Send Michael Moore to this hospital
as a patient.
On Wednesday, the report from the Healthcare Commission into the C.diff outbreak in Kent found a catalogue of failings. The hospitals had filthy wards and vulnerable elderly patients were told to soil their beds because nurses were too busy to help them.
Targets and financial problems within the health service led to staff shortages and overcrowded wards which contributed to the spread of the infection, the report found.
Between April 2004 and September 2006, 1,176 patients contracted C.diff at the three hospitals and 345 died. Some patients with curable conditions died after contracting the bug.
The commission found the bug definitely or probably caused the deaths of 90 of them and was likely to have contribu ted to the deaths of another 255. In only 14 cases was it felt the bug had not been a factor in the death.
If he survives, he may change his mind about socialized medicine.
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No way! Do you want him to eat the patients? They do not provide Krispy Kreams there...
I wonder if they have the earth-moving equipment in the UK that we now have in the US for patients who are the size of Planet Mercury? If not, they couldn't get him onto a gurney in the first place, never mind into a room.
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