62 years old discharged from hospital with chest infection 23 miles from home and you're walking?

Question

UK makes you sick
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/11/hospital-patient-peter-rees-walks-23-walk-home_n_2456301.html?utm_hp_ref=uk?ncid=GEP

Answer 1

Conservatives don't want us to have free health care,who put them in power,the NHS is in chaos and we all just sit and watch it happen,here is another disgusting example ..



A police officer who visited a hospital after a dying patient made a 999 call begging for a drink told an inquest he witnessed nursing staff ignoring his requests for water.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171024/Kane-Gorny-Patient-died-thirst-hospital-denied-medication-doctors-did-know-there.html#ixzz2Hi2AKGNW

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Answer 2

Personally I would refuse to go in the middle of the night, that seems to be the cause of the problem discharging patients at 2.00 am is just stupid, what are the police going to do if you refuse?, perhaps if people who were treated like that started tearing up donor cards we might get better treatment

Answer 3

I was in houston. I had called an ambulance with chest pains. I didn't even bring my purse into the ambulance. The discharged me quickly when I didn't have my proof of insurance. I was feelling bad and started walking about 2 blocks away (big blocks); I went into a service station. I asked them to call me a taxi. No payphones and I am penniless. They were smart A but I knew the # off the top of my head because I was a 411 operator. I took the taxi home and at least had grabbed my keys. I went in to bring the taxi back his money. Yea, they are a piece of work. I went to a cardiologist and he did the surgery through the groin. When I got the bill from the hospital. I wrote them a nasty letter and told them to collect from my ins and sent them proof of ins.

Answer 4

I'm sorry but we're only hearing one side of the story here. He said he left his wallet at home, so why did he not get a taxi & pay at the other end

Since when have taxis started asking for payment at the start of a journey?

Answer 5

This is getting to be a common practice.



The hospitals do not want the trouble and expense of people dying in hospital.



I know of 2 cases where an ill person was discharged just before they died.

Answer 6

The medical system is completely screwed up. I was watching CNN the other day, and I saw a story about a man who was recovering from brain surgery who was dropped off in a neighborhood that wasn't even where he lived. He was so delirious from the surgery he couldn't remember his name or address for hours. Thank God a few good people cared for him until he remember his address.

Let this be a lesson to anyone reading. If you are going to have surgery, make sure a friend or family member that knows where you live will pick you up and drive you home.

Answer 7

God knows whats happening to this country bet if it was a Muslim they would have been taken home in a taxi or wreak the havoc Of Racism If I had the money needed I would go to Australia to live Great Britain is no longer Its now called multicultural society no more Great Britain why , we have no shipyards and engineering like in the past, we are finished as Great Britain we are now Multiculural state !! Like That Name !!!!

Answer 8

There's two sides to every story

Why did a relative or friend not follow the ambulance to the hospital?

Why did none of his family bother about him?

Why did he not get someone to come and pick him up?

Why did a relative not send a taxi for him?

My nephews wife was recently taken to hospital 100 miles away,

and her husband followed in the car

He stayed in a cheap hotel every night until his wife got out of hospital

Seems strange that he complains, when it is his family he should be complaining about

as they obviously don't care about him and that is very,very sad.

Answer 9

That is sick, I read this story earlier... who would send anyone off at 2am unless they had a lift waiting there or had transport organised..... it is madness & must be really stupid people working there that night who do not give a toss about the welfare of the patients.... the poor man must have felt absolutely shattered & afraid walking so late at night......... disgusting it is

Answer 10

He was that ill that neither his wife nor any of his four children attended hospital with him?



He didn't have one friend, neighbour or relative that could pick him up?



He couldn't arrange a taxi to collect him and pay for it at the other end?





This man chose to walk home - he could have made different choices had he wanted. What do you suggest as an alternative - send him home in an ambulance? What if that ambulance was needed to save some ones life? The NHS pays for his taxi? Instead of funding care for cancer patients or genuinely needy people? Maybe the police could have picked him up from hospital in a car with two officers - that's value for money!!!

Answer 11

I don't suppose you want to find out which bloody party she supports? Yes, that nasty 'nurse' who all-but threw him out and what about those 'men' standing by in the ambulance bay?

Creepy lot, let's hope they receive the same 'care' one day - that would be justified - but not for their relatives - let's hope they think on that!



Any prizes for guessing?



She won't be a Conservative or Liberal voter will she? Just another sad-sack fed up to the back teeth Labourite who knows she's not going anywhere, for a long time, because of the carnage left behind by the Blair and Brown administrations who have all-but destroyed the National Health Service by turning it into a Doctors and Consultants Wealth Service.



No, the UK does not make me sick - just some of the bloody die-hard cretins which inhabit the UK who still see a sun shining out of the arses of Blair and Brown! They really must have mental health issues!

Answer 12

Typical example of our "caring" N.H.S. I wonder what has happened to all the dedicated and caring Doctors and Nurses that I knew years ago.

Answer 13

Cradle to the grave,health care ?

Now it's not even hospital to your door.

We are fked.

Go private,or go fck yourself.

Amen.

Answer 14

Where was his family?

Answer 15

do you want the NHS to pay for taxis