On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:43:45 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
So is mine.
Cocoa How have the mighty fallen OT. 717Excellent post, can't top that. So here follows an anecdote, it refers to the Leeds General Infirmary Ca. 2,000. Took my late mum into out patients for a 2pm appointment. We...
My father in law went into "Jimmy's" with a broken femur as a result of a fall. The NHS ambulance crew lost his notes because they were opening the new A&E on the LGI site that day (Utter chaos = Big joke, Guffaws all around BTW) so the ward did not continue his medication. As a result he went down to theatre and had a hip replacement which subsequently did not heal. After 3 days they said his new prosthetic hip was infected and he had to have it out so he then had *No* hip joint. He was put in a side ward with other patients thereby putting them at risk of getting the same infection he had. His bed could not be seen from the nurses workstation (none of them could) although the ward was modern, built in 1972, the year we got married.
One Sunday afternoon he fell out of bed 18 times in the space of 2 +1-2 hours because there was no-one to help-restrain him.
He died after 6 weeks in a filthy, disgusting dump. His food was dumped at the side of his bed and just collected 4 hours later untouched, he was not nursed, probably because he was old.
After he was moved into a private room (because he was infected with MRSA) they still kept the ward mop and bucket in the room with him. His window looked out onto an enclosed quadrangle to which the public had no access which was littered with used syringes and disposable urinal bottles.
The dirty bastards !
Yes, So ?
DG
