A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.
Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year- old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers.He died within two weeks. But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back and he was in fact suffering from pneumonia brought on by a chest infection.
To his family's horror, they were told he could have recovered if he'd been given the correct treatment.
Yesterday, after being given an £18,000 pay-out over her ordeal, his widow Pat branded his treatment 'barbaric' and accused the doctors of manslaughter.
Mr Jones was being cared for at a hospice which was central to the contentious Liverpool Care Pathway under which dying patients have their life support taken away, although the hospice claims it wasn't officially applied in his case.The scheme is used by hundreds of hospitals and care homes, and is followed in as many as 20,000 deaths a year.
Supporters say it brings dignity to a patient's final hours, but critics fear that some are placed into it incorrectly.
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Oh, and this too!!
Soldier dies after receiving smoker's lungs in transplant
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A leading UK hospital has defended its practice of using organs donated by smokers after the death of a soldier who received the cancerous lungs of a heavy smoker.Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, died at his home in 2008, less than a year after receiving a transplant that was supposed to save his life at Papworth Hospital -- the UK's largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital, in Cambridgeshire, east England.
Papworth Hospital released a statement saying using donor lungs from smokers was not "unusual."
The statement added that the hospital had no option but to use lungs from smokers as "the number of lung transplants carried out would have been significantly lower," if they didn't.
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Hat tip to Michael
15 comments:
This reminds me of Beck's show today. These truths need to be repeated!
It's systemic. Get used to it because it will be the reality here.
Welcome to ObamaCare. These two stories are a foreshadowing of things to come. God Help Us.
If most Americans had a better idea of what we are facing with gov't-run healthcare, there would be a revolt.
Lady, We need God and an army of angry Conservatives ready to march, spend money and vote.
Klik... information and education about this issue will help our case.
You know, the truth is right there in front of most of them. It is their refusal to believe that any such thing could happen. Everyone on the news, even if they are against it, are... polite, for the most part.
I remember reading about the French Revolution. The murders continued, in part, because those condemned went up and were stoic about their own beheading! Until, it is said, one woman who loved life and vigor and people and flowers and... yeah, she was a woman... anyway, she screamed her bloody head off and fought as she was able, pleading to the last. That actually got their attention.
By then, of course, it will be too late. Ask any aborted fetus. Then again, those stories over there... But they have to be in the news. In spite of disbelief in the news, that is still were most voters (seniors) get what they get. *sigh* Stupid people.
Out of the air a voice without a face
Proved by statistics that some cause was just
In tones as dry and level as the place:
No one was cheered and nothing was discussed;
Column by column in a cloud of dust
They marched away enduring a belief
Whose logic brought them, somewhere else, to grief.
- Stanza from Auden's "The Shield of Achilles"....Summing up ObamaCare
Here is a link to a story about one who escaped the ghouls.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6869646.ece
And Liberals want this fiasco of a health care system. People need to wake up and quick! So, Dems are the ones for killing off the sick and elerly. Dems prefer saving costs to saving lives. UGH! What a sad state of affairs.
Doom, we may only be thrashing and flailing before our political and societal death, but let's not walk calmly to the ovens.
Rhod, bless you. That is a gem.
Terri, this thing has nothing to do with health care. It has everything to do with political power.
Nickie, you should stop by more often, I had the transplant story up on Saturday.
Cbull, I feel so cheap.
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