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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 01, 2011, 07:58:38 PM
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A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation - at her own hospital.
Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery.
Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust - the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
He said: 'I don't really know why she died. I did not get a reason from the hospital. We all want to know for closure. She got weaker and weaker as she waited and operations were put off.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371861/NHS-director-dies-operation-cancelled-times-hospital.html#ixzz1IK63ohbv
Ironic or Karma ?
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She got weaker and weaker as she waited and operations were put off.'
From what I know, they don't like to operate on you if you are weak. Sounds to me her body was giving up and she never regained enough stamina to go under the knife.
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We should feel bad about this.
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We should feel bad about this.
Definitely, we should.
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We should feel bad about this.
Why, because someone in her position couldn't be helped, or because this is a portent of things to come here?
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Why, because someone in her position couldn't be helped, or because this is a portent of things to come here?
I like your words a "portant of things to come" Sparky, much like " By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes."
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I like your words a "portant of things to come" Sparky, much like " By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes."
THAT'S the shortest post you have ever written :hyper:
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A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation - at her own hospital.
Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex
Bummer...
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It should serve as a warning...this is the NHS--England's version of Obamacare from way back. My grandmother met the same fate as this woman in the 80's. "Nice" to see it hasn't changed all that much since then. Can't help wondering with how similar the circumstances are if this very woman might not have been the one delaying my own grandmother's surgeries back then when she was a lower level paper pusher.