is anyone else scared about the NHS after watching the new BBC drama 'Bodies'?

Don't drag us into your private cannibalistic hell!

DUDE, have you not watched CHEF! ????????????????????

well you wont be visiting your local hospital with the utmost confidence, ill say that much.

good drama though. one of the best things the BBC has come up with in a while. my second fave programme, next to peep show.

I work for the NHS and when I'm not at work remain engulfed by three-year-old visions of horrible and needless death so don't feel the need to be additionally reminded of it. Suspect from what I've read in the reviews it's about as realistic as Holby City but I'm sure other non-affiliated people will enjoy it.

my mom is now in an NHS hospital---don't fuck it up, assholes

aw, i hope she gets well soon

me too

Hopefully your mom had a better experience than my wife is currently having. I.e. being left with a drip in her arm collecting blood for ages cos no-one will answer her buzzing to get it out, she's started taking it out herself now. And they've done like 20 tests and not given her a single result of any of them. Keep scheduling her for procedures where she has to fast all day and then they cancel them without telling the nurse, so she continues to have to fast all day for no fucking reason.

My dad's just had a reasonable experience in an NHS ward but I'm not sure he should have been there in the first place as it was pretty much a direct result of a cock-up back in May. I get very angry when people lazily slag off the NHS but I'm not sure quite why communication between different parts of the same hospital is so poor.

Sadly, I now know why people slag off the NHS.

And you are right about the communication, it'd be laughable if it it weren't for the fact that y'know people are sick and need treating and what the fucking hell are they even doing :(

^^This (xpost). I've been waiting for a minor wrist op since May, couldn't make the first date they gave me in August, then was offered something at short notice a couple of weeks ago, so I went in and was about to go to theatre when the consultant said he couldn't do it because I hadn't had a scan yet, which is fair enough. But, I go back last week to see the consultant and it transpires that I 'didn't attend' an ultrasound appointment back in June, which is complete bollocks as I didn't know anything about it. Yet someone, instead of contacting me to find out why I didn't show, instead puts me forward for operations. Makes no sense.

It's pretty fucked up when a student nurse isn't allowed to deal with IV drips but for some reason is unable to get a nurse who is allowed to deal with it within 2 fucking hours

Haha my dad this week received a letter informing him they'd rescheduled his scan for down's syndrome. I hope there isn't a pregnant woman out there that missed out on that letter.

Reminds me I went for a test about 6 years ago and was diagnosed with something that no-one actually told me about until I went in again 3 years later. The doc was like "oh well you have this I see from your notes" well that's news to me.

"morality-less"?

I mean, what happened to Colonel Poo and his mother sounds disgraceful but the grammar here is shocking

Wife's GP just told her to go to A&E because they have no appointments. It's not very fair to blame patients for going to A&E and taking up space when they should be going to their GP if the fucking GP won't see them!

I'm just finishing this, it's been a crazy, depressing and grim ride. Possibly the longest-running Chechov's gun foreshadowing thing ever there in the finale?

As I've probably posted elsewhere it combines my deepest fears: being cut up, administrative error (or error caused by ambiguous communication), plus infuriating politics. (Plus I've had babies). Some of the stuff in s1 would hopefully not happen now as I've always been asked my name, DOB and 'what procedure I am expecting' - but presumably that's procedure now due to a lot of fuck-ups. Other than that I have no clue how pervasive a problem any of this stuff is.

A lot more to ruminate on but would be interested to know if anyone else is watching it. (It's Jed Mercurio btw)

The management bod who never says/does anything except eat biscuits is an inspired character though

NHS is a transphobe's dream.

This article (like the BBC’s) obscures the cause of the long waiting times. It’s not demand or lack of resources - it’s NHS administrators’ decision to ignore medical best practice and maintain a segregated system that takes longer and costs morehttps://t.co/SzuECIRATu

— Abigail Thorn (@PhilosophyTube) August 7, 2023