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A renowned Cardiologist speaks out

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5 years ago•6 Replies

Please read:-

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Murphysmum5 years ago

Here here.

A sad state of affairs as most of us know all too well.

I’m not sure any one party can/will fix it 😠

Cooper275 years ago

I knew I recognised the photo:

inews.co.uk/opinion/comment...

He has written about his mum's death before. It's tragic.

I'm not sure what the answer is here: part of it is that people overuse the NHS, part is under-funding, part is the poor working conditions leading to staffing issues, and part is just red tape. How we fix that, I just don't know.

Angel_of_the_North5 years ago

It's hard to say, but it think a lot of it is red tape and unnecessary levels of hierarchy that add nothing to patient care. It's pointless throwing good money after bad when it'll just get used up by managers on 6 figure salaries and patient un-friendly guidelines. Why do nurses get pushed into doing degree courses they don't want? Why are there huge TV screens every 10 yards in hospitals and surgeries? Why can't you book an appointment a couple of weeks in advance. Too much back-covering and not enough medical discretion. The whole system needs to be blitzed and redone- but how? If anything, things have got worse since doctors had a huge salary increase.

Rapunzel5 years ago

Malcolm Kenrick suggested a connection between the rise in the production of armaments and the primacy of the pharmaceutical industry on the back of Dwight Eisenhower's final address

drmalcolmkendrick.org/2018/...

Peter Gøtzsche has been castigated and shunned for holding contrarian views. My contrarian views, much garnered from TUK have kept me functioning and I truly believe contributed to my remaining alive and not completely immobile.

So long as money is being made, with some pharma companies having more monetary influence than countries, we can expect more of them same. 😡

Clarrisa5 years ago

My mother had told me this (I don’t know how true it is): That after WWI England had so many widows that they set up a system of nurses to care for them (District Nurses?). Anyway my mother in the states always spoke very highly of this system.

If hospitals seem hopeless & in need of a overhaul maybe improving this older system might help keep patients like this doctor’s mother healthier outside of a hospital longer. This could be done with community based “Advanced Practice Nurses.”

If you think Nurses are incapable of doing this consider this: I learned years ago at a international Nurse conference that in some countries (parts of Africa) that were heavily loosing their doctors to affluent countries, nurses were actually the ones left running their hospitals (i.e. holding the bag).