They still have wards, as in many beds in one room?
This is how most terminally ill folks with good cardiac....pulmonary or liver go
One way or the other..
Once the hydration bag goes its days....two weeks tops
Who needs “death panels.” People need to learn how to care for their loved ones at home, so they die with dignity when the time comes. My mother and husband didn’t want to die in a hospital, so I learned how to care for them at the end. My husband was Scots ancestry and financial opinions, and he was damned if some hospital was going to eat up all his hard earned life savings. Thankfully, he had VA plus Medicare.
If I don't go out before, I will go out laughing at you liberals who thought Obamacare was a good thing. Die, friggers. I hope all you dipshits who thought it a good thing to take over the world's best medical system, go out painfully in some hospice that YOUR gov can't pay for.
Best TO your families, but have no sympathy when you can't get immediate care (think Canada/England) and you DIE waiting for an operation/transplant that used to occur everyday in the free-enterprise America.
The Brits are still so proud of their NHS that they included them in the opening of their London Olympics! Liberalism truly is a mental disease.
We just gotta have a system like that here in the United States!!!
“In many wards nurses were dumping meal trays in front of patients too weak to feed themselves and then taking them away again untouched.”
Look, this happened with my own parents in the finest hospitals in NYC. The hospitals do not have staff to feed people, maybe they should but they don’t. The family has to do this part themselves.
Here is where I gave up, my mother was admitted to one of the “best” cancer hospitals in the country (I won’t say the name here), she had cancer of the esophagus (yes, from a life of drinking and smoking, right now I’m hoping it was the hard liquor that killed her because I myself only drink beer). On her first night in the hospital what did they give her to eat? Pork chops!
I’m no foodie, nor health food fanatic, but I have to say Nutrition is THE most overlooked part of health care.
But, hey, I’ll say this at least neither of them died of dehydration. Yay!
You cannot leave your family member unattended in a hospital, you may as well just put the pillow over their face yourself.
What is happening in Britain is a disgrace, but look at what happened during that heat wave in France a few years ago - the grannys were dying while the families were all on vacation.
FYI..The standard hospital "ward" in the UK and Australia is at least 8 to as many as 16 beds with nothing more than curtains separating the beds. Other than ICU, private rooms are not the norm. The same type of patient care problems have been happening in Australia.
Liberalism on display, folks!
When liberals have full control, the needs of the people are secondary to the needs of the state.
Nationally, California is a great example of total liberal control.....fuel shortages, gas prices near $6.00 per gallon, companies leaving daily, unlimited illegal immigrants, etc, etc, etc.
Get good and angry and motivated as never before to make sure Romney wins in November. Support those conservative/Republican candidates who are running behind in their state Senate races with a donation...IF they do not win their Senate/House races, Romney WILL NOT have sufficient votes to repeal obomacare.
When we read of things of this nature, it should stir us to DO something about it, rather than make “oh what the heck” comments and move on to something else. It is too easy to become complaisant, to become accepting of, say, socialism, for instance. The kids in our schools today are perfect examples of how indoctrination by the leftist school system has made socialism, “free everything at the expense of someone else” appealing and acceptable. We must be pro-active and pass along any article we read that is of importance to our well being in this country to others, and have them pass it on. We must go beyond making commentary to what we read here, and become active in doing something about it, however we can. We must not become complaisant..we must not become another United Kingdom.
Another touching story about the caring hearts of socialists. Sadly, I heard Conservative candidates telling voters that they could run the socialist NHS better than the Labor Party was doing. Americans should not laugh because the Republicans are now telling voters they will run the socialist public education system better than the Democrats have been doing.
When will people wake up to just how evil socialism is?
Article would be much improved with international comparisons. It is obvious that the same problems occur everywhere, but differences in rate between countries might be very revealing.
How often does this happen in USA vs UK?
Just one more way to curb the herd, agenda 21
Take the time to view this it’s eye opening
long version detailed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GykzQWlXJs&feature=related
never thinking that the patient needs assistance to eat and drink.
There is not much dignity in a nation that starves and dehydrates it’s undesirables in hospitals. No much dignity in Nations that sexually molest people at the airport, either. Wait until the liberals here get the power to murder at will via Obamacare.