Posted on 08/27/2009 5:08:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
Health Care Reform: A study by the British Patients Association tells the true story about socialized medicine in Britain. It's one of willful and woeful neglect of millions, missed diagnoses, and elderly patients left in pain.
The abominable British National Health Service, based on this report, is only slightly better.
The Patients Association's primary focus was the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Health Trust, where it was found that up to 1,200 people died through failings in urgent care the past six years. Their analysis was prompted by an avalanche of complaints of shameful care at the hands of the NHS.
Claire Rayner, president of the group and a former nurse, said: "For far too long now, the Patients Association has been receiving calls on our help line from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses."
There was the case of 82-year-old piano teacher Pamela Goddard. She was suffering from cancer and was left to suffer in her excrement as her condition deteriorated due to bed sores.
Before Florence Weston died at age 85, she remained without food or water as her scheduled hip replacement operation was repeatedly canceled.
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not very different from what it’s like here.
My mother was in the hospital and it would have happened to her if I hadn’t gone in and made a fuss.
Many of the NHS “nurses” are immigrants from various African countries and for some reason don’t have the same ethic that we would consider a minimal standard. I think lack of training, supervision and oversight of these “nurses”, along with a poor ethic and attitude, explain the conditions.
The abominable British National Health Service
In their home countries, they expect family to come in and provide personal care , food, bed linens, etc. The nurse dispenses pills, orders the lower level staff about and tells the family to be quiet and when it is time to leave. They likely talk among themselves of the cold heartless whites who leave their family members to suffer alone in hospital.
The free market and tight tort restrictions will lower health insurance costs.
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