Single-Payer Hell: British NHS kills grandfather anyway after he beat cancer
I think we need to end the lie that proponents of socialized health care are motivated by good intentions. They aren't.
And yes - they actively killed the guy. He beat cancer, but NHS 'doctors' put him on hospice care and offed him anyway.
Oops. Sorry about that. Our bad. But feel better that you won't be getting a bill for hospice care. Now just go away.
This is a logical result of socialized medicine. Socialized as in those that are perceived to contribute to society get dibs. Retired seniors, on the other hand, get the shaft. After all, they don't work any more, or pay taxes. Their years making a financial contribution are over, and bureaucrats know it. Thus, they are put on a fast track towards death. Simple as that. Socialized medicine thus seamlessly bonds together the compassion of the IRS with the efficiency of the Post Office. From the U.K. Mail Online via JWF: My husband had beaten cancer, then doctors WRONGLY told him it had returned and sent him to a hospice who let him die. Note that death panels are real:
A grandfather who beat cancer and was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.
Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year- old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers.
He died within two weeks. But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back and he was in fact suffering from pneumonia brought on by a chest infection.
To his family's horror, they were told he could have recovered if he'd been given the correct treatment.
Okay, the NHS killed an old man for no good reason, but think of all the money they'll save on future health care.
Yesterday, after being given an £18,000 pay-out over her ordeal, his widow Pat branded his treatment 'barbaric' and accused the doctors of manslaughter.
Mr Jones was being cared for at a hospice which was central to the contentious Liverpool Care Pathway under which dying patients have their life support taken away, although the hospice claims it wasn't officially applied in his case.
The scheme is used by hundreds of hospitals and care homes, and is followed in as many as 20,000 deaths a year.
...'We fought in the hospice to get Jack the right treatment and they blocked us, making us feel we were a nuisance.
Socialized medicine, especially in Britain, has a terminal infection of evil, and needs itself to be put on a 'death pathway.' Yet the bureaucrats love it. Kills 2 birds with one stone. Offs someone who will need expensive treatment and at the same time removes a no longer useful member of society.
Isn't that compassionate of them though. His widow was right - this is barbaric and those administrators are guilty of manslaughter at least, murder at worst. But don't worry folks. It'll be different here. It will be better because.. uh...
Previously:
Single-Payer Hell: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve to death
Single-Payer Hell: British NHS Takes 10 Months To Fix Badly Broken Arm
U.K. healthcare epiphany: You know, we should really be encouraging old people to kill themselves
British NHS doesn't have money to treat cancer patients, but has money for sex change of 12-year old boy
Single-Payer Hell: Life-Saving Drug Nixed In U.K. To Save Cost
Single-Payer Hell: A mother in the U.K.: 'Doctors told me it was against the rules to save my premature baby'
Single-Payer Hell: Patients With Terminal Illnesses Made To Die Prematurely Under British Health Care System - NHS. Death Panels are real!
Single-Payer Hell: Prisoners Eat Better Than NHS Patients
Single-Payer Hell: British patients sue over 33% failure rate for operations
Single-Payer Hell: In Britain, 'Cruel and neglectful' care of one million NHS patients exposed
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Single-Payer Hell: Babies In The U.K. Born In Hospital Corridors, Toilets
Single-Payer Hell: British NHS Deny Alzheimers Funding Because "Alzheimer's Is Not A Health Condition"
Single-Payer Hell: In Britain, Unincarcerated Child Molester Being Given Viagra!
Single-Payer Hell: Woman in U.K. Denied Ambulance, Gives Birth On Pavement
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My husband had beaten cancer, then doctors WRONGLY told him it had returned and sent him to a hospice who let him die
By James Tozer
Last updated at 8:22 AM on 14th October 2009
A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.
Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year- old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers.
He died within two weeks. But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back and he was in fact suffering from pneumonia brought on by a chest infection.
To his family's horror, they were told he could have recovered if he'd been given the correct treatment.
Death pathway: Jack and Pat Jones pictured about ten years ago. Jack was left to die after doctors decided his 'cancer' was terminal and stopped feeding him
Yesterday, after being given an £18,000 pay-out over her ordeal, his widow Pat branded his treatment 'barbaric' and accused the doctors of manslaughter.
Mr Jones was being cared for at a hospice which was central to the contentious Liverpool Care Pathway under which dying patients have their life support taken away, although the hospice claims it wasn't officially applied in his case.
The scheme is used by hundreds of hospitals and care homes, and is followed in as many as 20,000 deaths a year.
Supporters say it brings dignity to a patient's final hours, but critics fear that some are placed into it incorrectly.
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Mr Jones, a retired bricklayer with two daughters, was diagnosed with stomach cancer in May 2005. After undergoing chemotherapy, he had his stomach removed by surgeons at Royal Liverpool Hospital that September.
He was told he was in remission from cancer, but the grandfather of two continued to suffer pain following the operation as well as difficulties in eating, and on January 3, 2006, he went to the city's Marie Curie hospice for respite care.
While there, however, his family were told the cancer had returned by Dr Alison Coackley, a palliative medicine consultant who played a key role in drawing up the Liverpool Care Pathway.
Despite the fact that no tests were carried out to confirm the diagnosis, his family say doctors instructed nurses to stop giving him food and fluids.
Hey, those tests would have cost money! Cheaper to let him die quicker.
We have to save money on "end of life" care. And how do you determine in advance when the end of life has been reached? A government expert will determine that and this case shows he won't need any damned wasteful diagnostic tests - or even examine a mans chest - to do it.
Misdiagnosed: Jack's widow Pat has been paid an £18,000 settlement although health bosses refused to admit liability
The only medication he was permitted were painkillers, and he slipped into semi- consciousness without the chest infection being diagnosed and died on January 14.
But a post-mortem examination found he was free of cancer and had in fact died of pneumonia.
Reports commissioned by Mrs Jones's solicitor concluded that with antibiotics and a rehydrating drip he could have made a full recovery and survived for at least another two years.
The hospice and the doctors who treated Mr Jones continue to deny liability, but his widow has now accepted an £18,000 out-of-court settlement after being told she would otherwise lose her legal aid.
Yesterday she said: 'If they'd only treated his chest infection, my husband could well still be alive today.
'We fought in the hospice to get Jack the right treatment and they blocked us, making us feel we were a nuisance.
'I was worried it was pneumonia, I wanted them to check his chest, but they wouldn't.'
Mrs Jones and the family want to know whether her husband was treated under the Liverpool Care Pathway.
She added: 'Jack was the life and soul of the party. He was a true gentleman. As far as I'm concerned, his death was manslaughter. It's barbaric and I don't want any other family to go through what we've had to.'
The 75-year-old, of Childwall, Liverpool, plans to report Dr Coackley and another doctor to the General Medical Council. Dr Coackley, 45, worked with Professor John Ellershaw at the hospice in Liverpool at a time when he was heading the writing of the LCP policy.
One article they published together last year said: 'Futile treatments should . . . be discontinued at this time and consideration should be given to the discontinuation of antibiotics and blood tests.'
Mrs Jones's solicitor, Michael Danby, said: 'This is a particularly sad case as it was entirely preventable. If they had examined his chest, they would have diagnosed the infection, and he could have been treated.'
The hospice's lawyer, Dorothy Flower, said it had settled the case to enable Mrs Jones to grieve for her husband, but did not accept liability. 'Some things are done for economic reasons, and a case like this costs a huge amount of money, which would do nobody any good,' she said.
Marie Curie Cancer Care said it could not comment on Mr Jones's case due to patient confidentiality. However, it insists that the Liverpool Care Pathway requires doctors to monitor patients regularly.
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