"Fracture Clinic - disappointing"

I attended the Fracture Clinic this morning for a suspected fracture in a small bone in my hand.

I had been referred to Fracture Clinic by Guy's Minor Injuries Unit for an x-ray and told a follow up x-ray was critical because 60% of fractures are missed in the first x-ray and the bone in hand could disintegrate severely damaging hand if there is an un-treated facture.

Registrar poked my hand and deemed the pain I felt was a result of flesh wound rather than bone damage.

There was no follow-up x-ray.

I do not think this was the right approach given the pain in my hand and the difficulty in detecting fractures to this particular bone - all explained in detail at Guy's.

I will get an x-ray done privately.

Registrar was more concerned with having someone clean the (already clean) wound than assessing the bone.

The wound is deep and two weeks old and has been assessed twice by specialists at Guy's - who both indicated it is healing as it should.

The person cleaning it showed no expertise, contradicted all the specialist advice from Guy's, and seemed unconcerned with providing anything approaching sound care.

The room was ramshackle and squalid.

I just wanted to leave as quickly as possible to prevent them doing any further unnecessary damage to the healing skin with their rough and raw approach.