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Written by a patient
17th July 2016


I found the nurses to be necessarily rude and confrontational. Some of them were undisguised thugs. And in one particularly unpleasant incident I was assaulted by two of them. The place operates more as a prison than a hospital I was held there and received very low quality care. I was held in conditions where it was too warm for me to sleep and I was given very little access too food. If you are not well enough to get out of bed at meal times you will go hungry. The doctors were high handed and pursued a drugs and shocks only approach to treatment. The side effects of drugs including very dangerous ones were ignored by doctors and nurses. On one occasion this almost lead to my death. The course of ECT that I received was badly botched. The drug handling was appalling and resulted in me struggling to get the medication that I was prescribed. When very serious medical errors where made by doctors they were swept under the carpet. One doctor in particular was very dishonest in covering up his incompetence and behaved very aggressively towards to me to try to intimidate me into silence.

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