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Actually the same thing, yesterday I went up to our local A&E with my friend who had been suffering intermittent blackouts and had been generally feeling very unwell for a good few days with a severe headache. In the UK they always fear a flu pandemic this time of year and people are supposed to take various precautions, yet they didn't have the slightest problem putting people coughing and spluttering in a very busy waiting room close together with everyone else, so busy that there wasn't even enough seats, but much worse one person appeared to have real flu, he was clearly very ill with what appeared to be fever and was struggling to keep upright (I moved away from him, but he had a friend or relative with him). After over 4 hours wait my friend was finally put into a "private" cubical segregated by curtains with a trolley bed where there was bits of splattered blood on the wall and over the floor, a waste bin was left open with blood dripping literally down the lid, there was old ECG stickers that had been against someone else's skin on the floor and on the side, the sheets had horrid yellow stains and when I went to the nearby toilet it absolutely reeked of urine and it looked like it hadn't been cleaned for a long time because by the right urinal the urine stains had completely dried on the floor, while it was utterly soaked in urine by the left urinal, I was glad to get out of there so I could breath freely again and this toilet was also there for the patients. I quoted "private" because the patients and visitors next door can hear everything confidential spoken by nurses and doctors, for instance the women next door to my friend was talking about wanting to terminate a pregnancy with various other very private information that I couldn't help but hear very clearly. I spoke to a really nice elderly gentleman on a trolley opposite who said he was 82, he was asking for something to eat and drink, and explained to me that he had been there for many hours and hadn't had anything since breakfast in his care home despite asking on numerous occasions (it was now around 10pm at night), he was finally given some soup, he also explained that he wanted some cream to relieve for an issue with his arm that he'd also been asking for most of the day to no avail. Later after waiting a lot longer and after finally seeing the doctor, a student doctor in a university trainee uniform came in alone to take various blood tests without asking permission since he was unqualified and unsupervised, also my friend has a phobia of needles and specifically asked for someone else to be called, but the trainee continued anyway. He then severely leaked blood all over the trolley bed sheet as well as my friend and caused him excess pain throughout, the sheets were considerably wet with a huge blood stain and he simply tucked it away by folding it underneath the top part so it was just temporarily hidden from view. He then only partly wiped the blood from my friend leaving loads and then vanished. Later a nurse was shocked asking how it happened and she at least then changed the sheet. My friend had enough and just wanted to go home and after a total of around 7 hours was finally allowed to leave, their tests were inconclusive however and they wanted to keep him in for further tests, but they later decided they couldn't simply because there was no beds available, telling him to come back if things got worse again. Throughout the horrid experience I said WTF on a number of occasions, a couple of times in my head and a couple of times with my friend when there was no hospital staff close enough to hear.
