Not particularly petty, but my stepfather is currently seriously ill in hospital and getting worse by the day. The hospital staff have been pretty useless (contrary to most of my previous experience of hospital staff) and his condition is deteriorating due to the combination of treatments they are giving him. He was supposed to be in for "1 to 2 days" starting on Hogmanay and they are now revising this every day or two, last night telling him he will be in at least 5 to 6 weeks further than the 3 weeks he's been in already. They also don't seem to be able to notice that his liver and kidneys aren't functioning, despite the fact that we as visitors could see it from a mile away, but it took the hospital staff until yesterday to revise their "your renal system is fine" statements to "your liver and kidneys aren't working at proper capacity". Since he's gone in he has become bedridden, racked with pain and covered in infection, but he was only supposed to go in for antibiotics and water retention treatment. I generally have a very high opinion of NHS frontline staff through my own experiences of hospital stays etc, but this lot are really grinding my gears with their apparent incompetence. There don't seem to be any doctors in his ward, one junior doctor pops in every day or so very briefly, but the ward is essentially staffed solely by nurses and auxiliaries. We have demanded a meeting with the doctor who is (nominally) in charge of his treatment in order to find out what is going on.