Was Cafe Doom sleeping in?

[JoyceCarter]

No, Poole.  And I won't hear a word against them - they've saved the lives of all four of us my nuclear family, and my Dad in his day, and now this.  The views over the harbour are pretty good, too!

[Ed]

Glad to hear it.  It helps a lot, to trust your hospital - there's nothing worse than putting your family's lives in the hands of people you don't trust.  My youngest has to have an operation soon, and I was relieved to hear it would be in Dorchester, rather than Yeovil, or Weymouth and (Risk-it) District.  The latter is an awful hospital - the staff really don't care about the patients there.  I gave them a right bollocking the last time I visited the place  

The ward was littered with blood soaked tissues, full bedpans, and there was an old man literally hanging out of his bed, face purple - head touching the floor.  And all the while, the staff were chatting and laughing with each other at the nurse's station!  To cap it all, they put my critically injured father-in-law in the bed opposite the man who caused the accident that crippled him   Unreal.

[JoyceCarter]

Yuck...  I've heard the same kind of thing about Weymouth from other sources.  A cousin of ours moved to the area and got a job there, and felt as if she was the only person trying to do things right.  Needless to say, she moved on as soon as she possibly could.  I haven't any recent experience of Yeovil, though my grandmother and her sister were both looked after satisfactorily there back in the 70s.  People from Blandford very often seem to be referred to Dorchester (though Poole is slightly nearer), but somehow, we've all always been sent to Poole.  Perhaps the first few things happened because they had specialists in the  particular complaint, but after that, I think it may have happened that the doctor knew the family had been there already.  And once, I had a choice of Dorchester or Poole, and chose Poole for familiarity with the building and system.

You must live so near us - odd, considering that when I first joined the site, I thought you were American!