Rolf (Sackerson) has written a chilling post:
Is it incompetence or is it official policy for hospitals to kill the old?
Actually, not just the old. Long pre-Covid times, the wife of a friend of mine contracted an infection and was taken to hospital. When her husband got there he found her unattended and untubed in bed (this was when hospitals had beds.) She needed fluids to flush out the toxins, but had nothing and the nurses seemed unable or unwilling to do anything and there was no doctor in sight.
More at the end of that link.
My ongoing experience of the NHS is that you have to drive them to do their jobs, after serious research/self diagnosis/treatment as they all seem to be box-tickers these days. Working out treatments for myself/going private has been the only way I could get timely treatment to avoid prolonged immobility, even if it means less inheritance ... Can't be helped, I have too much left to do in what time I have left
ReplyDeleteAfter nearly two years from the death of my beloved, after even the promised but not yet published hospital video, I still feel a violent urge to do great and lasting damage to the whole Death Certificate operation run by the Trust and the Durham Hospital
ReplyDeleteMy mother had to endure several weeks in hospital recently and the care given was abysmal. It was all about the procedure, rather than treatment. There was no response to changes in her condition, instead observations were faked so that eventually they got the outcome they wanted: to free the bed on the ward. It was much like a conveyor relentlessly carrying you to the exit. The NHS system didn't care whether you were alive or not when you finally left the building.
ReplyDeleteFriend of mine, in his 70's, contacted his GO that his breathing during his exercise routine was becoming more laboured. Chest Xray arranged 4 days later (lungs fine) and routine blood test taken. Phone call from GO arranging hospital scan as PSA reading was quite high. Over next 2 weeks, scan and biopsy showed stage 4 prostate cancer. Course of hormone therapies and further scans began. While awaiting beginning of radiotherapy, was told that one of the scans showed a large abdominal arterial aneurysm which could burst at any time. Radiotherapy postponed while operation on aneurysm carried out. Four weeks later, radiotherapy began. Quick actions by NHS prevented what could have been a sudden, initially unexplained, death, and started a course of action to prevent what could have been a long, painful, decline. Criticise the NHS to my friend and the response you may find interesting. Of course, one's opinions are often based on personal experiences. Perhaps he was just lucky.
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