Post by seniorcitizen007 on Aug 20, 2023 22:58:42 GMT
My experience of hospitals leads me to wonder to what extent is medical negligence willful? An elderly friend warned me some time ago ... be careful about complaining ... it can be dangerous. Letby is an extreme example of a personality type that "gets off" on harming, even causing the deaths of patients, and getting away with it. Every hospital has them. Matrons used to have the power to sack them before they did too much harm. Letby's behaviour caused "red flags" amongst the staff that Matron's could have a acted upon in the past. "Here's your cards, You're sacked. Go find another profession".Letby was in the habit of being where she shouldn't. A matron would have noticed this.
From 1984 to 1994 I was caring for my wife who had an MS diagnosis. Her behaviour was extremely odd ... and sometimes attracted "inappropriate responses" from hospital staff. In 1985 I complained about a doctor's attitude towards her. We ended up in a room with half a dozen members of the admin ... and received a genuine apology and an assurance that steps would be taken to ensure that it wouldn't happen again. Later, in the early 90s, after the admin structure had been "reorganised" and non-medically trained admin were in charge, I had cause to make a complaint about the attitude of some staff towards my wife. I ended up in a large room with a man sitting behind a large desk who made it quite plain that he had no intention of doing anything about it. Around that time The Independent published an article that warned that the NHS under the new admin was at risk of turning into a dictatorship.
When Labour got in in 1997 they did do a bit of investigation as to what was going on in the NHS. One report they made was about a hospital where the death rate amongst elderly people who had had minor operations was 8 times higher than in other hospitals. I hoped they'd restructure the NHS admin back to how it had been ... but they didn't. After initial publicity about how bad the NHS had become they began to refrain from too much criticism. Presumably because they didn't want to scare the public.
The unit where I receive my dialysis is run by a private company. The staff there are noticeably more "considerate" towards patients than the staff are in other parts of the hospital. The head office of the company "took notice" when I informed them that one of the NHS Nephrologists was prescribing excessive doses of an antibiotic ... which was being administered by their staff. The antibiotic being used was changed to something more appropriate for frail, elderly people. This Consultant has now retired.
Patients sometimes have to get treatment on the NHS Nephrology ward ... which some of the patients are critical of because of the behaviour of some of the staff ... one in particular ... who was called a "Philippino Hitler" by a patient. (Most Philippino nurses are noticeably more cheerful and friendly than other nationalities tend to be ... this one isn't. One of the Philippino nurses on my dialysis unit is called "Twinkle" ... that's the name her parents gave her! Her personality really does "twinkle" ... and she's very smart).
My experience of privatised units (Like where they do the scans) has always been positive.
From 1984 to 1994 I was caring for my wife who had an MS diagnosis. Her behaviour was extremely odd ... and sometimes attracted "inappropriate responses" from hospital staff. In 1985 I complained about a doctor's attitude towards her. We ended up in a room with half a dozen members of the admin ... and received a genuine apology and an assurance that steps would be taken to ensure that it wouldn't happen again. Later, in the early 90s, after the admin structure had been "reorganised" and non-medically trained admin were in charge, I had cause to make a complaint about the attitude of some staff towards my wife. I ended up in a large room with a man sitting behind a large desk who made it quite plain that he had no intention of doing anything about it. Around that time The Independent published an article that warned that the NHS under the new admin was at risk of turning into a dictatorship.
When Labour got in in 1997 they did do a bit of investigation as to what was going on in the NHS. One report they made was about a hospital where the death rate amongst elderly people who had had minor operations was 8 times higher than in other hospitals. I hoped they'd restructure the NHS admin back to how it had been ... but they didn't. After initial publicity about how bad the NHS had become they began to refrain from too much criticism. Presumably because they didn't want to scare the public.
The unit where I receive my dialysis is run by a private company. The staff there are noticeably more "considerate" towards patients than the staff are in other parts of the hospital. The head office of the company "took notice" when I informed them that one of the NHS Nephrologists was prescribing excessive doses of an antibiotic ... which was being administered by their staff. The antibiotic being used was changed to something more appropriate for frail, elderly people. This Consultant has now retired.
Patients sometimes have to get treatment on the NHS Nephrology ward ... which some of the patients are critical of because of the behaviour of some of the staff ... one in particular ... who was called a "Philippino Hitler" by a patient. (Most Philippino nurses are noticeably more cheerful and friendly than other nationalities tend to be ... this one isn't. One of the Philippino nurses on my dialysis unit is called "Twinkle" ... that's the name her parents gave her! Her personality really does "twinkle" ... and she's very smart).
My experience of privatised units (Like where they do the scans) has always been positive.
