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"Dismissed by drs and nurses"

About: Sale Hospital / Emergency Department

(as the patient),

I presented to CGH Sale in early December 2025 with severe hip pain. It was so bad I needed to use a walking stick

There was no accident, it came out of no where

After waiting in waiting room for 2 hours I briefly saw a Dr in a room to the side. They didn’t examine me as the bed sheet was dirty. After sending me back to waiting room a porter came and got me to go get an xray. They told me that the Dr said I had to walk??? I was upset because we’d walked past 2 wheel chairs.

After xray a couple more hours I was called back to side room and told Dr couldn’t see anything on xray and they’d get me some pain meds,

After 7 hours I was finally put in a room, Dr checked my reflexes and then gave me 2 panadole and a script for celecoxib

I told them I wasn’t comfortable going home as I couldn’t walk properly. I recall they argued with me and wouldn’t let me get a word in. They brought in the senior Dr who told me there’s nothing they can do and they can’t treat my pain because of some safe script as I’d had a lot of opioid pain meds earlier this year before I had my gall bladder out.

I didn’t know I’d apparently been ‘flagged’ and asked if that’s why I’d been treated so poorly and they agreed. I was so so upset that I was crying uncontrollably 

I was then told that I need to leave as they needed the room for someone else.

I still have no idea what’s wrong with my hip and still need help in the bathroom, shower etc.

I can’t get into my GP until next week.

I believe I was made to feel like a criminal because of my pain and made to feel like I don’t matter 

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