UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THE UK: "Filth and shame"

LONDON TIMES:

Patients lie naked, half washed and forgotten, their sick and ageing flesh exposed to everyone, while nurses rush elsewhere. It is commonplace to have to walk to filthy mixed lavatories with gowns wide open at the back. At a time of sickness and anxiety many people are profoundly embarrassed to be surrounded by a clutter of bed pans, colostomy bags, nakedness, cries of pain and sweat, blood and tears — their own and other people’s. [...]

The late Eileen Fahey, for instance, dying of cancer, was put onto a mixed geriatric ward where confused people wandered about without supervision. One man with dementia regularly masturbated at the nurses’ station and tried to get into women patients’ beds; he was a threat to them all but staff took no notice, according to her daughter Maureen. Other patients have to give answers to intimate questions in the hearing of other patients. One deaf old man was repeatedly asked when he last had an erection, until tears ran down his cheeks.

A former midwife described eloquently on Radio 4 the indignities of being in a 24-bed mixed-sex ward, stripped of all dignity and intimidated. Bedlam was the word she used, and it applies even more accurately to the secure psychiatric mixed ward in London endured by Susan Craig last year, after a breakdown. She suffered regular sexual harassment, with mentally ill men groping her and exposing themselves. The nurses disbelieved her and told her husband she was “flaunting herself”.

... mixed-sex wards are not the worst of NHS hospitals’ problems, although they demonstrate them. They demonstrate the incompetence and deviousness of hospital management in general, and they also show something worse. In all the stories I’ve come across what stands out is the ignorance, incompetence, laziness and heartlessness of all too many nurses, who are allowed to neglect and insult their patients without supervision and without sanction — in single-sex wards just as much as mixed.

THIS IS WHAT HILLARY AND HER DEMOCRAT COMRADES WANT TO DO TO OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

OF COURSE, HILLARY AND HER COMRADES WILL NEVER HAVE TO SUFFER LIKE THE REST OF US UNDER A NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

JUST LIKE AL GORE, WHO LIVES HIGH ON THE CARBON-HOG WHILE DEMANDING THE REST OF US TIGHTEN OUR CARBON-BELTS - HILLARY WILL PROBABLY TAKE A PRIVATE JET TO THE MAYO CLINIC WHEN SHE GETS REALLY SICK.

DON'T BELIEVE ME!? REMEMBER: THE CLINTON'S AND THE GORE'S - BIG ALLIES OF THEIR COMRADES IN THE NEA, AND BIG OPPONENTS OF SCHOOL VOUCHERS - SENT THEIR KIDS TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS.