I believe it depends who you get. I feel sometimes it’s fantastic and that’s usually in the early hours. Sometimes, in my opinion, you get treated like, not another old person, it really is awful. I believe they do the basics of care but it’s not professional, it’s not kind. In my experience, they hook you up and walk away and sometimes you can hear them talk about you. I’ve experienced this a couple of times really bad.
If you get bought in by the ambulance, I believe you get better treatment, they seem to think this is important. If you’re a few kms away from the hospital and you drive there, and then you are called ‘self-presented’ and, I feel, they assume nothing is wrong. Of course a friend can take you but you don’t like to bother a friend.
On the whole, I believe they’re very valuable. I’ve dealt with both hospitals. There’s those times you strike someone that is seemingly annoyed with you. At night when all the other patients are asleep, and they speak to you, I believe, like you’re old and you don’t know anything.
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