Posted on 02/26/2010 2:57:58 PM PST by pissant
Almost 50,000 Health Service patients a year are dying while suffering from malnutrition in hospitals in England, shocking figures suggest.
A Government report says official statistics which claim that just 239 people a year die from malnutrition in hospital are 'very misleading'.
It warns than 200 times as many patients die while not properly nourished.
Critics attacked ministers after it emerged that the report was delivered in August last year, but has only just been released.
Health campaigners have said that elderly patients in particular are often treated as 'second class citizens' on wards.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yeah, a well oiled euthanasia machine maybe.
These NHS horror stories are now a dime-a-dozen.
Ministers wring their hands. Citizens voice their outrage and nobody’s responsible, nobody’s fired and nothing gets done.
Government hospitals are not answerable to their “customers”. It’s as simple as that.
Coming to a country near you.....
50,000 is not such a small number when you’re talking about a country of 60 million people.
This also is only counting iatrogenic deaths from malnutrition. Think about how many more people are dying unnecessesarily, for OTHER iatrogenic reasons - forgot meds, bedsores/infections, wrong dosages, wrong meds, denied treatments.
Sovietize medicine . Sovietize the results.
i·at·ro·gen·ic
(of a medical disorder) caused by the diagnosis, manner, or treatment of a physician.
Maybe Islam found a new terroristic tactic.
Shhhhhh, or someone may find out Obama and the RATs have found the “final solution” to the SocSec baby boomer crisis.
Even healthy people die from malnutrition if all they eat is English cooking! /sarc
Give ‘em a break — they can’t possibly finish their paperwork if they have to stop to feed patients. Thanks pissant.
Bears repeating. I couldn't even get the Post Office to stand behind one of their money orders.
I bet they have almost 50,000 autopsy reports substantiating this.
I know the definition you cited says ‘physician’ but it’s a term used to cover any foul-up that a doctor, nurse or other medical professional causes. Basically any screw-up by the hospital staff that causes a death.
That makes the number more likely. It’s like the early days of hospitals when they were a place to go to die, not recover.
And in case you think that is hyperbole, I give you Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI) at the "summit":
"The bill takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that's really reserved for Social Security. So either we're double-counting them or we don't intend on paying those Social Security benefits."
There are many good reasons why the NHS should be pilloried, but this is not one of them.
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