Posted on 02/14/2011 5:04:35 PM PST by Nachum
A study of pensioners who suffered appalling treatment at the hands of doctors and nurses says that half were not given enough to eat or drink. One family member said the maltreatment amounted to “euthanasia”. Some were left unwashed or in soiled clothes, while others were forgotten after being sent home or given the wrong medication. In several cases considered by the Health Service Ombudsman, patients died without loved ones by their sides because of the “casual indifference” of staff and their “bewildering disregard” for people’s needs.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“Bring out your dead.......”
This Gordian Knot will never be untied. Someone will have to come along and hack it to pieces.
The elderly have ceased to be human beings and have been turned into a line item in the government budget.
Transformational.
Coming to America along with the UK’s Islamification. The UK provides ENDLESS benefits to third world (African & Islamic countries) faux “asylum seekers.”
Seniors and Baby boomers who voted and did not vote for Hussein are going to be very sorry.
The British wanted their government to own health care, and now it does and it ain’t pretty what happens to the most vulnerable in the land. No doctor owns responsibility or has a personal relationship to the patient for correct care — instead it’s a bureaucracy’s purview, and bureaucracies are famous for passing bucks.
Hopefully there’s a lesson here vis a vis the hacks in America still calling for Obamacare. (Kick them out, or have your life owned by a bureaucracy especially when you get old.)
That's arguable. "Euthanasia" comes from Greek for "good death."
I really like that quote. May I keep it on my profile wall, please? Attributed to you, of course.
They need to have a few conversations with folks across the pond, and read the stories like this.
Be my guest!
In January of 2010, I had knee replacement surgery. I had the option to spend a few days in a “care center” or go home. I opted for the “care center” so as to give my wife a few days rest. Little did I know that the care in care center meant WE DON”T CARE!!!
I was there 3 days and never had a bath, never had one second of phys therapy (necessary after knee surgery).
And the staff was totally complacent and worthless.
In my opinion, how a society treats its elderly and infants says a lot about it. I have told my kids that when looking at the elderly know one thing... “where you are, they once were. Where they are, you will be”. They show utmost respect when someone is slow or a bit confused.
These are the people who live with Socialized Medicine. There is not a kind word in 5 of the 140 responses.
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