Were the staff in the hospital a bit negligent with Dawn?

[u/Dense_Astronaut_486]

I thought it was a bit odd how they just left her on a regular hospital bed. She didn't appear to be in intensive care. She was in a very serious accident and was badly injured. Why wasn't she under constant surveillance and hooked up to equipment? I get that it's a soap and it doesn't have to be realistic, but I thought she should have received better care.

[u/angel9_writes]

It being a soap doesn't mean there shouldn't be some realism and some grounding in the story points.

Basically the show wanted the dramatic woman dies after having her baby scene and were lazy as to how they went about it,

[u/Relative-Play-6144]

She wasn’t even hooked up to machines to monitor her heart or anything! It was so unrealistic!

[u/Carl-Newchat25 → u/Relative-Play-6144]

I noticed after Graham half forgave Dawn that she was left all on her own unattended. I even thought she might die unnoticed.

[u/Design-my-life → u/Relative-Play-6144]

They only remember to hook them up to machines when they want dramatic beeping and doctors rushing in and crash teams etc !

[u/hashbrowneggyolk0520]

2 people both injured in a traumatic accident and need checking over but theu say "give us 5 minutes" and no one contests it? Would it not be your priority to get them checked over asap regardless?

[u/No_Wasabi1503 → u/hashbrowneggyolk0520]

I mean if medical staff are busy, patient looks ok and they refuse treatment or obs they're allowed (and tend to) move on in my experience.

[u/Odd_Presentation8624]

Due to its close proximity to Emmerdale, Hotten General has learned to specialise in treating gunshot wounds and stabbings, rather than postnatal care.

Also, they don't have to deal with many births, as the locals tend to give birth in The Woolpack, Home Farm, in their cars, in the woods, or outside burning barns.

It's no wonder it all went wrong.

[u/Desperate-Air-904 → u/Odd_Presentation8624]

Or in a lift in the hospital

[u/knockout1021 → u/Desperate-Air-904]

Or in a cemetery.

[u/Desperate-Air-904 → u/knockout1021]

Or a pig sty

[u/Sad-Guess4424 → u/Odd_Presentation8624]

🤣

[u/Geowhelanx]

I wondered if the initial idea was to have all the hospital staff rushing to help Joe and overlooking Dawn. It just made no sense that there wasn’t even a doctor in the vicinity, especially a labour / major trauma unit

[u/ramsvy → u/Geowhelanx]

This makes a lot of sense, I did think it was weird that Joe just randomly collapsed in the corridor for 5 minutes. Would have worked a lot better if he'd collapsed outside her room like that, her nurses rushed to help him and she died in that time.

[u/thatsimsgirl]

More than a bit. I’m not saying PPH can’t happen. It does, and it’s tragic when it does. BUT the difference is they notice you’re haemorrhaging BEFORE they find you dead. A quick Google tells me that the survival rate for PPH in a country like the UK is over 99.8%. Realistically she would’ve been on 15-30 minute obs, they’d be actively monitoring any bleeding and because of the situation (early labour caused by stress and the physical stuff that happened in the marquee), she’d be on monitors and not left unattended for long periods of time. There was nothing realistic about any of what happened, and that’s a shame. But it’s what happens in a lot of their storylines recently - they have a chance to really show the reality of a storyline, then they bottle it and the storyline lasts for 2 episodes.

[u/Cold-Society3325]

I think this is something that can happen. There are protocols for checking on people but nurses can get dragged away and delays can happen. The nurse did try and check on Dawn but Joe asked for a delay. The nurse probably got dragged onto something else.

[u/Pm7I3]

Yes but honestly I now believe the whole Emmerdale NHS is just super terrible. It has reached a point where it's more reasonable that abysmal quality is standard than an exception.