Over in UK, a registered nurse with the National Health Service turned off the life support machine of a quadriplegic, leaving him without oxygen for 21 minutes, which resulted in brain damage that rendered him an idiot.
The worst part about this is that the man, Jamie Merrett, apparently had so little confidence in the NHS staff to do its job properly that he had a closed-circuit camera installed in his room that filmed the disaster. His fear turned out to be well-founded.
The paragraph in the story that outrages me the most, however, is this one:
NHS Wiltshire declined to answer questions but said in a statement: “We have apologised to the patient and his family for this, and have put in place a series of actions to ensure that such an event will not occur again either for this patient or others.” (bolding mine).
Sorry about that, m'lad. These things happen, you know.
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I vote for cutting the oxygen off to the NHS permenantly!
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