Wednesday, January 02, 2008

I just can't wait for universal healthcare!

How about you? We can all enjoy the same availability of substandard healthcare just like they do in Great Britain!

The following article shows what we have to look forward to:

How doctors lie on death certificates to hide the true scale of the toll from hospital infections

By SUE REID

Joan Horne once worked for the National Health Service. In her day the wards were scrubbed with bleach, while nurses washed their hands with soap and water before caring for a patient. If not, a strict matron wanted to know why.

She has never forgotten the golden era of the NHS. So when 78-year-old Joan watched Edwin, her husband of 37 years, die after catching a deadly superbug at her local hospital, she began a fight for justice.

Just before Christmas, a tape recorder in her hand, she marched off to Barnsley Hospital in Yorkshire and forced managers to admit that not only had Edwin contracted a lethal infection called Clostridium difficile (C. diff) as a patient, but that doctors failed to declare the truth on his death certificate.

Joan said: "I fear this kind of cover-up is happening at hospitals all over the country. I miss Edwin terribly, but the way we lost him and dishonesty by the hospital about the real cause of his death has made it all much worse for me and my family. I was desperate to bring Edwin home. The hospital was dirty. I found a used syringe under the bed, soiled cotton wool pads left on his floor and there were human faeces smeared on the door. Looking back, it is no surprise he caught a superbug."

Click on the title to read more. Exciting stuff!

----Katie

1 comment:

Rick Weiss said...

Actually I am for free healthcare.
The hospital and doctors stay like they are now, but with no malpractice insurance the cost goes down.
SO the hospitals bill the government, and the government pays, this is funded by sales tax so even winos end up paying.
We become walking vouchers and the Hospital vie for our patronage.

Anyway, That's my prayer

Peace out Katie