Posted on 07/03/2012 8:34:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A young patient who died of dehydration at a leading teaching hospital phoned police from his bed because he was so thirsty, an inquest heard yesterday.
Officers arrived at Kane Gorny's bedside, but were told by nurses that he was in a confused state and were sent away.
The keen footballer and runner, 22, died of dehydration a few hours later.
A coroner had such grave concerns about the case that she referred it to police.
Yesterday an inquest was told how Mr Gorny died after blunders and neglect by 'lazy and careless' medical staff at St George's Hospital in Tooting, South London.
His mother Rita Cronin, a civil servant told Westminster Coroner's Court that staff tutted at her and repeatedly refused to listen to her concerns that her son hadn't been given vital medication.
At one point he became so desperate and upset that staff sedated and restrained him – and on the night before his death, his mother said, he was not checked on by medical staff, despite being in a room on his own.
Following his death, a nurse allegedly inquired whether the family, from Balham, South-West London, was 'finished' and asked a matron in front of them whether she could 'bag him up'.
Mr Gorny, who worked in Waitrose and was training to be a locksmith and shoe repairer, had survived a malignant brain tumour in 2008.
The cancer affected his pituitary gland, which controls the body's mechanisms, such as fluid levels. Part of his treatment included a course of steroids to regulate the fluid levels in his body. These drugs, however, weakened his bones and he was in hospital for a routine hip replacement.
Doctors told him that, without regular medication to control his fluid levels, he would die.
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“Free” health care in action.
Someone wiser than I once remarked...
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”
“No, I would think it’s nearly always a matter of affordability when Americans decide whether to buy health insurance.”
Not in my experience when I lived in California.
“Regardless, in the US, one’s method of payment does not, at least directly, determine the level or standard of care the patient receives.”
Why would the method of payment make any difference to the level of care?
Except they arent.
Yes, they do.
This is simply a shocking story of incompetence. But it dosent reflect the NHS as a whole, anymore than many US hospital horror stories mean all US healthcare is dangerous and substandard.
Yes, it was.
Sorry, but Briddish/Yooro death panels are a fetish for people here, nothing else. If you believe that the British deliberately kill people, esp 22 year olds, I hve some green moon cheese to sell you.
Also, remember this is a inquest, and the headline/story is also merely the family’s argument/opinion. The inquest will take both sides and decide what actually happened.
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