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| Britain |
| NHS death rate is one of worst in the West |
| 2013-09-12 |
| Patients 50% more likely to die of neglect than in US, says study Clinical care trails the rest of the Western World, it has emerged Britons have five times the chance of dying from pneumonia than U.S. NHS death rates are much higher than many western European countries Things to look forward to with Zero-Care |
| Posted by:Bright Pebbles |
| #7 "The Liverpool care pathway is to be abolished FTFY |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-09-12 14:36 |
| #6 NHS Liverpool care pathway for dying patients to be abolished after review The Liverpool care pathway is to be abolished following a government-commissioned review which heard that hospital staff wrongly interpreted its guidance for care of the dying, leading to stories of patients who were drugged and deprived of fluids in their last weeks of life. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2013-09-12 14:15 |
| #5 Well, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did, not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-12 11:15 |
| #4 I want to die in mid-stride or mid-stroke, and as to the latter, I ain't talking about golf or swimming... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-12 09:44 |
| #3 Yep, we knock them off before they can even get to the hospital in Chicago, Da Capital, Detroit, New Orleans, etc. Can't count as dying in hospital when the chalk outline's on the street or sidewalk. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-12 09:10 |
| #2 It makes sense, when you "Go to Hospital" for everything, there's a umber of people who can't recover. Looks like the British have found that number. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-09-12 08:23 |
| #1 coming to America. A solution to the Social Security funding problem |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-12 07:47 |