1/7/13

Beware: Socialist medicine in action

Betty Marshall, 85, died of sepsis after her hip  replacement wound dressing was  left unchanged for two weeks while she was recovering from hip replacement surgery. She was being 'cared for' at an understaffed 24-bed intermediate care facility run by Britain's National Health Service, where nurses struggled to cope and did not have time to properly complete patient records due to an outbreak of Norovirus. One nurse, who was in tears during the outbreak described the situation on the ward as an "absolute nightmare". Read more.