Wednesday - May 16, 2012
FOREIGN DOCTORS WITH MINIMUM LANGUAGE SKILLS
I’m not trying to compete with Drew for the prizewinning moonbat warning award, and while this may not beat his posting of that poor guy who got fired cos he turned in a found gun, this sure does come close if it doesn’t tie.
For some time now there has apparently been quite a problem with foreign doctors working in this country, whose English leaves much to be desired. In fact, there have been reports of doctors who hardly understood the language of the country they were attending to patients in. There have been some disasters and a promise to do more to vet doctors from other countries more closely. Now wouldn’t you think that should have been the rule from the get-go?
Hang there ... wait a minute. This is gonna get sticky. Not so cut and dried as you may think. Remember, this isn’t the USA where we all speak Spanish.
Right. Not funny.
Here’s the headline.
Foreign doctors who can’t speak proper English to be struck off: NHS must check language skills
By JAMES CHAPMANDoctors will be struck off if they cannot speak proper English amid fears that patients’ lives are being put at risk, the Health Secretary will say today.
Hospitals and GPs’ surgeries will also be legally obliged to make sure foreign medics have a proper grasp of the language and the way the NHS works.
Andrew Lansley plans to change the rules so doctors found to fall short of the required standards can be permanently barred from practising in this country.
Under the existing system, as many as 23,000 doctors from Europe have registered to work in the NHS despite never having been asked if they can speak English properly.
This gets interesting right about here.
To comply with EU freedom-of-movement requirements, continental doctors and nurses are allowed to work without any formal NHS training.
They can be struck off only if they are found to have harmed patients.
What? So they get to work but the public has to be open to just one mistake. As in a deadly one? Like this?
In one notorious case, pensioner David Gray died after out-of-hours locum Dr Daniel Ubani gave him up to 20 times the recommended amount of diamorphine to treat pain in his kidneys.
The German doctor had failed an English test for one primary care trust, so simply applied to work at another.
(he was German like I’m a rocket scientist. He was NOT German. Does Ubani look like a German word or name? )
UNEDITED AND ALL OF STORY HERE
I only used that article to set the stage. This one is more recent and falls into another category.
Guy visits doctor who happens to be Spanish but.
no entiendo Inglés. okay I exaggerated a bit the doc may have understood a little but not enough.
Because the doctor reported to authorities that the fellow, who was a bus driver, was also a drunk. But he made NO tests. Nice huh?
So now the patient is out of a job.
A whole year of hell, thanks to a foreign doctor
By KELVIN MACKENZIE
Last week, I raised the uncomfortable issue of foreign doctors working in this country, and targeted the offensive behaviour of a Spanish consultant. I have since received, and investigated to my satisfaction, an even more shocking case.
Bus driver Kevin Jones, aged 53, turned up with his wife, Samantha, to see Dr Antonio Serrano, a Spaniard, at his surgery in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
Mr Jones was suffering pain from swollen legs. Almost immediately, the doctor diagnosed gout and asked how much he drank. He said he might have a pint or two after work and if he went out with his wife and friends at the weekend, a couple of spirits.
When he discovered Mr Jones drove a bus for a living — and had done for 30 years — his attitude changed and, without any research into any kind of alcohol dependency — such as liver or blood tests — he said he would write to the DVLA to have his licence revoked.
Mr Jones told me: ‘This is where the language barrier hit home. He took it that I drank every night, and when I tried to explain, he wouldn’t listen and just spoke over me.’
Several days later, Dr Serrano wrote to the DVLA. Mr Jones asked to see another doctor at the surgery, who agreed to send Mr Jones for blood, liver and kidney tests over a six-week period, all of which showed that Mr Jones was not alcohol dependent.
By now, though, Mr Jones had been signed off sick by his employers, Countryliner.
Astonishingly, without asking for any evidence, the DVLA took the doctor’s word and revoked not only his bus driver’s licence but also his car and motorbike licence.
Mr Jones, who earned £17,000 a year, says: ‘It was a living hell. I could not persuade the DVLA that I was not alcohol dependent, and the only person who could get it revoked was Dr Serrano, who refused to do so.’
By July last year, Mr Jones resigned from the bus company while he battled to clear his name. He had seen other doctors who, although they could not rule out gout, said it was most likely he had arthritis.
READ THE REST OF IT HERE AND THE DOCTOR’S REPLY
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Permalink • Saturday - April 28, 2012
Bang Zoom!
thanks to Rich K
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Permalink • Tuesday - April 10, 2012
the cure for snoring …. ouch?
There’s an old expression that goes bite your tongue before speaking in anger.
I don’t know of any expressions with regard to those who snore, but did see this today and immediately thought OUCH when I read their very large headline.
CUT OFF A BIT OF YOUR TONGUE?
Good grief. Just the thought of it sends shivers.
Be easier and cheaper to start using that spare room.
Besides, I’m not too sure with no offence intended to the good Herr Doktor, but were I ever to have that sort of treatment or anything close, I want to be fully able to pronounce the doc’s name. Especially in this case when I first said it wrong and it came out, Gotcha.
I am terrible. My attitude is guilt inducing.
It’s a rather long article but here are the highlights in a manner of speaking. There’s lots more at the link. Actually, it was interesting. I didn’t think at first it would be. I just kept seeing the headline. But I started reading and got caught up in it.
Want to stop snoring? Cut off a bit of your tongue
By ANNA HODGEKISSTHE SURGEON
Mr Bhik Kotecha is a consultant surgeon at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London.
Around 40 per cent of the adult population are snorers and 10 per cent of these have some degree of sleep apnoea.
There are two forms — obstructive sleep apnoea is the most common.This is where an obstruction — perhaps the tonsils, the tongue flopping back in the throat or nasal polyps — blocks the airway.
Sometimes the obstruction is caused by the muscles and soft tissues in the throat relaxing and collapsing so much that they cause a total blockage.
Men are twice as likely to suffer as women. That’s because they are more likely to store excess weight around the neck, which puts extra pressure on the tissues so they are more likely to collapse.there are serious medical implications. Because it deprives the body of oxygen, the condition increases the chance of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Memory and concentration can also be impaired.
The good news is that GPs are increasingly aware of the condition.The condition is diagnosed with a sleep study and the recommended treatment is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).
A mask connected to a machine blows air into the throat, keeping the airway open — but drop-out rates are high.
In terms of surgery, until now it has been difficult to access the base of the tongue.But a new robotic technique pioneered in the U.S. means we have 360 degree access to the area and a 3D view.
The laser shaves off the top layer of the back of the tongue. It works at 300 degrees Celsius and seals the blood vessels as it goes, so there should be no bleeding. The procedure takes around two hours.The operation costs £12,000 to £15,000 and is available on the NHS, or privately at the Princess Grace Hospital in London. ($19 to $23,000)
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Permalink • Thursday - March 29, 2012
lost in translation?
Swedish woman denied ambulance because she was still conscious, dies
Swedish health authorities have come under criticism over the death of a woman whose repeated calls to emergency services were ignored because she was still able to talk.
Jill Soderberg, 22, died in her home in the town of Timra, 241 miles (389km) north of Stockholm, on January 20, 2011, shortly after she had placed her third and last call to SOS Alarm emergency services requesting an ambulance, news website The Local reported Tuesday.
However, every time she rang, as per procedure, operators connected her to Vasternorrland County nurses who deemed that she was not sufficiently ill for an ambulance because she could still speak.
“I can’t breathe,” Soderberg, who was suffering chest pains, told operators, according to transcripts of the calls. “I want you to come and help me.”
“The operator considered her to still be communicating verbally and decided that she didn’t need an ambulance,” Jill Soderberg’s mother, Annika Soderberg, said.
The elder Soderberg said she had asked SOS Alarm to explain the logic behind refusing someone an ambulance on the basis that they were speaking.
“How could you even call for an ambulance in the first place?” she said, adding, “No one could answer that one.”
So much for nationalized health care.
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Permalink • Friday - February 10, 2012
Screw Up In Hants
The country of England is divided into a confusing array of local areas, some of which have a level of government. These are called counties, although some are quite small. There are 83 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, and there are 48 ceremonial counties, and there are 4 official divisions, and there are 9 regions, and each category covers the same area as the others. It’s confusing, but it’s England, and that’s what they are there for. Have you ever tried to read an English postal address? Good luck. West of London is a county, a zone, that might actually comprise two counties, Hampshire and Southhampton. This is Peiper’s corner of the land, and, it being England, both areas are called Hants. And this makes sense if you’re English. And the Nanny State is alive and well there, full speed ahead.
The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to drive down teenage pregnancies. As many as nine secondary schools in the city are thought to have been involved. But it has caused a backlash from parents who weren’t aware that their daughters had been fitted with the 4cm device, which sits under the skin. It is currently unknown exactly how many youngsters have taken part in the scheme.
Health chiefs have defended sexual health services going into schools, saying teenage pregnancies had dropped by 22 per cent as a result.
But campaigners from the Family Education Trust say the implant fuels the flames of promiscuity by giving girls licence to have underage sex. Norman Wells, director of the trust, has urged health chiefs to look at ways of discouraging sexual activity amongst children in the first place.
He said: “Schemes like these inevitably lead to boys putting pressure on girls to have sex. “They can now tell their girlfriends: ‘You can get the school clinic to give you an implant, so you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant.’ “They’ll tell them they don’t have to face the embarrassment of going to see their doctor, and it’s all confidential so their mum doesn’t need to know a thing. “Parents send their children to school to receive a good education, not to be undermined by health workers who give their children contraceptives behind their backs.”
A 13-year-old girl who had a contraceptive implant fitted at school without her mother’s knowledge said she wanted the procedure because she “felt like having sex”.
The teenager is one of 33 schoolgirls who have been fitted with the device in Southampton, Hants, as part of a controversial government initiative to drive down teenage pregnancies.
Now she has broken her silence to defend her actions, saying she believes she acted responsibly by taking measures to stop herself getting pregnant.
And her mother insisted she was “proud” of her daughter, although she claimed performing a minor surgical procedure at school without parental consent was “morally wrong”.
Emotionless detached promiscuity is one of the main tools in the Red Handbook for destroying a civilization. An amoral culture with no family values, no sense of nationalism, and a ruined economy is little more than a baying mob, ripe for takeover. But that’s a side issue, a root cause. Back to the story.
HORRY CLAP ARE THERE NO PARENTS IN BLOODY ENGLAND ANY LONGER???? What do they do, drop the babies out of the womb and deliver them to the council creche for raising, feeding, and indoctrination???
Yeah, I know, 13 is a tough age for girls. They’re both stupid and rebellious, generally going around in a state of near depression all the time, hating everything for every reason, embarrassed by everything, and all desperately mad to fit in. Isn’t this why the English invented horses? The pony club? Give the girls something to do to keep them out of trouble, something they can be responsible for and care about, something they can do in small groups of other girls while talking about the near future and trying to deal with the sudden hormonal soup of their bodies, something that doesn’t abandon them instantly to the predatory world? I’m not a dad, or an expert on little girls, but I was pretty sure the natural progression was years of pink, then horses, then sport, then boys. Not from Pink directly to I’m sotted, shag me arse in this alley, no worries!” in one go.
What happened to parenting? Morals? Self-respect? Maybe they really do need Sharia law. Or isolated boarding schools with really tall spiky iron fences and warders.
And the schools. Oh my, the schools. Nerve much, or are they acting in utter desperation because they have to? If the parents have given up or never bothered, and the big bowls of free condoms in the hallways aren’t doing the job, and no one else will do a thing to try and keep little children from having littler children, are they stepping up as batsmen to defend this sticky wicket? Or are they one of the main driving powers of Marxist based anarchy, forcing sexualization on the nation’s youth, like it or not?
13 is far too young an age to be sexually active, even in a country where the general age of consent is just 16. Not that this is only England’s problem, or one that belongs only to the 21st century. Not that I didn’t know a bevy of girls back in my day (1975) who had rounded their heels at that age or even earlier, and were defiantly proud of it, no matter how many abortions they had had. I knew of at least a dozen of them, and as far as I know, they all grew up to be trash.
Far more info at the above links, with links to many more similar articles.
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Permalink • Sunday - February 05, 2012
Something New Under The Sun
Silly me, I thought this had something to do with new muzzie converts going all Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Nope, that’s another psychotic ailment entirely.
It seems that a dozen or more girls at Le Roy High School out in western New York (Genesee County) all developed some kind of neurological tic this fall. CDC looked into it, and found no disease vector, allergen, toxic, drug, insect, or pollutant cause. And thus we have a new ailment. Can’t wait until it gets used as an excuse for murder or mayhem in a court of law. Oh come on, that was just me being sarcas-tic.
Conversion disorder made the headlines Friday as the New York State Health Department released its preliminary findings regarding 12 girls in LeRoy who have been diagnosed with the disorder beginning late last year. It was also announced the doctor treating the 12 cases had potentially identified at least four more in the last two days.
What is conversion disorder?
According to the Mayo Clinic, the diagnosis of “conversion disorder” was originally conceived as a term to describe a physical health problem that has its roots in a mental or emotional crisis. A person who is diagnosed with a conversion disorder typically cannot control the physical manifestation of the mental or emotional crisis in question, and cannot control the physical symptoms that result.
Conversion disorders are usually fairly temporary, although while the person is suffering from one it can cause severe difficulties and distress. Symptoms typically include sudden limitations or changes in either a person’s physical movement or one or more of their senses.
How is it treated?
CNN reports there are a range of treatments available. Because the root causes are stress-related, treatments often center on counseling of some kind. Anti-stress or anti-anxiety medications might also be temporarily given. In cases where the physical manifestations of the disorder are particularly troublesome or limiting, physical therapy may also be prescribed, and hypnosis and even magnetic stimulation of the brain may be attempted as therapy to aid an afflicted person.
Significant life stressors were identified in 11 of the cases. Eight of the cases were diagnosed as conversion disorder by the primary treating physicians and pediatric neurologist; three cases had preceding medical illness associated with tics, and one case did not seek medical attention.
Which is really saying that being a high school girl can be stressful. Yeah, and?
Maybe we should call this Mean Girls Syndrome, and find out if the 12 in question had been subject to bullying or excessive social pressures. But it’s good to know the government sprang into action, tested anything and everything, ruled out all sorts of toxins, bad food, local superfund sites, drug abuse, and so on. A+ for effort; they gave it a big Dr. House try. And came up with nothing.
Western NY is an unusual place. Lots of odd and unique things have happened there in the past. Mountains and lakes that used to be the seashore, long ages ago. Salt mines. Deep beds of natural gas and frakking. This is the land of Joeseph Smith and the Second Great Awakening (19th century Religious Revival). It’s the land where Free Love and Communes were first tried 150 years ago. It’s where the Women’s Suffrage movement started out, and where the Underground Railroad had its terminus. It’s where modern camera film was invented, and the propane torch. And Genesee Cream Ale, one of the thinnest beers going, that keeps on selling decade after decade. I’m not at all surprised that something new and mysterious has come up there. I’d like to say it’s something in the water, but CDC has ruled that out.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 03, 2012
Brits get permission from Brussels to language test docs and nurses. whose country is this anyway?
Well golly gee folks. Sorry about the mistakes and mishaps and the deaths due to doctors who don’t speak the language. We’ve learned something we never knew before. Ya think we should maybe tighten up the requirements starting with language skills? Ooooh. Now that’s a splendid idea. BUT FIRST …
Britain must follow the rules that most others ignore and get permission from the powers that leach in Brussels. Once their permission is given, Britain will be given the “right” to test doctors and nurses. Jeesh.
oh btw. The doctor that brought this all to a head is described as German. He is NOT.
I don’t care what his bought papers may say. He is not and will never be German.
Which in no way excuses the system that allowed him to flourish at the expense of patients.
Here’s the entire article unedited. Last year and the year before, this issue was all over the news.
This is what a multi-culture and diverse one world produces. Actually, it all started in 2008. But hey, the Brits got permission and that’s what counts. Right?
Doctors from the EU to face language tests following landmark ruling
By SOPHIE BORLANDBritain has won the right to test foreign doctors and nurses on their ability to speak English following a landmark ruling from Brussels.
There is mounting concern that patients are being put in danger by a ban that prevents watchdogs from checking the language skills of European doctors and nurses.This was triggered by the death of 70-year-old David Gray in 2008 at the hands of an incompetent German GP.
Dr Daniel Ubani gave him a lethal overdose of morphine on his first shift. Ubani had been allowed to cover an out of hours shift despite having a poor grasp of English and unacceptable medical standards.At present neither the General Medical Council, the doctors’ regulator, nor the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the equivalent body for nurses, is allowed to carry out language tests on workers flying in from the continent as it is deemed to infringe the EU’s ‘freedom of movement’ laws.
But proposals from the European Commission yesterday paved the way for such checks to be carried out. For the first time the EC said that the ‘checking of language knowledge’ can be carried out for the ‘protection of patients’.
In addition, EU member states will have a duty to alert other countries when a doctor or nurse is struck off so they cannot simply move abroad and carry on working. The proposals will have to be agreed by all EU members before they are made into law and even then it may take several years for the GMC and the NMC to bring in the tests.
Nonetheless, the ruling has been hailed as a major step forward by leading healthcare workers and the relatives of patients who have died as a result of the current lax regime.
The GP son of Mr Gray, Stuart Gray, said: ‘If the GMC is going to be able to check the language of doctors at registration that is a major step forward for the safety of patients.But what we push for next is for them all to undergo checks on their clinical competence. My father was killed by a doctor who was found to be clinically incompetent.’
Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing said: ‘The ability to communicate clearly with patients is an essential part of good nursing care.’Earlier this year Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced new rules that would ensure hospitals had a ‘duty’ to language test EU doctors.
But at the time there was concern that not all trusts would do this – and the rules did not include any provision for nurses.The current EU legislation bans national tests carried out by the GMC or NMC but it does not prohibit hospitals or primary care trusts performing checks on individuals before employing them.
Under Mr Lansley’s plan, each hospital would employ a ‘responsible officer’ whose job would be to ensure all foreign doctors were tested on English before being allowed to work.
Under these new proposals the GMC and the NMC will be allowed to carry out national tests before doctors and nurses can even be registered. Unless they are registered they cannot even apply for a job.
There are thought to be thousands of European doctors and nurses working in hospitals and surgeries who have never been given language checks.
Figures show that there are some 21,000 doctors on the GMC register who gained their qualifications in EU countries.
Although the Government has urged hospitals and primary care trusts to carry out their own checks on staff before employing them in the absence of a national test, many do not.
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 14, 2011
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Another one for the Obviously Obvious files ...
:eyeroll: How much alcohol a person drinks directly affects how likely they are to have unsafe sex, a new review shows.
On average, every 0.1 milligram per milliliter increase in study participants’ blood alcohol levels raised their likelihood of having unprotected sex by 5 percent, the researchers found.
Canadian researchers looked at 12 studies that examined the link between people’s blood alcohol content (BAC) and how likely they were to say they would use a condom during intercourse. In all of the experiments, researchers had split the study participants into two groups, and asked one group consume alcohol, while the other group did not drink. Participants were then reported whether they would engage in unsafe sex.
The findings help explain why people who’ve been drinking engage in unsafe sex despite knowing better, study researcher Jürgen Rehm, the director of the Social and Epidemiological Research at Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said in a statement. “Alcohol is influencing their decision processes.”
The galling thing is that a whole group of “scientists” got paid, probably for the better part of a year, to do this study.
I’d put in a bid with the EU for funding to study how a lack of drinking water causes dehydration, but I don’t think it would go through given their recent legal decisions. Come on already people, wake the hell up. DUH.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 01, 2011
should medical staff, dentists, doctors with hiv, be allowed to treat patients?
Lets here it for the Department of Health. They want us to be brave. Well, I am not ashamed to confess I am a world class coward when it comes to this sort of thing. Sorry but I’d be damn nervous knowing someone with HIV was gonna be working on me. Wait. Sorry? Why should I be sorry for being a bit paranoid about this?
Take a look. Would you feel comfortable with this?
HIV sufferers could be allowed to work as surgeons and dentists
By SOPHIE BORLAND
HIV sufferers could soon be able to work as surgeons or dentists.
The Department of Health wants to lift the current ban because it claims any risk to patients is ‘very low’.
Health workers who are HIV positive are banned from performing most surgery or dental treatment in case they cut themselves with their instruments and infect patients with their blood.
They can become GPs, hospital doctors, nurses or midwives and carry out nearly all day-to-day tasks, including giving injections, which are considered low risk.
But the Department of Health wants to lift the ban because it says the chance of a health worker infecting a patient is ‘negligible’.
uh huh well, I’m on the chicken side of this issue.
It has undertaken research suggesting the risk of a patient catching HIV from their doctor, dentist or surgeon is less than one in five million, similar to that of being killed by lightning.
Officials say the risk can be further reduced by ensuring any infected member of staff takes medication to reduce their virus count, which means it cannot easily be passed on.
The Government says there have so far been no recorded cases of patients in Britain catching HIV from a healthcare worker, although it has happened abroad.
In the U.S. a dentist with HIV infected six patients, while a gynaecologist in Spain passed on the illness to one woman.
And in France a nurse is known to have passed on the virus to one patient and an orthopaedic surgeon infected another.
The Department of Health launched a consultation yesterday on its proposals to lift the ban and in the next few weeks will gather feedback from organisations and the public.
Officials are expected to make a final decision next year.
Right. Here we go again . Feedback from the public. Translation. We’re going to hold another one of our “consultations” where our decision has already been made.
They say the risk to patients is just one in five million. Oh I feel better already.
some reader comments from the Daily Mail
1 in 5 million”??! With 51 million people in England, 10 people are potentially at risk of getting HIV just because a surgeon or dentist accidently gets a bit of blood in you. Absolutly horrific....there are plenty of other jobs you can give people like this, you wouldn’t make a blind person a bus driver, why do this?!
- Alex, UK, 1/12/2011 11:201 in 5 million, so that means you have a better chance of catching HIV than winning the lottery.- Patrick , london, 01/12/2011 08:25### And usualy there is a winner every week! This proposal is a bit like saying that it is fine for “Typhoid Mary” to cook for you as long as she washes her hands first! No thanks! In all seriousness, there are plenty of HIV positive people out there who need regular medical treatment, It would make sense for HIV positive medical staff to concentrate on looking after those that are already infected and have nothing to lose. there is no need for them to be out of a job because of their condition. and there is no need for exposing the rest of us to a small but totally unececcary risk of a deadly disease in order to satisfy a political agenda!
- Paul, Surrey, 1/12/2011 11:1
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Permalink • Friday - November 04, 2011
having a heart attack? call jesus. that’s what a nurse (?) did,while saner ppl called 999
What makes this scary story scary, is that articles like this are not uncommon. Not the religious aspect. The fact that there are so many working here in health care, who are not quite up to the job. There have even been foreign doctors with language problems that have been hired with ‘deadly’ results.
Scary indeed.
Take a look at what her lawyer calls, “A bad day at the office.”
Nurse who threw her hands in the air and begged for Jesus to help as baby suffered heart attack is struck off
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
A nurse who threw her hands into the air and begged for Jesus to help as a baby suffered a heart attack has been thrown out of the profession.
Omolayo Abayomi ‘panicked’ when the child, who suffered from a chronic lung disease, turned blue and stopped breathing in his cot at home.
The 51-year-old called for divine intervention more than 20 times before the vulnerable boy’s mother told her to ‘shut up’.‘The nurse was constantly saying “Jesus help him” and waving her arms around,’ a hearing was told.
The nurse ‘provided wholly inadequate care’ by leaving the frantic mother to resuscitate her lifeless son, while the father dialled 999.
Abayomi was found guilty of a string of charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council at a hearing in central London.
Sydney Topping, for Abayomi, insisted his client’s behaviour had represented no more than a ‘bad day at the office’ and urged the panel to let her off with a caution.
‘Once in a while you have a bad day at the office,’ he said.
‘I would suggest that on April 8 the registrant had a bad day at the office. It was no worse than that. She has bounced back since then.’
Am I the only one who wishes we could go back to the days when foreigners with alphabet soup letters for a name, changed it so the natives could make sense of it? Yeah I know. This one isn’t the worst we’ve seen.
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Permalink • Friday - July 08, 2011
more money for foreign aid while cuts are made in home country
I have come to the conclusion that nobody, absolutely no one, should be allowed to run for high public office, or any public office outside of dogcatcher, unless they have worked at a regular job in the private sector for a min. of 25 years. Period and no exceptions. Today’s crop of pols and I don’t care what party they belong to, are too far out of touch with the real world and with people who actually have to go out and work for a living. Support a family and pay a mortgage etc. And by job I do not mean someone out of law school who is shoehorned into a high end job cos daddy once worked for the firm or is a senator.
There’s a small blurb in the paper that reports a fifth of MPs (members of parliament) are opposed to receipts to back their expenses.
And this is after all the proven documented evidence from a year or so ago with regard to the expense fiddling committed by so many of them.
They lead privileged lives and I don’t begrudge them some perks of office.
It isn’t just the report of receipts that has me bugged. There’s so damn much else that common sense tells us isn’t right or fair. OK, life isn’t fair. Live with it. But not with self serving, egomaniacal pumped up job smiths and something called Quangos that cost the earth. And certainly not the BILLIONS this small island hands out and btw says it’s going to give even more, in foreign aid. And a planned increase to another African country. It’s fine to give money to the really needy but … what about the really needy in your own god damn constituency? What about them?
What about this woman? Look, I accept the fact that the state is not our mommy. And it shouldn’t be. I also think there might be some holes in this story which I read originally a few days ago. By that I mean, it doesn’t tell us if she’s able to pay anything out of existing funds or if she has a pension of some kind. I don’t know.
But what bothers me so damn much is reading about some aid given to Afghanistan, and then it’s found that the aid given by Britain was then sold off by the folks who collected same. AND …. more aid is being earmarked for turd world countries.
How easy it is to play with other people’s money. Fine, you wanna be Mother Teresa? Good on you. Be Mother Teresa at home FIRST!
Callous judges have sentenced Elaine to life without dignity
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHNA stroke victim has been told by the highest court in the land that she has no right to expect the State to provide her with a helper so she can live with dignity in her own home.
Elaine McDonald, a celebrated former ballerina, needs assistance to use the bathroom three times a night. But she lost her appeal against a decision to deny her a night-time carer.
Five Supreme Court judges ruled by 4-1 that there was no legal duty on her local council to supply her with a home help. Only one of the five senior judges dissented.
Miss McDonald, 68, who was once described as Britain’s best classical dancer, said: ‘I have paid my dues since I was 16. I am not a scrounger. But now I need care and that is being denied to me.
‘I have the right to live with dignity. And for me that means being able to go to bed knowing that I have the help I need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night.’
Until recently, Miss McDonald, who is confined to a wheelchair, lives alone and needs round-the-clock care, had a visiting social worker to help her ‘access a commode’.As part of a programme of spending cuts, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea withdrew night-time support to save £22,000 a year. Social services officials told her to use incontinence pads in future, even though she is not incontinent.
Miss McDonald, with the backing of the Equalities Commission, challenged the decision using the Human Rights Act, which is supposed to guarantee everyone dignity and the right to a family life.
The court, however, rejected her appeal, with the honourable exception of Lady Hale. She said: ‘I would have allowed this appeal. We are, I still believe, a civilised society. In the United Kingdom we do not oblige people who can control their bodily functions to behave as if they cannot do so.
‘A person in her situation needs this help during the day as well as during the night. Logically, the decision of the majority in this case would entitle a local authority to withdraw this help even though the client might be left lying in her faeces until the carers came in the morning.’
Lady Hale said that the ruling by her colleagues would also allow councils to withdraw daytime help, too.‘The only constraint would be how frequently - or, rather, how infrequently - it was deemed necessary to change the pads or sheets, consistent with the avoidance of infection and other hazards such as nappy rash. The consequences do not bear thinking about.’
Indeed, they don’t. Over the past five years, Town Halls have been slashing spending on personal care for the disabled and elderly. In the light of this ruling, expect them to cut back still further.
What do councils think they are for, if not to provide help for the most vulnerable and the elderly? Anyone with any experience of the elderly and disabled is aware that the inability to control their basic bodily functions is what causes them the greatest distress.Admittedly, care provision is expensive, but so are grandiose new civic centres; superstar salaries for senior officers; gold-plated pensions; inflated allowances and expenses for ‘Cabinet’ members; daft diversity departments, global warming directorates; propaganda sheets masquerading as newspapers; ‘walking bus’ co-ordinators, equality enforcers, gay rights advocates; anti-nuclear programmes, and all the other wasteful and unnecessary initiatives on which councils all over Britain choose to fritter away taxpayers’ money.
The £22,000 it would cost to provide Miss McDonald with a carer would barely pay for half a dozen hideous traffic humps.It is monstrous that a Conservative council - as Neil Kinnock might say: a Con-serv-ative council - would condemn a woman who has paid taxes all her life to rot in her own waste.
The legal costs of this case alone must run into seven figures. Why not give the money to a low-paid carer instead of a rich barrister?This case demonstrates - as if any further evidence was required - just how remote the State has become from those it is paid to serve.
Judges, in particular, seem to delight in perverse rulings in favour of the undeserving and undesirable. The same section of the yuman rites act, under which Miss McDonald brought her claim, is regularly used to allow foreign terrorists, drug dealers, rapists and murderers to stay in Britain and live on benefits.
Only this week, as I mentioned here, an unemployed single woman has been given the ‘right’ to IVF treatment on the NHS so she can have a bay-bee. She will be free to bring up the child at taxpayers’ expense and will cost us far more than the £22,000 denied to Miss McDonald.
While the politicians grandstand and pick the fluff from their own navels, and the judges congratulate themselves on their wisdom, it is left to a few charities and this newspaper to speak for the elderly and their right to basic dignity.
Meanwhile, a once beautiful and gifted ballerina is condemned callously to a nightmare existence festering in her own filth.
Heaven knows I’m no socialist. Never have been. But having lived through what my wife put up with re. her mom for three or more years, and understanding something about bed and nappy changes etc., I can not help but feel sorry for the lady this article is about. The mil had a daughter. Apparently, this woman has nobody. I don’t know what might be missing from her story, if anything at all. But I damn well believe that there IS the money to help folks like this, provided the govt. use cuts in foreign aid instead of cuts at home where it’s needed.
But the folks who make these decisions are remote from the real world. They generally do not even have to drive their own cars. Someone does it for em.
They don’t wait in long lines at the grocer or the barber and their needs are seen to immediately. Nuts! Politicians and committees and “consultations.”
All just a bunch of crap.
I’m outta here. Back tomoro. Stay tuned.
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Permalink • Monday - July 04, 2011
milking the system and screwing taxpayers. open borders and national health
When this country first introduced national health care, and looking at their past I suppose they thought it a great idea at the time, not one of them could have seen what it would become today. Or perhaps someone did and was simply ignored. I wouldn’t know. But what I do know, and it surely is not rocket science or any great depth of understanding on my part, is that these folks are allowing themselves to be royally screwed by forces outside their country as well as in.
Not being diplomatically minded in any way, in my own bumbling way I just do not understand why authorities here who do acknowledge that things are wrong, can’t simply say FUCK YOU to the outsiders who are telling them what and how to think.
I don’t understand why when things come to this pass, those in power won’t simply refuse to accommodate the cheaters or the people who insist they have a ‘human right’ to the money earned by others.
Two stories covered both sides of the middle spread in one morning paper.
It just is not possible to read this crap and not see that old RCOB. It’s the lunacy that is accepted and that will bankrupt the system totally one day. And it’s in enough trouble already.
True enough that in the USA there are serious problems in health care that need to be addressed, and not next month or next year or as a talking point only at elections.
But heaven forbid anything like this should ever take hold in America. And we know in some respects there might be some similarities.
In one case there’s a woman whose bio-clock is ticking. She desperately wants a baby. At your expense. Cos she says, she has the human right to a baby, even if someone else is called upon to pay for it.
So then, the white trash sponger pictured here, decided that she would have IVF to achieve the wanted baby. She’s single, no job and wants to be a mother. So, she threatened a law suit in the European court, the system caved in to her and bingo.
Out pops taxpayer sponsored baby.
Link above has both stories.
The other case involves a Nigerian, Mrs Ayelabola. This darkie knew what she was about, came to England and gave birth to 5 niglets and now says she intends to stay.
She has no job and no right to stay here BUT … the fugitive from a mud hut in some jungle does have …. Lawyers! They do know the system, and they do plan ahead.
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It’s not rocket surgery
The primary reason that the cost of healthcare is going through the roof is because the paradigm of insurance itself has been completely corrupted and bastardized. This corruption and abuse of the concept of insurance, which is nothing more than risk management and risk pooling, is itself what is artificially inflating healthcare costs.
A secondary cause of health care price inflation that bears a quick mention is indeed the out-of-control malpractice litigation culture, personified by that walking human compost heap, John Edwards. The solution there is simple. Cap malpractice awards and implement a “loser pays” rule to disincentivize frivilous litigation. It’s not rocket surgery.
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Health insurance is meant to be a protection against catastrophic costs and expenses. The operative term here, people, is “catastrophic”.
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The reason that the system of health insurance in the U.S. is broken today is because the concept of insurance itself has been bastardized and corrupted such that the expectation of coverage is no longer merely to protect against catastrophic expenses, but to cover absolutely everything: simple office visits, sore throat, chest cold, minor cuts requiring stitches, heck even setting a broken bone or arthroscopically working on a torn ligament in a knee.
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You are not entitled to an insurance policy which covers every little thing. In fact, if it is mandated that insurance cover every little thing, including preventative care, then the entire concept of risk pooling collapses in flames. The more the insurance company has to cover, the higher the odds that any given individual is going to have a claim. This would be like demanding auto insurance coverage that would pay out for a car wash if an insect hit your windshield – and not just a $7.00 car wash at the gas station, but a $300 full detail job. If that were the case, the cost of car insurance would become prohibitively expensive. But guys, my example of auto insurance paying out for a $300 detail job after having an insect hit your windshield is not an unreasonable analogue to today’s health insurance market. We have health insurance today that covers acupuncture and cosmetic surgery. If you force insurance to cover PREVENTATIVE care and purely cosmetic or non-medical procedures, then what you are doing is GUARANTEEING that every single participant in the risk pool can potentially have a claim. If every person in the pool is guaranteed or even mandated to have a claim, then it is no longer a risk pool. My God, how can it be that no one understands this?
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... a zero competition, zero deductible system, which is the goal of ObamaCare. If you think that is going to reduce costs, then apparently Barack Obama isn’t the only person currently smoking crack in this country.
This is a MUST READ article, but for those of you who have to multitask, there are also videos. So it can be a MUST LISTEN post if necessary. Go, and partake.
What a wild idea - medical insurance to cover catastrophic or significant accident or illness.
Nearly as wild would be health insurance possibly extended to cover (partially?) minor accidents or illnesses if they cost you more than X% of your annual income. Say you make $30,000 a year, and you policy comes in after 5%. That’s $1500 worth of doctor visits, medicines, eye exams, etc. In the past 10 years I’ve been to the doctor about once or twice a year. So for me, even if I only made $3,000 a year, I’d barely make that 5% line.
And let’s knock off the BS of calling health insurance “health care”. It isn’t.
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No kidding
Thirty percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering health benefits to their employees once the main provisions of President Obama’s federal health care law go into effect in 2014, a new survey finds.
The research published in the McKinsey Quarterly found that the number rises to 50 percent among employers who are highly aware of the health care law.
This is not news. This is what the VRWC said when this garbage first was put forward. We actually read the bill. Or at least the important parts. And Republicans understand how business works. It is cheaper for any mid-sized or larger company to pony up the $2000 fine and let the government be the health insurance provider.
Hey, in 3 years, will it be news when the insurance companies start going out of business? Because that will be Round 3. Face the truth: without the policy income generated by those millions of corporate policies, the health insurance companies are going to shrivel up and die.
And then Big Brother will control, co-opt, and commandeer the entire insurance industry. And guess what will follow? Who wants to be the first to say the “DP” word? And guess which party will immediately try to cut costs by using the “die quickly” ploy?
Idiots. My country is run by deceitful morons. The Communists have taken over. Can we start the revolution YET???
“And in just 5 days we begin the fundamental transformation of America” ... into a gulag police state.
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