 20:25

Can I be the first pharmacist to hit the lounge? I've got no gripes though, as also on mat leave, and not missing the hospital one jot!

I come bearing a 3-week old. Perhaps Mellors could dunk my HobNobs in my tea for me, as my arms are otherwise occupied clamping said baby to breast?

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 20:30

dragon, we are nowhere near each other I think (hope)

would hate to be outed on here

treedelivery · 06/05/2009 20:31

Good evening loungers.

Hello to Juwesm

treedelivery · 06/05/2009 20:33

Hello to Pinksancerre too. Welcome to our lounge.

All furniture is carefully vetted to ensure it is not nhs green, pink or blue. You know the ones I mean.

BooRadders · 06/05/2009 20:45

< Comes in wearing dark glasses and pretends to be GP after AnyF and Nevergoogle's comments>

Oooh, I'm new around here........may iI help myself to a glass of ChateauNeuf?

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 20:50

do you like physios then boo?

some of them are really rather annoying, dontcha think

< present company excepted >

BooRadders · 06/05/2009 20:54

Hate them...far too loud for me. Avoid them whenever possible.

And they seem to drink a lot.

What do you have to do to get a refill around here? I'm passing out....

AnyFucker · 06/05/2009 21:03

< lowers voice >

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 06/05/2009 21:16

I agree wholeheartedly about physios being very loud on the whole too.

I'm an exception to the rule though, just sitting here quietly sipping my pino grigio (wish I could do that in the staffroom when I'm back at work!)

Boo - give mellors a shout, he seems to be shirking his duties tonight!

MellorstheGardener · 06/05/2009 21:38

Did someone call?

BooRadders · 06/05/2009 21:40

Iwish - I think you should ask one of those other physios to shout, difficult to get heard beside them.

Anyone got his pager number?

Think I'm going to lie back and wait for him

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 06/05/2009 21:41

Boo was needing a top up Mellors!

I think I'm first in line for a massage tonight if that's not too much trouble!

BooRadders · 06/05/2009 21:43

OOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!! Mellors!!

You're amazing..........

BooRadders · 06/05/2009 21:44

OK Iwish...since you did ask first