Emily Smith Emily Smith has Down - syndrome and is an expert with experience at the University of Nottingham. After a visit to the em...
- Emily Smith
I will not come to you because I had to go in the last month in the emergency room when I had a funny turn in the city, and the people I saw were rude and spoke like a child to me.
The doctor in A & E, said, when I had breakfast? I say no, not yet. He gave me no time to say that he met a friend for breakfast later and said he was a "silly girl." I do not know why. I am a woman of 26 years.
Sometimes people in A & E are with learning disabilities are not everything given for pain. Maybe it's because people do not listen to the whole car to see the person. In pain My friends and I feel pain, it is simply not true that we do not do it!
Talk to me
When I was little, said that doctors still do hello to me first of all, I am now an adult all. Talk to my supervisor. I'm a person and my body. I know that does not always speak clearly, so that you can ask the person who me with the help of support from what they do not understand.
I do not like when they use the language of the head! "Positive" results are poor and "negative" is good, I do not know.
I'm so scared, because A & E doctor said he would refer me to see you. I thought I was bad or in trouble. So Eliza brought with me today the problem is acute Learning Link care, but they were beautiful.
I do not even know what "relate" meant, but I clearly explained. She told me it was like an introduction, not a mention. You said that when you introduce someone I used to relate that knew some of the work and some of the best body.
They asked if they call my name and make me feel stupid when I say I'm a bit nervous.
Show - Me
He smiled, and every time I have explained something that had a picture or model, so I knew what was in my body going.
I felt responsible for a change.
The brochures you made me feel, and there were only two of them.
Now I know that it is important not to take my pills on an empty stomach with you, and I promise always breakfast!
They were just great!
The doctor I saw on A & E could actually learn from you. I am glad that I am healthy. Thank you!
What - what you need to know
Talk to me, not my nurse, but you can my doctor for help, asking if necessary
This helps when the drawings are used to explain what happened to me and not use language backwards
My friends and I do not feel the pain that we will give relief from pain, as if it were a person with a learning disability
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For more information Serie Rosamund Snow, patient Editor [email protected]
I thank my colleague Helen Laverty (@helen_laverty), Professor of Disability Care Learning and Hayley Goleniowska (@DownsSideUp), whose daughter has Down - syndrome, for their support.
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