Quote: Dally "Having spent most of Saturday in two hospital A&E departments, a number of things struck me
1 - Less manual labour I guess, H&S at work being improved drastically
2 - They do, just in established out of hours drop in centres
3 - The Daily Mail reckons it's because there are very few left
4 - Rammed with darkies and immigrants eh, must have been hell. Did you call the Daily Mail?
5 - These cases will always happen and may not be self inflicted. If you punch a dangerously drunk man and rupture his liver, is he there because he was dangerously drunk or because you punched him? Chicken and egg stuff.
My experience of A&E departments is that they do the job they are there for if you really need it. If you aren't life threatening you wait a mandatory 2 hours. I'm not sure if this is a deterrent, laziness (Which there is unquestionably a lot of in the NHS despite them doing a sterling job on the whole) or inefficiency, but it needs to be improved.
Why did you visit 2 different A&E departments?