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Note: this article has been updated to include a response from WellSpan. A Philadelphia law firm said Thursday it filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 72-year-old man who died after staff apparently lost track of him in the emergency room at WellSpan York Hospital. Terry Lynn Odoms, who arrived by ambulance and was put in a wheelchair, was a Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran, according to lawyer Matt Casey, who is representing Odoms’ family. “A decorated veteran who fought for our country was abandoned and left to suffer and die by a health system that knew it wasn’t adequately...

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. The death toll was disclosed by the Government amid mounting concern over the dignity of patients on NHS wards. * as well as 43 people who starved to death, 287 people were recorded by doctors as being malnourished when they died in hospitals; * there were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals; * 78 hospital and 39 care home patients were killed by bedsores, while a...