Colonoscopy - terrible attitude from consult
I was asked to go for an urgent colonoscopy and experienced care that left me feeling quite traumatised. When I got into the procedure room, the consultant looked at me and shouted at me for being underweight, saying it would be extremely difficult and painful to carry out the procedure on me. This made me anxious and I felt I was in the wrong, just for being there. Reluctantly, he asked a nurse (who was lovely) to get a child’s colonoscopy tube. He then started the procedure with no warning or explanation and as soon as I experienced a little pain he got cross and told me they would have to reschedule the colonoscopy as I needed to be sedated. I told him I didn’t want to be sedated and asked him to continue. He continued to speak in an aggressive and uncaring nature to me throughout and it made an unpleasant procedure intolerable. I hope that nobody else experiences this kind of treatment. The procedure was moved at the last minute from HRI to Calderdale due to staff absence. I can only imagine that this was the cause of his rudeness / stress levels.