Posted on 03/06/2010 2:08:22 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital.
Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help.
They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control.
The next day his mother Rita Cronin found him delirious and he died within hours.
She said nurses had failed to give him vital drugs which controlled fluid levels in his body. 'He was totally dependent on the nurses to help him and they totally betrayed him.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Obama Care= US citizen? = Pay up.
Neglect already happens here in the US also. Overworked nurses and doctors in understaffed hospitals sometimes have a hard time keeping up with the load of patients.
Instead of throwing them in prison for negligent homicide. Ah, it's good to know the socialists are on top of the problem.
I was lucky. I could still do most things myself while I was in the hospital. But I felt sorry for those who were incapacitated and had to wait for help. It's just going to get worse.
The present US healthcare system is outstanding compared to UK socialized medicine. I’ll take my chances here anytime. Of course if BO has his way all bets are off.
“Since the government runs things so well, including the post office, our education system, the DMV, etc., I can’t wait for them to run healthcare too.” — Signed, Typical “Progressive”.
I don’t understand why the trial lawyers are allowing their poodles in the Democrat Party concoct a government takeover of healthcare. Do they really think that the government would pay millions and millions of dollars out to settle cases like this one? You can’t sue the government, unless they allow you to sue them. Good luck with that.
Imogen Lloyd Webber assured me on Red Eye the other night that the British health care system is awesome and 94% of them love it. I’m sure if she—God forbid—was to become seriously ill, she would put herself on the waiting list and submit to state-run health care. Sure, she would.
***You can’t sue the government***
From the article:
A coroner has such grave concerns about the case that it has been referred to police.
Sources say they are investigating the possibility of a corporate manslaughter charge against St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London.
” I could still do most things myself while I was in the hospital”
I am a nurse and would NEVER leave a family member by themselves in a hospital if they were incapable of doing things for themselves. Between cutbacks and more paperwork that the government imposes every few months, there is very little time left for patient care by the small staffs remaining.
This week a task force called on nurses to sign a public pledge that they will treat everyone with compassion and dignity.
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compassion and dignity dont keep you alive...
Pills and IVs and water and food etc do...
A bad tempered old sourpuss could do that...
Ya otice that they put the word “dignity” with “death” ... “death with dignity”
He had a brain tumor that either damaged his pituitary gland or the treatment for it may have damaged the pituitary gland. This is why he was on replacement "hormones". He was probably also treated with corticosteroids which led to a condition called "avascular necrosis of the femoral head" or a dissolving of the hip. This was the reason for his hip surgery.
One of the hormones secreted by the posterior pituitary gland is ADH (antidiuretic hormone). It circulates from the pituitary gland to the kidney to reabsorb water and prevent water wasting. Too much ADH reabsorbs too much water and the sodium levels in the blood stream drop. Too little ADH allows water wasting and the sodium levels rise. This appears to be what happened.
It sounds as though he was not administered his replacement for the ADH and became dehydrated and confused as a result.
The case is a bit more complicated than the scenario at the top of this page but not complicated enough that it couldn't have been prevented.
This was bad medical management if it unfolded in the way the article suggested. Completely preventable.
No one in my family's been in the hospital in the last few years, but as recently as 5 years ago, I found the majority of nurses to be lazy bones hanging around the nurses' station talking about their wedding or vacation plans. My wife's a nurse, and the most hardworking person I know, so I know there are good, dedicated ones. It just seems like the last few times we've had someone hospitalized, the nurses were a pack of do nothing yakkers.
I would imagine it's better now since the economy went south and they're presumably all scared for their jobs.
If you have a long-term disease that is going to cost the government a lot of money to cure, or if your cure is uncertain, the rational thing for the government to do is to kill you as quickly and cheaply as possible. Their incentive is to save money, and they don’t have any sentimental attachment to you.
Whether they do it passively, as was done here, or actively does not really matter. It is unfortunate that this young man had to suffer for three days while they dehydrated him to death. An overdose of morphine would have been much quicker and cost effective.
He should have called his mother. If he had, I can guarantee you he’d still be alive today.
Surely 94% of the Brits deeply hate the National Health Service, but they line up for the substandard care because they have no choice. They meekly accept their fate because the state has taken control of their lives.
This is what it is like living in a socialist state. You are happy for the few crumbs you get.
You beat me to it. The silver lining to the otherwise black cloud is that it will get the traitors that voted for obama because he promised them “free health care” if elected. The only cost to them will be their lives.
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