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"No bedside manner"

About: Wollongong Hospital / Emergency Department

(as the patient),

I had emergency surgery on a strangled hernia.

Unfortunately the surgeon who treated me - in my opinion - was extremely rude, judgmental and just a horrible person with absolutely no bedside manner!

After my surgery they came around with their team of students from university and humiliated me to the point I had to get some professional help with my depression after their extremely rude comments about my weight. Later on, the surgeon ripped open my tummy brace holding my cut open belly in place, to then pull it very tight and say if I kept this on I’d be the skinniest person. They then proceeded to laugh out loud, which was even more humiliating.

A lovely nurse on duty consoled me and told me I wasn’t the only patient to be offended by them, they then told the nursing manager on duty who also came to see me and filed a complaint and advised me to do the same.

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