Comments on: Making The Hospital

By: Isabel Bains

Isabel Bains — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:53:15 +0000

I completely agree with Laura, As a student I think we have been totally misrepresented. The entire blame was pointed at “youths” of today, highlighting worst case scenarios and placing all adults under 21 in an abusive and incompetent category. I do not drink or do drugs, I have never had sex and I am a healthy weight, as is the same with most of my friends, and i frankly find it insulting that it was implied we don’t deserve treatment because of lifestyle choices, when the majority of diseases that are caused by lifestyle choices, such as smoking, long term alcohol abuse, drugs and obesity, are applicable to the older generation as much as the younger.

By: Laura Morris

Laura Morris — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:16:57 +0000

I believe although this series raised some valid points about the younger generation it was a blanket and ill-concieved statement which was put forward. These programmes labelled young people as the sole burden of the NHS and I believe that is fundamentally wrong.
As a 19 year old student myself I know and understand the fact that there are some individuals who abuse the NHS in the ways addressed in these programmes, however it is wrong to argue that these problems relate only to teenagers. There are many fully grown adults who blatently abuse the NHS, through alcohol, pregnancy and obesity and I think the fact this was not highlighted at all was unacceptable.
I believe Channel 4 were wrong in directing these films only at teenagers; it was a offensive outburst to the majority of well behaved and appreciative younger people.

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By: lolita

lolita — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:45:04 +0000

I was a little shocked and frustrated when I saw the programme. I am a mother of two who had children in my late tweenties in a married stable relationship. I had miscarriages before I was able to have children and the care I received fromt he hospital staff was rubbish compared to what they are offering teenage kids. I felt that as an “older mother” they were less concerned about me. When kids talk about victimization, they should think about the resources they are using up not to mention the money they are squeezing out of the nhs without even contributing to it. What is sad is that most of these kids come from a “benefit” background so their parents haven’t contributed either. It makes me sick that when I wanted help the hospital told me there was nothing they could do and I then had to spend several hundred pounds doing a scan privatly to actually find out the problem.

By: Adam O

Adam O — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:58:08 +0000

I enjoyed last night’s episode (Teenage Pregnancy), but I did feel that some punches were pulled. A point was made that caring for teenage mothers is more expensive than for others, but with an organisation such as the NHS, far more context is needed. We wanted to know: how much more expensive is it to treat these patients than the average; what is it that requires the NHS to offer a choice of care options (caesarean/natural; general/local aneasthetic) when the clinicians so clearly favour natural birth or local anaesthetic, if required; how close is the system to breaking point (it didn’t look it, even if the lives of the protagonists were).