St. Patrick's University Hospital

"No Empathy, Dr Sorcha McManus bullying approach, your just past on from one department to another, and leave without any treatment. Awful. Glorified Hotel , which claims to assist mental health . Not"

"First class facility. I was very fortunate to recieve excellent care from Dr McManus and her team over the summer, and was treated with utmost compassion and respect by the nursing team on Stella Ward. I really cant fault one thing about this hospital and credit it with getting me well again. I would give it more stars if I could."

"After a bad brain injury 17 years ago I was sent from Beaumont to St Pats and I was lucky enough to have been under the care of Mick McDonagh. He not only got my psychiatric symptoms under control (there were some compulsize behaviours due to the temporal lobe damage) but he also got my seizures under control. I am now an economist of considerable repute (I topped my class Mick and now a manager in one the biggest marketing companies in the world!!!). Two of my best friends in the UK are psychiatrists - they speak of Mick with such reverence that I know I was a lucky man!!! Thanks mate - aside from an odd seizure here and there my health is great!"

"Excellent service and care to those in need. Vast majority of staff are amazing, helpful people. Dr McManus & her team are excellent. You will always get out what you put in, and this is emphasised across the hospital. All the support is there for the taking. You will be supported through the in patient and outpatient process. I don't recommend remote care until you've spent some time in the hospital. It should be an option for when you are finishing up care so that you have full understanding of the hospital and it's support when at home."

"So called 'doctor' Marie Naughton of the Temple ward. If you are admitted to this hospital you will not be treated by her with dignity and respect. You will be treated with extreme suspicion and hostility in a cold and punitive "medical" model. You will feel and be subjugated. You will be spoken to and treated as if you are not even a human being, as if you are an inanimate object. Your basic human needs, including your sense of security, will be disregarded, neglected, and abused. You'll be met with extreme condescension and will be gaslit and manipulated. Your humanity will be trod upon. You will be systematically dehumanised and your whole sense of self will be shattered. You will be spoken at in such an officious, highhanded manner, you'll feel as if you are back in primary school being spoken to like a child, or being cross examined in the witness box. She has absolutely no understanding of the nuances of people, of how to talk to people, of how to deal with people. I have been left profoundly demoralised and traumatised by this so called human being and it still haunts me to this day. You will be left psychologically, spiritually and psychically damaged. This person uses fear to control people in a very deliberate and calculated manner. The coldness with which I was dealt with by this person was absolutely chilling. I've had warmer, more cordial, and more humane interactions with Gardai, even in bad situations. It is completely unacceptable that anyone would behave like this or treat people like this. The worst "person" I have ever met. Not a shred of humanity. Triggered a deeply dangerous crisis in my whole entire life. Behaves as if having a medical degree means that every thought that enters her head is objective fact and her word is gospel. You'll be judged and your honesty and integrity will be attacked. This person is completely unsuited to this line of work. Anyone as socially inept and lacking in compassion for human beings as this should NEVER be working in psychiatry with severely vulnerable people, particularly with such a backward, punitive, hostile, abusive, medieval mentality. Patronising and alienating. An extremely invidious, hateful woman. A bully. Nurse Ratchet. This entire situation deserves national exposure and needs to be subject to an external review."