Current Events > Mother waits 2 hours with her sick baby while doctor rode a unicycle.

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Tmaster148
07/21/18 7:04:29 PM
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1501522/I-waited-with-my-sick-baby-for-two-hours-as-doctor-rode-unicycle-on-the-ward.html

A mother spent two hours waiting with her sick baby on a hospital children's ward while the doctor they were due to see was passing in front of them on a unicycle.

After Paula Dadswell complained, she received a letter from hospital managers assuring her that in future all unicycling on the ward would be restricted to "special occasions".

Miss Dadswell, 33, had taken her six-month-old son James to South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields, after he fell ill.

As they waited to be seen, she watched the young doctor practising his one-wheel feats up and down the corridors of Ward 12 as nurses looked on.

He eventually put down the unicycle, picked up his notes and walked over to assess James's condition. Miss Dadswell said she told him: "You must be joking."

"His face went bright red. We had been asking for someone to see James for two hours and we had even told the doctor that he probably shouldn't be cycling around in case he hurt someone," she said.

Miss Dadswell lodged a formal complaint about his behaviour with the main reception of the hospital and received a letter of apology later that week.

The trust wrote: "All staff have been informed that such activities are to be confined to specific events, eg parties, fund-raising activities etc.

"As a children's ward, we strive to combine professionalism with an air of informality and fun aimed at putting children at ease. I accept on this occasion that we did not succeed in achieving this compromise."


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Miss Dadswell said: "We asked the doctor what he thought he was playing at, and he said he had not had the unicycle very long and was trying to learn how to ride it.

"It was as if that was more important to him than his job. There were no other children for the doctor to be entertaining; he was simply messing around with the nurses."

James's father, Alan Dukes, said his son was later diagnosed with an ear infection by the family GP.

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NeonOctopus
07/21/18 7:05:10 PM
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BalisticWarri0r
07/21/18 7:08:58 PM
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What was wrong with the baby?
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ModLogic
07/21/18 7:09:15 PM
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Tmaster148
07/21/18 7:09:48 PM
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BalisticWarri0r posted...
What was wrong with the baby?


Ear Infection
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Tappor
07/21/18 7:11:09 PM
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ModLogic posted...
boohoo 2 hours the whole world must revolve around her baby

lol
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Kombucha
07/21/18 7:11:19 PM
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ModLogic posted...
boohoo 2 hours the whole world must revolve around her baby


yeah seriously

couldn't she just have another baby if something went wrong? sheesh
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Chicken
07/21/18 7:13:16 PM
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If youre on the job, do your fuckin job. If you want to get paid to ride a unicycle, join the fucking circus.
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ModLogic
07/21/18 7:14:37 PM
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Kombucha posted...
ModLogic posted...
boohoo 2 hours the whole world must revolve around her baby


yeah seriously

couldn't she just have another baby if something went wrong? sheesh

or the fool could have went to a gp and not act as if the child just got shot and needed to go to hospital emergency lmfao.
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Vicious_Dios
07/21/18 7:15:21 PM
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Stupid ass doctor.
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Tmaster148
07/21/18 7:16:26 PM
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ModLogic posted...
Kombucha posted...
ModLogic posted...
boohoo 2 hours the whole world must revolve around her baby


yeah seriously

couldn't she just have another baby if something went wrong? sheesh

or the fool could have went to a gp and not act as if the child just got shot and needed to go to hospital emergency lmfao.


I did edit my post with an extra line from the article you might have missed.

James's father, Alan Dukes, said his son was later diagnosed with an ear infection by the family GP.

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Vicious_Dios
07/21/18 7:17:36 PM
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Chicken posted...
If youre on the job, do your fuckin job. If you want to get paid to ride a unicycle, join the fucking circus.


Please understand that the doctor hasn't been on one for a very long time.
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PepperoniMaster
07/21/18 7:20:12 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0" data-time="

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CharlesBronson
07/21/18 7:31:45 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Only in America

it's in the uk you idiot
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hockeybub89
07/21/18 7:34:43 PM
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I don't know why, but I automatically assumed this was British. And I was right.
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spikethedevil
07/21/18 7:36:49 PM
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12:01AM BST 26 Oct 2005
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Tmaster148
07/21/18 7:51:50 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
12:01AM BST 26 Oct 2005


I didn't notice that. I saw it r/nottheonion and I assumed it was recent. Didn't bother checking post time.
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