"Hospital horror"

The first 2 nights of my recent stay were fantastic, the staff being very helpful under what I believe to be great stress and understaffed conditions.

Then it all changed, I noticed that once my mood and symptoms were getting better, everything got worse. To the point in which if asked for help, (etc" I'm in serious pain"), I would be told  it would be in 10 minutes. 4 hours later I might even a chat. If that. I felt that the patients in my room were vulgar, racist, aggressive and down right rude

EG. "that ******* young white fell next to place their music all night long."

(actually, I played mindfulness white noise on my noise cancelling earphones.)

I was called anything from one slur to another, I am neither indigenous nor Jewish. I was told to shut up and laugh it off.

The food, which knowing I wouldn't receive great things from a hospital, I felt would probably give Jetstar airplane food 3 Michelin stars by comparison.

The bathrooms are disgusting in my opinion. Felt that taking a shower would make me dirtier.

The last straw was that at asking all day for a physician about see me about referral to a certain private hospital, I never received one. Since then my 4 person room seemingly turned in a makeshift office and training room. I'm trying to avoid an abusive (violent, emotional and financial) relationship (towards me) whilst I go through a breakup and maintain my sobriety, for which this was the key.

Again, whilst some of the staff were fantastic, others I wouldn’t trust to take care of a leaf.

I have nothing but respect for Ambos, Paramedics and nurses, but there seems to be something wrong with this system..

But when you tell your nurse that you are in severe pain and they hold up the palm of their hand and says not my problem darling, you kind of lose faith in my experience..