Posted on 03/29/2010 4:41:03 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
Dying hospital patient phoned switchboard begging for a drink after nurses said No
By Liz Hull 29th March 2010
A patient desperate for a drink of water had to telephone the switchboard of the hospital he was being treated in to beg to see a doctor.
Derek Sauter, 60, used his mobile phone to request medical attention after his pleas for help were ignored.
But when the doctor arrived he was turned away by ward nurse Caroline Lowe, who said Mr Sauter was 'over-reacting' and threatened to confiscate his phone.
Eight hours later the grandfather-of-three, who was suffering with a chest infection, was dead.
Rather than offering sympathy to Susan, Mr Sauter's wife of 41 years, Miss Lowe later told her that he could have been prosecuted for harassing the doctor on call.
'My father went into hospital for a routine chest infection, but never came out,' said Miss Sauter, of Thurrock, Essex.
He was admitted to a ward and given intravenous antibiotics and oxygen, but at 8.30pm he telephoned Mrs Sauter, a midwife, in distress claiming nurses were refusing to give him any water because he had accidentally knocked over the first cup he had been given.
A note scrawled by Mr Sauter and discovered by his family after his death said: 'Asked for a jug of water at 6pm and again at 8.30, told to wait for handover. Said I knocked cup of water on floor.'
Some time between 9.30pm and 11.30pm Mr Sauter was moved to a side room where there was no monitoring equipment and, although he was supposed to be checked every four hours, no observations on his condition were made.
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If he was that sick, why wasn’t someone in his family there with him? It is critical that a family member be close by to see that this doesn’t happen.
When it comes to my family, there is no such thing as “visiting hours”.
Nurses attempted to kick me out because “visitors hours were over”. They never did, although I understood they have their job to do. They understood that I also had an obligation to my wife, and never brought it up again.
The ward nurse was probably SEIU. Talk about a cold hearted, controlling bitch. I'm sure she vas chust fholloink ohrders...
Coming soon, to a hospital near you!
From personal observation, some nurses are saints, and some nurses would rather sit on their butts than do their jobs.
Unfortunately they seem to sort out with all the saints ending up on one floor or one specific ward and all the losers ending up on another. Maybe they just can’t stand each other.
Specifically I saw that at one hospital that I will not name. The nurses in the burn ward and on the sixth floor were great. The nurses running the fourth floor were complete slackers and would have left my daughter screaming in agony rather than administer painkillers outside of schedule, without my or my wife’s intervention. No, they weren’t busy helping another patient; they were sitting on their butts behind the desk.
5 years from now in the US...
Just saving the state some money that can be better sprnt on illegals.
or spent.
Educated beyond her intelligence.
She almost looks like my crazy, Obama-loving neighbor who of all things is a psychiatric nurse...and she is a crazy nutbag herself.
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We’re no longer in any position to judge other countries for the inhumane treatment they inflict on each other. This can only serve as a warning to us of what we’re in store for. As a government by the people, we did this to ourselves.
It’s entirely possible that the family was prohibited from being there, although it’s only a guess.
A nurse obnoxious and arrogant enough to turn away a doctor and threaten the family that charges could have been filed, is also likely to be obnoxious and arrogant enough to kick the family out.
Our future under obamacare.
What is the world coming to.
Any illiterate street person on drugs would have gladly gotten this men a drink of water.
Nurse now mean “murdering fiend” in the UK, apparently.
Nurses are unionized in the UK. ‘Nuff said. I have too many horror stories.
It is different there, culturally. The older generation have a saying....”Oh, well. Nevermind.” No one complains. It’s the ‘English way’. Doctors are NOT to be questioned and their opinions are that of ‘god’. I bombarded my surgeon with tons of questions and he was quite taken aback and scoffed me.
My son and daughter-in-law are both nurses. Niether of them will leave a family member alone in a hospital and that is in the US. At least here, they can’t boot you out, although they can try. Truthfully, if you behave yourself, most hospital staff seem happy enough to have family to help out.
My husband was in the hospital a number of years ago. I was with him 12 and half hours a day. I had to go home because I had two dogs, one a six month old puppy. Otherwise, I would have tried to be there 24 hours a day. I was working at the time, but told them I was taking some time off.
Not at Doctor’s Hospital in Modesto. My Dad was recovering from a thirteen hour surgery to repair a six inch rip in his aorta. They ran us out of there at six PM. I pleaded with them to let me look after him during the night. Oh no, they said. We have one on one care all night.
One night after midnight I was sitting at Mom’s house when I suddenly felt a terrible chill. Something made me get in the car and drive to the hospital. I had to sneak in through the ER and finally got upstairs to the “mega” critical care area. There was no one around. I found my Dad naked without even as much as a sheet, not to mention a blanket. I raised hell. Seems they had ONE person caring for twelve in that ward.
Next day came the threats of trespassing, and then the old “were your drunk?”
I LOATHE hospitals, and most nurses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255858/Neglected-lazy-nurses-Kane-Gorny-22-dying-thirst-rang-police-beg-water.html
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