Like that in our NHS you enter hospital through A&E they take your address and name and date of birth you get to see a nurse who asks you again ( obviously if you don't answer your dead ) then you see a Doctor who asks the same questions and asks why your in there..plus what medication you are taking..they then compare it with what's on their computer..you medical history..( Ican do this on my phone in seconds) Then you are attended to..you have a plastic wristband on your right are with all this information on a bar code.. and red wristband on the left with you allergic details. Both can't be removed only with scissors.
They then decide what to do. Usually put a catheter into your arm and then wire you up to a bleeping machine ..
From then on you are treated usually by two or three so-called experts but you have your doubts as they keep asking the same questions..
If lucky you get treated.. and then go to a recovery ward Not one for your problem but for anyone ..last time I was in a ward of six Brand new ward.. one person had Dementia and he was Barking all night next to him was a chest patient coughing his guts up all night. The same the next but he did sleep.two more one more on my side of the ward the chap next to me in a came they took him away in the night.. Thre nurses on the ward overnight ..they were looking up house prices on the computer I could hear there conversations..
I can go on but just have to say .the African male nurse who came around and gave out medication and checked our monitors was wonderfull listend to our ailing he even told me how to unplug myself from the machines to go to the toilet I wasn't going to sit on a cardboard potty ..later in the day he organised my discharge by going personally to get my new prescriptions instead of waiting.. he even removed my catheter that normally you have another nurse to do that when they are ready..
I saw four different doctors from the cardiac department two wanted different actions one wanted an Xray the other said no..Oh yes I did get a MRI of my head as I banged it when I passed out..
The best experience was the three girl Ambulance crew they stayed with me the whole time Four hours waiting to get into E&E ..
That is the state of our NHS..
TUD