Are healthcare workers becoming more rude and obnoxious?

Have you considered it's you with the attitude.

I'm not sure if you meant to come across this way but you don't sound one bit pleasant.

'some Asian person'.

.yeah ok. Enjoy your Saturday I'm sure it will be poxy as normal.

An inability to tell whethet it was a man or woman suggests there are even more issues

I always find that patients experiance of healthcare is a reflection of their attitude towards healthcare.

Lot of people dont like, not being in control and get aggressive and annoyed as a means to regain some power in the situation.

There is a saying in medicine, surgery etc that goes "Nice patients, get good outcomes" and it really is true. When all the nurses/doctors etc are relaxed and unstressed they perform better. They will go out of their way to go that extra mile for you. When there is aggressive patients or family around, workers retreat into a more defensive posture.

You can manipulate this to your advantage by being really really nice, watching what and how you say things and appreciating that healthcare workers are doing a nasty, stressful and unpredictable job often in less than ideal conditions. They need you to be respectful and patient....

Remember you need them a hell of a lot more than they need you, so give up the macho bullsh1t. Even better go spend a day wiping arses in a nursing home and see how your opinion shifts.

I have to agree with the other posters. Ive had nothing but positive interactions with health care staff. The doctors (mostly) come across as aloof assholes and the processes/procedures seem like they've been written before computers were invented.

But the nurses and front line staff ive met have been awesome.

I find dealing with most of healthcare staff in ireland incredibly frustrating.

I'd be more informed than the average patient and i always have to advogate for myself, otherwise I'd be dead, a couple of times by now 😂

I am not exagerating when i say I'd be dead!

The lack of english often frustrate the crap out of me, even though i am foreign myself. And the fact GPs, for example often are dismissive of what i am telling them...

Consultants on the other hand, I've never had a problem with and find them very knowlegeable and open to being partners in my healthcare management rather than dictators.

I totally get what the OP is saying about his situation, the more you have to deal with dismissive professionals the worst it gets but there is really no way to avoid them

Not only that but manages to insult their gender as well.

I honestly wouldn't blame anyone working in A&E for snapping back now and again. They're under staffed, under resourced and everyone that comes in blames them for it. It's a tough job and the majority of the hurlers on the ditch wouldn't last 10 mins at it.

Two posts in and the OP has proven what I thought about their attitude.

Thanks OP as I said originally enjoy your Saturday. I'm sure there are some more 'foreigners' out there to do your every whim for next to no money.

Of course he's stressed, being a carer for someone with a chronic condition is stressful. Surely some empathy would be more appropriate than offering "solutions".

It seems to be very common among Irish professionals, including those in medical fields, to think that the practice of their profession in Ireland is the best in the world and that there isn't the slightest possibility you might also have a science based tertiary education like them so you need to be talked down to as if you left school at 16.

I'll never forget having an Irish dentist telling me Australian dentistry wasn't up to Irish standards and being amused later when two different ones seemed surprised at the quality of an existing crown in one instance and the quality of an RCT as revealed on an x-ray they were studying, in the other, both having been done decades earlier in Oz.

Just for the record; neither Irish health care in general or dentistry are close to being as good as they are in Australia.

The OP obviously had a bad experience, it's very common in the health service. I dont think Irish people complain enough about bad public services but they should or nothing will change.

People attending hospitals are sick, the only reason they're there is for medical help. Healthcare employees, at every level, are there to provide that help whatever form that might take. Anyone who has been in an ED or waiting for months to see a consultant knows how stressful it is without having any additional stress from unprofessional standards.

We all know there were extra demands on HSE staff since covid but all jobs have some level of stress, and sick or elderly patients deserve professional standards of care and attention. I dont know about others, but it annoys the hell out of me if someone tells me to relax..and telling the OP to put their family member into a nursing home is not very helpful.

Only experience I had with the health service was when my wife gave birth last year. The midwives were absolutely lovely, really friendly and happy to help. The doctors were to the point, firm but professional. The ward staff were absolute wagons - nasty and unhelpful. That's all I have to say, thanks for reading