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<blockquote data-quote="GraceK" data-source="post: 320635" data-attributes="member: 47233"><p>Just a few months before I was diagnosed with Diabetes, I was working in a hospital as a temporary Medical Secretary. I had an asthma attack at my desk, not one of my colleagues asked if I was OK or if I needed help and I struggled to get myself out of the office to phone to take my medication and look for a supervisor. </p><p></p><p>Eventually I was gasping for breath so badly that I just left a message and took myself to the Walk In Centre where I was triaged within 10 minutes, placed in a wheelchair, put on oxygen, paramedics called, ambulance called and I was taken to A & E.</p><p></p><p>I had pneumonia as well as the asthma attack and was discharged only because they said they had no beds and they said that I'd probably 'catch something worse' if they admitted me. Hmmm. I went home with my antibiotics and I was really, really unwell. I emailed my supervisor and the employment agency I worked for to let them know the situation. I received a phone call a day later from the agency asking when I would be returning to work at the hospital. I explained that the antibiotics hadn't kicked in yet and she could hear my chest sounded like an old steam engine but she kept pressing me to give her a date. I said 'I'd guess this won't clear up for about a week'. She went off the phone, returned half an hour later and told me that the hospital I had been working for had decided they 'no longer needed me' and my work was being given to permanent staff. I questioned that because just two days before I became ill, my supervisor told me my work was excellent and that I was being kept on indefinitely - so how could they suddenly not need me?</p><p></p><p>You would think the NHS would be caring and honest employers wouldn't you? But they aren't. And I'm a fully qualified and experienced medical secretary who CHOSE to be a medical secretary but my skills and experience are going to waste while the NHS employs people who are NOT qualified Med Secs, have stumbled into the job not chosen it because it interested them, have little experience in medicine, and who really have little desire or the personal skills required to work in the field. And it's all about MONEY not people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GraceK, post: 320635, member: 47233"] Just a few months before I was diagnosed with Diabetes, I was working in a hospital as a temporary Medical Secretary. I had an asthma attack at my desk, not one of my colleagues asked if I was OK or if I needed help and I struggled to get myself out of the office to phone to take my medication and look for a supervisor. Eventually I was gasping for breath so badly that I just left a message and took myself to the Walk In Centre where I was triaged within 10 minutes, placed in a wheelchair, put on oxygen, paramedics called, ambulance called and I was taken to A & E. I had pneumonia as well as the asthma attack and was discharged only because they said they had no beds and they said that I'd probably 'catch something worse' if they admitted me. Hmmm. I went home with my antibiotics and I was really, really unwell. I emailed my supervisor and the employment agency I worked for to let them know the situation. I received a phone call a day later from the agency asking when I would be returning to work at the hospital. I explained that the antibiotics hadn't kicked in yet and she could hear my chest sounded like an old steam engine but she kept pressing me to give her a date. I said 'I'd guess this won't clear up for about a week'. She went off the phone, returned half an hour later and told me that the hospital I had been working for had decided they 'no longer needed me' and my work was being given to permanent staff. I questioned that because just two days before I became ill, my supervisor told me my work was excellent and that I was being kept on indefinitely - so how could they suddenly not need me? You would think the NHS would be caring and honest employers wouldn't you? But they aren't. And I'm a fully qualified and experienced medical secretary who CHOSE to be a medical secretary but my skills and experience are going to waste while the NHS employs people who are NOT qualified Med Secs, have stumbled into the job not chosen it because it interested them, have little experience in medicine, and who really have little desire or the personal skills required to work in the field. And it's all about MONEY not people. [/QUOTE]
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