took my father to A&E tonight with chest pain he has a abdomal aortic aneurysm we got there at 6.45 was not seen by a doctor till 9.30 then took info and came back that he should have a CT which would be about 20 mins wait just to be on the safe side did not get the scan till 11.50 by this time my father wss getting distressed as he had just lost his wife and thd last place he wanted to be was a hospital,was told would be 40 mins for results they were still not back at 2.00 and we had been there over 7 hours and still no further forward,1 understand there are emergencys coming in but i am sure there is more than 1 doctor for the department we just kept been fobed off with with excuses it is absoloutly disgusting for a 73 yr old man who has just lost his wife to be left for that long, disgusting!
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