Posted on 03/29/2010 4:41:03 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
Dying hospital patient phoned switchboard begging for a drink after nurses said No
By Liz Hull 29th March 2010
A patient desperate for a drink of water had to telephone the switchboard of the hospital he was being treated in to beg to see a doctor.
Derek Sauter, 60, used his mobile phone to request medical attention after his pleas for help were ignored.
But when the doctor arrived he was turned away by ward nurse Caroline Lowe, who said Mr Sauter was 'over-reacting' and threatened to confiscate his phone.
Eight hours later the grandfather-of-three, who was suffering with a chest infection, was dead.
Rather than offering sympathy to Susan, Mr Sauter's wife of 41 years, Miss Lowe later told her that he could have been prosecuted for harassing the doctor on call.
'My father went into hospital for a routine chest infection, but never came out,' said Miss Sauter, of Thurrock, Essex.
He was admitted to a ward and given intravenous antibiotics and oxygen, but at 8.30pm he telephoned Mrs Sauter, a midwife, in distress claiming nurses were refusing to give him any water because he had accidentally knocked over the first cup he had been given.
A note scrawled by Mr Sauter and discovered by his family after his death said: 'Asked for a jug of water at 6pm and again at 8.30, told to wait for handover. Said I knocked cup of water on floor.'
Some time between 9.30pm and 11.30pm Mr Sauter was moved to a side room where there was no monitoring equipment and, although he was supposed to be checked every four hours, no observations on his condition were made.
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Medicare.....
Obamacare.....
turned Doc away?
“The New America.” Coming soon to a hospital near you.
Criminal
A note scrawled by Mr Sauter and discovered by his family after his death said: 'Asked for a jug of water at 6pm and again at 8.30, told to wait for handover. Said I knocked cup of water on floor.'
From now on, all dead patients will be searched for notes left to relatives. If these notes complain about NHS treatment they will be promptly destroyed.
This is outrageous and appears to be a trend. Sad.
A nurse turned a doctor away?
Most docs I know would have kicked her stupid nursing school only butt.
..socialized medicine
The truly sad part is this is not an isolated incident. These type stories appear in the UK and Canadian press outlets daily and this type of “Post Office” health care is what our Congress just voted for.......Remember in November!
One of the comments further down the page.
This wouldn’t bother the zero administration - probably not a rat voter, and now he wouldn’t need social security. One must think of the good of the state rather than specific people /s.....well except those in power and those who can be depended on to keep voting to keep them in power.
So that’s where the race of Morlocks got their start. Nasty!
Yes, yes, but I’m sure the NHS learned a valuable lesson from this.
Probably working two or three jobs in order to pay for the ridiculously high taxes they have support their NHS. Remember, the average European lives below what would be considered the poverty level here. Gas is over $7/gallon in most of Europe in addition to high sales taxes, VAT tax, etc.
Every time I've visited western Europe I found myself asking "How did these people allow themselves to get into a situation like this?" For someone who dearly loves freedom it is a very sad sight......
When it is a government facility, there are strict “visiting hours”, not to be excessive or exceeded.
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