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Socialized medicine: Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards
The Telegraph ^ | 10/6/2012 | Laura Donnelly

Posted on 10/06/2012 2:34:17 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today.


There were 558 cases last year where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a
state of severe dehydration in UK hospitals

The death toll was disclosed by the UK Government amid mounting concern over the dignity of patients on NHS wards.

They will also fuel concerns about care homes, as it was disclosed that eight people starved to death and 21 people died of thirst while in care.

Last night there were warnings that they must prompt action by the NHS and care home regulators to prevent further deaths among patients.

The Office for National Statistics figures also showed that:

* as well as 43 people who starved to death, 287 people were recorded by doctors as being malnourished when they died in hospitals;

* there were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals;

* 78 hospital and 39 care home patients were killed by bedsores, while a further 650 people who died had their presence noted on their death certificates; * 21,696 were recorded as suffering from septicemia when they died, a condition which experts say is most often associated with infected wounds.

The records, from the Office for National Statistics, follow a series of scandals of care of the elderly, with doctors forced to prescribe patients with drinking water or put them on drips to make sure they do not become severely dehydrated .

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association said the statistics were a grim and shaming reflection of 21st century Britain.

"These are people's mothers, fathers, and grandparents," she said. "It is

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dehydration; euthanasia; healthcare; heartattack; hospitalnegligence; moralabsolutes; nhs; nih; obamacare; pneumonia; prolife; readmittance; socializedmedicine; starvation
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To: cripplecreek

We need another Nevil Shute today! Thanks for the capsule reviews — maybe some younger FReepers will tune in to Shute!


21 posted on 10/06/2012 4:18:56 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Obama better hope a Kicked Ass is covered under Obamacare. -- Dennis Miller re debate 1)
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To: pops88

Like so much of socialism, people let themselves be sold on the ideal vs. the reality.


22 posted on 10/06/2012 4:21:44 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Albion Wilde

He definitely had a bit of an Ayn Rand bent to his writing.


23 posted on 10/06/2012 4:22:44 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: bruinbirdman

Bump


24 posted on 10/06/2012 5:12:45 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: bruinbirdman

Bump!!!!


25 posted on 10/06/2012 5:25:46 PM PDT by PushinTin (Politicians are like diapers, the need to be changed often and for the same reason...)
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To: Snuph

Has Britain ever had a revolution? Doesn’t like it.


26 posted on 10/06/2012 5:41:44 PM PDT by gotribe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV415yit7Zg)
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To: bruinbirdman

people who run such a system should be tried, convicted and jailed and should even be up for charges for crimes against humanity.


27 posted on 10/06/2012 11:03:13 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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To: Irenic

When I saw the tribute to the NHS during the Olympics, I almost did a Elvis on the TV.


28 posted on 10/06/2012 11:04:34 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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To: Nowhere Man
1.7 million NHS employees are quite the constituency, civil servants all.

Talk about paying for votes.

yitbos

29 posted on 10/06/2012 11:31:53 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: bruinbirdman

Despicable and coming here if Obama is reelected.


30 posted on 10/06/2012 11:41:13 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: pepperdog

Funny that the media has not picked up on that little bit of information. No Sir! No real information.


31 posted on 10/07/2012 6:01:54 AM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: BykrBayb

:-(


32 posted on 10/07/2012 8:41:40 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

Socialists don’t have a clue about the value of life. They’ll kill their own grandmothers for a morsel of cheese.


33 posted on 10/07/2012 2:36:33 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

They only value their own lives, and even then, only when they can feel that they are in control. Years ago I read a book about the suicide/euthanasia movement (can’t remember the author, you’d know) and the primary reason these people want legalized suicide is because they want to be in total control of when they die.

And of course, when “other” people die.

They are pure, unadulterated Evil.


34 posted on 10/07/2012 3:15:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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