Wait until the Obamacare numbers start rolling in.
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Considering the rough population size in the UK is about 60 million 50,000 folks just in Scotland is a big number. It appears to be the de facto standard of care across Scotland.
“Free” Socialist Healthcare is just the government’s way of culling the herd. Once you’ve been used up, you are no longer of any use to the collective.
That seems so obvious to any rational human being, but psychopaths tend to disagree, loudly and often.
Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die'
Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock.
Makes you wonder what else they have to do that is more important. I see every day in nursing homes here in the US, feeding and helping residents eat is a major investment of time for the nursing assistants. It is a priority, for just the reasons this article illustrates.
It also helps illustrate why nursing homes are labor intensive and therefore expensive. But the alternative is unacceptible in a civilized nation. Too bad Scotland appears no longer to qualify for that category. Only question is, quo vadis America?
As far as the Anglos are concerned,it's still to Hell with the bloody Irish, Welsh, and Scots.
Just kidding,I think.
Our culture has become so degraded. In Thailand, the elderly are highly respected. Normally a family member stays with the old patient to give personal care. This effort is freely given and the caregivers feel no resentment. If no family is available, the hospital care is very compassionate.
All under the guise of “social justice”......... =.=
This is from the Baptist Press, not sure if you want to ping it or not.
Where do you draw the line between malnutrition and traditional Scots cuisine though?
That isn’t a hospital and that isnt a nursing staff.
Even in America the care your parents get is directly associated with the visit’s you make, but this isnt care at all it’s gross negligence.
The Healthcare system from Hell.
Scotland?
How about here! My father had a stroke that left him unable to speak orswallow( this was before Katrina at THE biggest hospital here) and a doctor suggested that I let him STARVE instead of putting in a feeding tube. He said it would take about a week and it was painless, he would just ‘weaken and go easy’! I told him he should work in a funeral parlor, since he was more interested in death than life.
I authorized the feeding tube. I saw it as no different than using a plastic spoon to feed my father- an instrument , no different than feeding someone paralyzed who couldn’t feed themselves.
The doctor was amazed that I didn’t think witholding food was a humane way of ‘letting my dad go’.
Intentionally letting someone starve is MURDER. No different than locking them in a basement and not feeding them.
The attitude is HERE, people, in our doctors and our hospitals. If you don’t think so- wait till you have an elderly loved one need treatment.
That was 2004. My dad lived for a year with the feeding tube-evacuating for Katrina and coming back to this pest hole killed him. But the doctors wanted him dead because of his age!
Starvation is a weapon of mass destruction. Stock your pantry, and don’t keep it all in one place. It’s going to be a long run...
Government makes a very poor substitute for God.
This is a general problem in medical care today. If an elderly family member goes to the hospital, any hospital, do not assume that their needs are being met in “common care” areas.
A family member being a “squeaky wheel”, will help insure that they are fed and given water, that they are washed and their linens changed. Inquiries with the nursing staff will insure that the nurses know why the patient is there, and this acts as an error check in several ways.
Administrative errors are often glaring. No, grandfather does not need a hysterectomy. His physician is not Dr. Kevorkian. His living will does not say “smother with pillow while asleep and remove internal organs.”
It is a good idea that when visiting them, at least once to check their hospital dossier, to make sure their finances, insurance, wills and other documents are in order. This is a hospital’s bread and butter, but mistakes can and do still happen.
His story, though, was one of extreme disappointment as he observed that human life over there was worthless. He described the picture of hundreds of thousands of corpses floating down a river and contrasted it with America where each death results in coroners' inquiries and police investigations.
This situation in Scotland sounds more like Africa than the great Western civilization we thought was timeless.