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@bozzalad | 22 June 18 | |
Ms Giffin, who worked under disgraced doctor Jane Barton - dubbed Doctor Opiate - died after a short battle with motor neurone disease in 2003. Dr Barton, a former GP, is believed to have left the country with husband Tim after they were visited by police. Ms Wilson added: 'Mum never wanted to point any figures at anyone. It wasn't about any particular doctor. It was about the whole system. 'They bullied her until she gave them some names.' Ms Giffin and her nursing colleagues began raising concerns about the administration of diamorphine and syringe drivers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in 1991. |
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@bozzalad | 22 June 18 | |
Following a meeting in 1991, the nurses were told by patient care manager Isobel Evans that they complaints had 'put a great deal of stress on everyone'. Dr Barton is also understood to have been present at the meeting. The independent panel report said the meeting had the 'effect of silencing the nurses' concerns'. It comes as a leading health academic said NHS staff were routinely hastening death through a lethal combination of sedatives and dehydration. |
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@bozzalad | 22 June 18 | |
Professor Patrick Pullicino said it was commonplace for doctors to diagnose the impending death of their patients and then put them out of their perceived misery. A second expert, Professor Brian Jarman, said it was LIKELY that a Gosport-style scandal was already happening elsewhere. |
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@obi_jon | 22 June 18 | |
@ bozzalad - 22.06.18 - 11:45am Professor Patrick Pullicino said it was commonplace for doctors to diagnose the impending death of their patients and then put them out of their perceived misery. A second expert, Professor Brian Jarman, said it was LIKELY that a Gosport-style scandal was already happening elsewhere. I wonder what might be making it 'commonplace for doctors' to think they have the authority or right to end someone's life prematurely? Is he saying that doctors routinely go around deciding their elderly patients should die sooner rather than later, or to not treat them appropriately because ''muh, they'll be dead soon anyway.''. Because that's what it sounds like. |
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@obi_jon | 22 June 18 | |
Making cost/benefit decisions on people's lives? Are they too old to spend any money on treating them, just 'put them out of their misery' instead? Is that where we are?
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@iilmadme | 22 June 18 | |
Literally makes me feel like crying
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@prattle | 22 June 18 | |
If I had to work around a load of smelly old dying people theyd end up dying a violent death so I applaud these people for having the calm to do it with painkillers and not headbutts
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@bozzalad | 22 June 18 | |
@ obi_jon - 22.06.18 - 02:41pm Making cost/benefit decisions on people's lives? Are they too old to spend any money on treating them, just 'put them out of their misery' instead? Is that where we are? Yes |
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@obi_jon | 22 June 18 | |
And you're ok with that? Or do we agree that this is wholly unacceptable, illegal and that the people doing it should be held fully accountable and prosecuted if that is indeed the case?
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@bozzalad | 22 June 18 | |
@ obi_jon - 22.06.18 - 07:09pm And you're ok with that? Or do we agree that this is wholly unacceptable, illegal and that the people doing it should be held fully accountable and prosecuted if that is indeed the case? i am far from ok with it, and yes they should be held accountable Never gonna happen tho have you seen the stick anyone who criticizes any aspect of the nhs gets? two billion in compensation n rising each year says there is a problem thousands being murdered says there is a problem doctors n nurses getting hounded out for whistleblowing says there is a problem amputations on the wrong people says there is a problem etc etc etc try talking about it the usual response is ''what problem?'' |
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