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hypocritexposer

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Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:56 PM on 17th August 2009

A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.

Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child.

But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207151/Woman-gives-birth-pavement-refused-ambulance.html#ixzz0Oa3NwzLl
 

Sandhusker

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Reader, I think that when you were on this board last week or so extolling the virtues of the Cuban health system, you pretty much shot yourself out of the saddle for having any credibility and/or sense on healthcare.
 

Steve

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He stood at the end of my bed, murmering "fetch? fetch?" – clearly not having the faintest idea what he was being asked to do. The sister went and did the job herself.

On another occasion, I handed an agency nurse my full urine bottle – few things are hidden in hospital – and she looked around, wondering what to do with it, before spotting the basin where staff wash their hands and pouring the contents down the plughole. When I told a staff nurse what she'd done, he turned white and rushed away to get some bleach.

"I wouldn't mind if the agency staff had any qualifications, but we have to take them on trust," a ward sister told me.

scary thought.. after reading this part of the article, it occurred to me how outright dangerous and criminally neglect the NHS really is..

hiring nursing staff this incompetent.. and not knowing if they are qualified?
 
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90 patients died in C difficile outbreaks between 2004 and 2006, after revelations that conditions in parts of the trust's hospitals were scandalously filthy.
My mother in law contracted this at the Hosiptil in Tyler. They tried every antibotic in th book. My daughter read about Mayo Clinc treating this condition with a probotic by the name of Florastor. My wife talked to the doctor and he agreed to try it. No prescription is required. They quarnteed her in her room at the nursing home and it took nearly two weeks to clear the condition up. A stool sample was taken each day to ascertian that she was clear.
 

Steve

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hurleyjd said:
90 patients died in C difficile outbreaks between 2004 and 2006, after revelations that conditions in parts of the trust's hospitals were scandalously filthy.
My mother in law contracted this at the Hosiptil in Tyler. They tried every antibotic in th book. My daughter read about Mayo Clinc treating this condition with a probotic by the name of Florastor. My wife talked to the doctor and he agreed to try it. No prescription is required. They quarnteed her in her room at the nursing home and it took nearly two weeks to clear the condition up. A stool sample was taken each day to ascertian that she was clear.

scary stuff when one person has it.. real scary and sad when 90 die from it...

I lived in Scotland for two years. my wife is Scottish.. ... so I do have "experience" with the NHS.. and I pray we never go that route..
 
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Steve said:
He stood at the end of my bed, murmering "fetch? fetch?" – clearly not having the faintest idea what he was being asked to do. The sister went and did the job herself.

On another occasion, I handed an agency nurse my full urine bottle – few things are hidden in hospital – and she looked around, wondering what to do with it, before spotting the basin where staff wash their hands and pouring the contents down the plughole. When I told a staff nurse what she'd done, he turned white and rushed away to get some bleach.

"I wouldn't mind if the agency staff had any qualifications, but we have to take them on trust," a ward sister told me.

scary thought.. after reading this part of the article, it occurred to me how outright dangerous and criminally neglect the NHS really is..

hiring nursing staff this incompetent.. and not knowing if they are qualified?
Steve I do not think that incompetent nurses is an isolated occurence in Eangland only. My 3 weeks in the Hosipital last fall proved this to be the case. Most were courtesy but could not hit a vien and would have to call a person in that could. They would have to wait a hour to get the help. They were giving me potassiam in the vien to keep my Hydrated. Some would turn it up fast and I would have to ask to slow it down. Have you every had potassiam in the vien. If it is dripped in to fast it will burn a vien up. I think I had every vien in my hands and arms messed up before I was dismissed. They were talking about putting the shunt in an artery in my chest if I had to keep taking the potassiam.
 

Steve

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hurleyjd said:
Steve said:
He stood at the end of my bed, murmering "fetch? fetch?" – clearly not having the faintest idea what he was being asked to do. The sister went and did the job herself.

On another occasion, I handed an agency nurse my full urine bottle – few things are hidden in hospital – and she looked around, wondering what to do with it, before spotting the basin where staff wash their hands and pouring the contents down the plughole. When I told a staff nurse what she'd done, he turned white and rushed away to get some bleach.

"I wouldn't mind if the agency staff had any qualifications, but we have to take them on trust," a ward sister told me.

scary thought.. after reading this part of the article, it occurred to me how outright dangerous and criminally neglect the NHS really is..

hiring nursing staff this incompetent.. and not knowing if they are qualified?
Steve I do not think that incompetent nurses is an isolated occurence in Eangland only. My 3 weeks in the Hosipital last fall proved this to be the case. Most were courtesy but could not hit a vien and would have to call a person in that could. They would have to wait a hour to get the help. They were giving me potassiam in the vien to keep my Hydrated. Some would turn it up fast and I would have to ask to slow it down. Have you every had potassiam in the vien. If it is dripped in to fast it will burn a vien up. I think I had every vien in my hands and arms messed up before I was dismissed. They were talking about putting the shunt in an artery in my chest if I had to keep taking the potassiam.

I am sure everyone has had an issue at one time or another with a vein not cooperating.. my wife has problems with this as well.. when they have a problem with the first one she asks for a baby needle.. seems to work.. not only do they understand her veins are difficult, but small as well.. and she has had to wait for someone who can do it right as well,,

it doesn't make them incompetent.. it just means the task is difficult and only a few can do it well.. and those few are in demand (rationed)

but to put it in the same context as a nurse who can't figure out what to do with a urine sample... or one who can't get fetch an item.. seems unfair..

would you want either of them to put a drip in your vein? especially the one with the urine sample.. ???
 
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