Thousands of patients in the NHS are put onto the Liverpool Care Pathway each year in their last days and hours.
It aims to give patients a 'good death' by avoiding unnecessary and burdensome medical intervention but there have been accusations it hastens death because it can involve the removal of artifical hydration and nutrition. That's a three-syllable apiece way of saying they starve or die for lack of water...
A report into palliative care in the NHS found that in one, unnamed hospital trust, half of families were not told that their loved one had been placed on the LCP and in a quarter of trusts, one in three families were not informed. "Back off, lady! I'm a trained medical professional!"
Dr Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist at East Kent University Hospitals, said it was vital that more information was made available about the use of the Liverpool Care Pathway in the NHS. "Eventually we all come under review, y'know."
He said: "We need to know how frequently it is being used. Data should be released showing the proportion of patients who die in hospital who were on the Liverpool Care Pathway and how many were on it against their will or that of their family." You can starve to death or die for lack of water at home. It's cheaper and they don't wake you at 3 in the morning to check your blood pressure.
#2
Oh Boy, I guess that means they've found a cure for the Social Security shortfall?
Reminds me of Logan's Run.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
12/02/2011 10:15 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Since authoritarian regimes are big on paper work, hopefully the leadership of the NHS have appropriate (*) by their names so when they show up finally for their 'care' they'll be given exactly what they dish out for others. [Yeah, yeah, I know they'll find a weasel way to avoid what they've dictated for others. They always do.]
In which we get to play another round of 'Name That Party!'
Jon Corzine, the former head of bankrupt commodities brokerage firm MF Global, has been subpoenaed to testify about his role in the collapse before a congressional committee.
Corzine hasn't been heard from publicly since MF Global imploded in October, the result of bad bets on European sovereign debt, a risky gamble reportedly pushed by Corzine himself.
The House Agriculture Committee, which is looking into the collapse, will question Corzine at a hearing on Dec. 8.
No they won't: they'll ask him questions and he'll plead the Fifth.
Federal investigators are still trying to locate as much as $1.2 billion in client funds that disappeared as the investment firm collapsed.
Corzine is a former governor and U.S. senator from New Jersey,
from which party again?
who, before entering politics a decade ago, was a co-chair of Goldman Sachs.
In congressional hearings already held, questions have been raised whether Corzine used his extensive Wall Street and political ties to shield his risky strategy from regulators who might have otherwise taken issue with his aggressive bets on the troubled euro zone.
Of course he did. That and his rolodex are why MF Global hired him to be CEO.
MF Global filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 31, having reportedly gambled $6.3 billion on European debt just as euro zone crisis was hitting its peak. Corzine resigned his post as chief executive of the firm a few days after the bankruptcy filing and hasn't been heard from publicly since.
Investigators have questioned whether Corzine authorized the use of client money to be mixed with MF Global money to help cover losses as the European debt crisis deepened. Investment firms are barred from mingling their clients' money with the firm's proprietary investments.
When they do mingle the money, it's called 'theft', 'fraud', and a bunch of other crimes. Notice that no one at MF Global, from Corzine on down, has been charged with a crime yet. Guess it's going to take a while to investigate...
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/02/2011 11:47 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
In which we get to play another round of 'Name That Party!'
Abound Solar, given a $400 million Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee for a project expected to create 400 permanent jobs, receives private financial backing through an investment firm founded by a fundraising bundler for President Obama.
The Sunlight Foundation notes that Bohemian Companies, which was founded by billionaire and Obama bundler Pat Stryker, participated with other companies in the "second institutional equity round of financing" in 2008 for Abound Solar, which recieved $104 million total through that round of financing.
Stryker gave $50,000 to Obama's inauguration, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and raised a further $87,000 for the inauguration. Stryker has since donated $35,800 to the 2012 Obama Victory Fund, Sunlight reports.
One year after Bohemian invested in Abound, and a year before the DOE granted a loan guarantee, Stryker visited the White House. "The White House did not confirm that the visitor was the Pat Stryker in question and did not provide details about the meeting," Sunlight says.
The New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called the New York Police Department (NYPD) his own army, saying he is a mini-president of his very own mini-country.
"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have," The New York Observer quoted Bloomberg as saying during a speech at MIT university.
However, Bloomberg also raised the possibility that he might seek the presidency. He claimed the executive duties performed by mayors have prepared him for the White House better than other political positions.
"The difference between my level of government and other levels of government is that action takes place at the city level," Mayor Bloomberg said.
"The cities and mayors are where you deal with crime, you deal with real immigration problems, you deal with health problems, you deal with picking up the garbage," he added.
Recently, Bloomberg has been under heavy criticism for the NYPD's actions in Zuccotti Park, when police moved to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from their camp site using pepper spray, tear gas and excessive force.
The city also closed airspace in lower Manhattan to prevent news helicopters from taking aerial footage of the police crackdown, while reporters were prevented from witnessing the scene and some were even arrested.
The Occupy movement emerged after a group of demonstrators gathered in New York's financial district on September 17 to protest the unjust distribution of wealth in the country and the excessive influence of big corporations on US policies.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Well, his ego isn't "mini." That's for damn sure.
#2
Should have waited to use such silly metaphors for his eventual book. Now they will be used to end any reelection chances. Not that that would be a bad thing.
#5
Gonna be lots of jockeying among Dems with ambitions, especially if Bill and Hillary decide his generous 'speaking fees' outweigh another stint in downtown DC.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Thousands of patients in the NHS are put onto the Liverpool Care Pathway each year in their last days and hours.
The New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called the New York Police Department (NYPD) his own army, saying he is a mini-president of his very own mini-country.
