There were 558 cases last year where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a
state of severe dehydration in UK hospitals
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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Well, they got their wish. Good luck fellow citizens.
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“Moslems and OUR FAMILES are exempt, suckers.”
That is one way to bring down health costs.
Nevil Shute wrote a couple of novels that expressed a dim view of British socialism and medicine back in the early 50s.
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Absolutely skin crawlingly terrifying. I saw an article the other day that I neglected to ping out in which a Dem somebody or other admitted that 0 care did indeed have "death panels". If anyone knows where that article is could you ping me?
When those in charge of "health care" love to kill people, it does not stop with merely starving and dehydrated people to death, or merely with holding other care. It inevitably will lead to actively murdering people with drugs or other methods. Guaranteed.
Who would put their loved ones in these warehouses of death? Every government bureaucrat who allows the elderly and infirm to starve and thirst to death should be treated in the same way when they are old. But of course, government higher-ups will always exempt themselves from such inhumane treatment.
When I lived in New Zealand that has socialized medicine, I visited an acquaintance in a ward. As an RN, having worked in a renowned, University teaching hospital, it was terribly shocking.
If I hadn’t been a nurse, I’d have probably died when I developed a penicillin allergy. Thankfully, I took about a bottle of Benadryl before my neighbor took me to the ER. My doctor about had a cow the next day when I told him I’d been abandoned in a back room, and finally walked out when I could breath normally again thanks to all the Benadryl I took. Then there were the experiences with daughter...I shudder to think what will happen with Obama care.
I have a friend who’s Irish (married to an American and has lived here for 12+ years, two kids). She is astounded at the rush to nationalize healthcare. “People here have NO IDEA what they’re wishing for!” she exclaims. Her own mother, back home, had to wait over a year for simple cardiac catheterization — a woman in her upper 50s! “The list was so long” explained my friend.
Utter in-freakin’-sanity!!!!
I read “On the beach” years ago and was struck by the fact that it was an oddly hopeful story in the face of certain death.
The Far Country (1952): A young woman travels to Australia. A condemnation of British socialism and the national health service.
In the Wet (1953); an Anglican priest tells the story of an Australian aviator. This embraces a drug-induced flash forward to Britain in the 1980s. The novel criticizes British socialism.
So Disdained (1928), written soon after the General Strike of 1926, reflected the debate in British Society about socialism and considered whether Italian fascism was an effective antidote.
Ruined City (1938; U.S. title: Kindling) a rich banker revives a town economically with a shipbuilding company through questionable financial dealings. He goes to jail for fraud, but the shipyard revives. Ruined City was distilled from Shute’s experiences in trying to set up his own aircraft company.
I couldn’t decide if that spectacle was more pathetic than disgusting or more disgusting than pathetic. And the Brits used to be so brave and stoic, sad to see what socialism does to a country.
OBAMACARE plans to not permit readmissions of Medicare patients. Hosptials will be fined if they are readmitted. So if mom has surgery and develops an infection, forget about it.
Also, plan on comfort care only after age 72.
“Her own mother, back home, had to wait over a year for simple cardiac catheterization — a woman in her upper 50s!”
I had a neighbor that needed triple bypass surgery and had to wait over 6 months. I, and I’m sure a lot of others, prayed fervently for him. My daughter’s tutor had diabetes. I can’t even begin to explain what she went through. I don’t think people really understand the horrors of socialized medicine unless they’ve experienced it, and how we’ve had the best medical care in the world in the U.S.
Gee I don’t remember this happening in the tribute to the NHS during the London Olympics’ opening ceremony. Somebody call Danny Boyle!
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