On admission from A&E, I was assigned to a consultant of unknown speciality who focused their attention on any potential problem I might have had with recent vascular surgery which had nothing to do with why I had reported to A&E.
I spent four days being well cared for by ward staff, tested for this, that and the other, had X-rays and was given a doppler scan. I was informed of no results. The only explanation for the consultant's course of action was that they wanted to get advice from vascular services about my condition. Did they? If so what was it?
I was discharged no wiser than on admission and without any treatment for what I'd gone in for and with no meaningful provision for further antibiotics or pain relief.
A visit to a podiatrist the morning after discharge got the problem fixed inside half-an-hour, along with provision of two weeks of antibiotics to kill the infection in my ischaemic ulcer, restore its ability to exude and provide ongoing pain relief. The utility of four days as an inpatient was and remains a total mystery.
"Not being listened to. Having nothing explained. No apparent outcome."
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