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Dr Jane Barton
How I wish she was around when my mum spent 3 agonising month in hospital, begging doctors to give her something to end her life. She was 80 and it was obvious she was never gonna get better.
She died screaming in agony as the lung cancer eventually claimed her life.
I am sure, half the patients families that are complaining would have welcomed her actions.
She died screaming in agony as the lung cancer eventually claimed her life.
I am sure, half the patients families that are complaining would have welcomed her actions.
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I agree, Sharon.
Consultants were aware of her actions but did not intervene.
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Consultants were aware of her actions but did not intervene.
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I can totally understand your point Sharon, however not every patient involved in this case were in for end of life care - that's the difference.
I agreed with the 'Liverpool Care Plan' for my Husband as it was so lovingly explained to me, they treated him kindly but were champing at the bit to attach the syringe driver.
We only lost perhaps a few days together.
I'm sorry your Mother's death was so traumatic.
I agreed with the 'Liverpool Care Plan' for my Husband as it was so lovingly explained to me, they treated him kindly but were champing at the bit to attach the syringe driver.
We only lost perhaps a few days together.
I'm sorry your Mother's death was so traumatic.
No she wasn't young but was totally independent and 100% mental capacity. Monday she was out driving herself shopping, Tuesday into hospital with Meningitis (not diagnosed till Wednesday) on LCP by Thursday - we didn't really know anything about it at the time and put our complete trust in the consultant..
the report is here
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all four hundred pages
various points arise - no witnesses were called ( I think - I got a bit tired reading it towards the end) and so it was a paper only
very patient oriented - well victim centric - so their voices were heard. I have had a day in court with a victim who was giving the doctors hell, and at the end of the day (£10 000 per day) a QC said: "we know the meeting occurred but the doctor you say was there, we can show was in Saudi at that time"
The hospital changed into a Trust half way thro - and Mr Samuel picked up the old hospital's management board minutes out of secure storage - and lost them! The contents list of the lost documents clearly state what was in them
Like Dame janet smith and shipman - where the Pontefract notes were lost - the God Bishop cheerily said - well I will tack on an extra 200 deaths will that do?
They get a professor ( having searched around for one who had actually stepped inside a cottage hospital once or twice doing rehab ) to say Morphine should only be used as an analgesic. Everyone knows it has a sedative action and drug addicts certainly arent taking it to kill the pain in their lives
Pt A is 91 ( yup) and described as completely independent -but has fallen over and broken a hip. Then post op she falls over again. and later dies. Does anyone realise what the mortality of hip fracture is in 90 y olds at one month ? The books put it at 10% - I would say more like 30%. The hip is meant to break before they fall over by the way.
So it worth a read - but shipman ( yup he gets a good mench ) she certainly isnt
This will herald a " oh no|! we cant give morphine !" famine on the wards by the way - or as an Irish doctor quipped ( heroin not allowed in Dublin ) the only place you can get heroin now is in the hospital car park .....
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all four hundred pages
various points arise - no witnesses were called ( I think - I got a bit tired reading it towards the end) and so it was a paper only
very patient oriented - well victim centric - so their voices were heard. I have had a day in court with a victim who was giving the doctors hell, and at the end of the day (£10 000 per day) a QC said: "we know the meeting occurred but the doctor you say was there, we can show was in Saudi at that time"
The hospital changed into a Trust half way thro - and Mr Samuel picked up the old hospital's management board minutes out of secure storage - and lost them! The contents list of the lost documents clearly state what was in them
Like Dame janet smith and shipman - where the Pontefract notes were lost - the God Bishop cheerily said - well I will tack on an extra 200 deaths will that do?
They get a professor ( having searched around for one who had actually stepped inside a cottage hospital once or twice doing rehab ) to say Morphine should only be used as an analgesic. Everyone knows it has a sedative action and drug addicts certainly arent taking it to kill the pain in their lives
Pt A is 91 ( yup) and described as completely independent -but has fallen over and broken a hip. Then post op she falls over again. and later dies. Does anyone realise what the mortality of hip fracture is in 90 y olds at one month ? The books put it at 10% - I would say more like 30%. The hip is meant to break before they fall over by the way.
So it worth a read - but shipman ( yup he gets a good mench ) she certainly isnt
This will herald a " oh no|! we cant give morphine !" famine on the wards by the way - or as an Irish doctor quipped ( heroin not allowed in Dublin ) the only place you can get heroin now is in the hospital car park .....
// I`m not sure how much impact large doses of morphine would have on someone who is in a vegetative state.//
same as one who is compos mentis
large here is 10-20 mg - double to dose they feel should have been given. this was over 24 hrs and so is 1.5 to 2 mg h-1 which I certainly would nt say was mega
I cant remember if in 1995 the nurses were allowed to twiddle the dose - turn it up down and off. They are now
clearly if they thought the patient was morphiated the obvious thing was to turn it off ....- as far as I can work out there is NO discussion of that at all ....
same as one who is compos mentis
large here is 10-20 mg - double to dose they feel should have been given. this was over 24 hrs and so is 1.5 to 2 mg h-1 which I certainly would nt say was mega
I cant remember if in 1995 the nurses were allowed to twiddle the dose - turn it up down and off. They are now
clearly if they thought the patient was morphiated the obvious thing was to turn it off ....- as far as I can work out there is NO discussion of that at all ....
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