Sure to Be Omitted from Our Media: U.K. Hospital Horror Story of Dragging a Dead Guy Like an Animal
The next time someone in the media wants to blame budget cutters for premature deaths , remember James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal, who unveiled another story filed under “Great Moments in Socialized Medicine,” once again from jolly old England and the London Daily Mail : Peter Thompson, 41, was left in a corridor for ten hours before someone noticed he had passed away. In a final act of indignity, hospital auxiliaries pulled his lifeless body across the floor in a manner his family described as like “dragging a dead animal.” The scenes which shame the NHS [National Health Service] were all captured on CCTV. Staff thought Mr. Thompson was merely drunk and left him to “sleep it off.” Yesterday a coroner condemned the death as “wholly preventable.” An inquest heard that the father-of-one, who had consumed a cocktail of drink and drugs, could have been saved had he received emergency treatment. The hospital’s accident and emergency department was just 200 yards away. Taranto couldn’t help himself: Would someone please ask former Enron adviser Paul Krugman to call the Thompson family and relieve their suffering by letting them know “these stories are false”?
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Sure to Be Omitted from Our Media: U.K. Hospital Horror Story of Dragging a Dead Guy Like an Animal
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on June 10, 2011. Filed under