I went to A&E with an infected abscess (in my genitals, not nice). The staff and nurses that cared for me on the first and second night were nice. While I did have to show a lot of different people, and information about what treatment is received and when was varied and scarce, my symptoms were at least being listened to and documented.
All that changes the moment I went to radiology. The nurse was offhand and the radiologist was constantly judgemental about how I might have picked up the infection, or otherwise dismissive of me.
The surgeon finally arrived later that day, with an assistant, and had not even read the radiologist's results, nor my chart. In the two conversations we had, they seemed to have absolutely no interest in listening to my symptoms, nor in reading about them. I'm not exactly sure how they expected to perform any surgery without knowing anything about the infection.. This turned into an argument. When they left, the assistant also felt the need to add to the radiologist's judgemental attitude and have a dig at me.
I discharged myself and got antibiotics from my GP. I did not need surgery anyway. Somebody also stole my mum's phone charger.
"Feeling judged by staff"
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