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  As a nurse (retired) myself I just cannot understand this attitude. Did these people receive no training? Do we not go into the profession with the idea of doing some good? I remember taking an elderly lady into hospital because she had sustained an injury. The indian doctor (who had a very strong accent I might add) told her that if she was not willing to co-operate by telling him what was wrong with her he would not treat her. And this when I was standing there telling him she was demented and deaf and also what had happened! In general hospital staff are very dismissive of people with dementia and even refuse to care for them if the Nursing or Residential home where they live does not provide a carer. This has happened to my residents on more than one occasion.
  I do not believe (from personal experience as a patient) that hospital staff, in general, are overworked. In any case, why should one expect to go to work and not work hard? Too many jobs these days involve a lazy trawl through the day, with frequent coffee and cigarette breaks, and use of the mobile phone and emails on personal business and people who do not have this type of job feel deprived.

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