Saint James’s Hospital

the nurses and doctors are great, well most of them. But the HSE is a bloody disaster and a drain. Its like they throw good money away after bad. Heat on full and windows open yet no money for surgeries, equipment and lives saving drugs. The café’s are over priced as is the parking and the staff are charge extortionate prices for both. Where the hell they are going to park when the new children’s hospital is built here. Not sure if there is a methadone clinic here but around the front door is a bit scary at certain times of the day. Even the staff advised not to go out there to sit. Im here a lot as a patient and will be for the next 2 years.

The hospital itself is great but the Accident and emergency department is a disgrace, came in with an abnormal heartbeat, spent 8 hour waiting and in that time only saw two nurses and no doctor, I was told there were 3 people in front of me 6 hours in and 2 hours later there are still 3 people in front of me. considering I was well past worried as it was the horribly rude receptionist made me feel 10 times worse, that said after another 2 hours the second receptionist was much more helpful

10 hours of waiting in the emergency room and we haven’t seen a doctor… Staff couldn’t care less you stay here waiting all night long, and there isn’t even a place to drink water.
When we asked after 8 hours of waiting if we should just go home and come back later they said it was useless because we should see a doctor shortly.
After 10 hours of waiting we gave up and when back home unassisted. we had to pay 100 euros nonetheless. Never again,

You know the story. You leave the club with your friend after a great night of dancing and flirting. You walk home full of laughs when suddenly you pause and turn to each other and say:
«Is that a naked man running?»
And viola you are lying on the ground and when I came to my friend was passed out with a bloody mouth on the street. Thankfully some good Samaritans took control of the situation.
The ambulance man was fantastic and so where the nurses and doctors as they got a great kick out of the fact that a naked man ran us over.
The receptionist was awful, extremely rude, unpleasant woman that got an attitude with my dazed friend because she had the temerity to spell her last name for her:
«I can spell you know!»
Of course I lost it with her and told her to learn some manners. A fascinating insight into the Irish psyche as the place was populated with mainly drink related incidents. Something very socially vacant about that. I wonder will Diageo pick up the bill?
My friend is grand yet my ass has a huge bruise on it which makes sitting rather annoying. Beware of a naked lunatic running the streets of Dublin who has a tiny package. Complete eejit.

As far as I can tell this hospital gets a bit of a bashing in the reputation stakes. I had to come here once for an x-​ray and I have to say my experience was absolutely fine. More than fine actually. I came in with no appointment and a letter from my doctor and I didn’t have to wait longer than an hour to be seen. The whole thing was painless (aside from my minor injury!). They contacted my doctor subsequently with the results and that was it. Having said all that, a friend of mine was at the A&E here recently and had a pretty awful time. I guess it depends on what you go in there for.

Thankfully I’ve just been here as a visitor rather than a patient, but James has been really well redesigned and refurbished. I got to know it quite well as my granddad was here for over a year. They have quite nice areas in the entrance Atrium for food as well as a newsagents and gift shop, which at least acknowledges that sometimes people spend a lot of time here as ‘visitors’ and need access to some amenities.
I have to stay my experience of the staff was very positive and they were extremely helpful and good. Can’t say the place is perfect. Granddad did get the MRSA bug twice! But how much of that has to do with the hospital and how much of that has to do with the nature of viruses I couldn’t possibly say.
Still though I found myself impressed with their improvements as well as their care

Following an unfortunate accident in college one day, I had to accompany a friend here. In an ambulance, which was cool, though my joy and raging through the streets of Dublin with the siren blazing was tempered somewhat by the condition of said friend. Either way, considering her arm was ballooning out to the size of a hockey ball, they did see her fairly quickly and took really good care of her.
However, James’ is located in such a lovely area that the waiting room tends to fill with drunks and homeless people fairly quickly of an evening. Not that I have an issue with them per se, but when I’m trying to avoid the puddles of vomit on the floor, I start to get a wee bit grossed out.