NHS

I have some support for junior doctors, and I do not blame them for striking, how they manage to do the job is beyond me, so many hours on duty but still have to be responsible for their patients from start of the shift till the very end, it seems to me that the NHS at the clinical end is run by staff who are working far to many hours, after 12 hours you have to be tired, then the opportunity for mistakes arises, but nothing changes the work load does not change, I have to say that the staff that are employed as assistants/nurses need good  English, last year I spent many hours in A&E and the wards, people asking me questions they did not understand me nor did I understand them, it is very frustrating. You just have to wonder if you are getting the proper treatment drugs,  I have to laugh about your own medication that you are told you must take in with you, why when they then issue the same drugs from the hospital pharmacy seems a bit silly to me, if you have your drugs with you and you are competent why can't you use your own, I had a time late evening when the nurse came doing the drugs round, she told me that there was one drug that they did not have so I would have to go with out till they got some the next day, I had such an argument over the fact that I had the drug in my blister pack, my reasoning was that I have been taking these tablets for years I know which ones they are I am competent so why can't I take them from my pack after some time she backed down and let me take the medication from my packs.