“Situazione pessima” poiché 12 pazienti rimangono negli ospedali di Cork mesi dopo la dimissione

My uncle was one of those for a few months last year.

He’d gotten diabetes but refused to acknowledge it (he’s the type to fall for conspiracies). His vision started to go on him and he’s legally blind at this point and was hospitalised from the untreated diabetes. Refused to eat anything – nightmare patient.

Anywho, once he was “healthy” he wanted to go back home – despite the whole being blind and practically immobile aspect. So the aunts and uncles sorted a space in a nursing home, but he refused to go for months and was occupying a bed in hospital.

It’s a very difficult problem to solve, especially with a patient who is in denial. He couldn’t be released home, no family could care for him and he wouldn’t agree to going to the nursing home.

Eventually he accepted his fate, but he was occupying a hospital bed he didn’t need for almost an entire year.

It’s an abysmal situation, but it’s not a failure of the hospital or anything, just very difficult to overrule a person’s wishes when they still have enough capacities to argue for themselves.

That’s mad when I had surgery they discharged me so quickly that a couple of hours later they had to call to tell me that I have to go back as my condition was still not stable.