Keep me out of a Brit hospital.

[RickN]

Holy crap things are getting bad in UK hospitals.

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today.

The Office for National Statistics figures also showed that:

* as well as 43 people who starved to death, 287 people were recorded by doctors as being malnourished when they died in hospitals;

* there were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals;

* 78 hospital and 39 care home patients were killed by bedsores, while a further 650 people who died had their presence noted on their death certificates;

* 21,696 were recorded as suffering from septicemia when they died, a condition which experts say is most often associated with infected wounds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...arve-and-die-of-thirst-on-hospital-wards.html

 

[LightningCrash]

only 118 killed by bedsores?

Somehow the US manages over 10,000.


We're #1!

 

[Dale00]

I believe it is legal there to receive private medical care. Isn't it illegal to do so under Obamacare?

 

[RickN]

only 118 killed by bedsores?

Somehow the US manages over 10,000.


We're #1!

I have not seen that data so link please.

 

[LightningCrash]

I have not seen that data so link please.

http://www.health.mil/Libraries/PSPDocuments/Pressure_Ulcers_Guide_Final.pdf

10,000 per year for 10 years.

Your turn now!

 

[RidgeHunter]

Remember Terry Schiavo?

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Remember Terry Schiavo?

Let's not get this debate started...

 

[RidgeHunter]

Who, me?

 

[caojyn]

only 118 killed by bedsores?

Somehow the US manages over 10,000.


We're #1!

isn't that how Christopher Reeve died?

 

[JB Books]

If a patient is treated with proper protocol, it's very difficult for them to get bed sores.