Thursday, October 26, 2006
You think the UK Health Service is bad, here is what happens in L.A.
L.A. hospitals dump patients on Skid Row
Los Angeles residents concerned about the sprawling human dumping ground that is Skid Row ("the Nickel" on Fifth Street) have (apparently) found that some hospitals routinely drop off patients there -- eject them from a van, dazed or drugged and sometimes still wearing hospital gowns, left to wander the streets and fend for themselves. Some do not even know they are discharged, etc.
It seems Skid Row staph, or, more technically, a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that is sickening dozens of police officers, firefighters, health-care workers and homeless people
IMO:It took an old friend of mine, not a doctor, to stop unintentional suicides at one major London hospital. Some tales I have heard about London hospitals could make your hair stand on end. Usually individuals are watching their own interests and 'don't want to know' about such things in UK unless there is money in it. What a vile, selfish society.
Los Angeles residents concerned about the sprawling human dumping ground that is Skid Row ("the Nickel" on Fifth Street) have (apparently) found that some hospitals routinely drop off patients there -- eject them from a van, dazed or drugged and sometimes still wearing hospital gowns, left to wander the streets and fend for themselves. Some do not even know they are discharged, etc.
It seems Skid Row staph, or, more technically, a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that is sickening dozens of police officers, firefighters, health-care workers and homeless people
IMO:It took an old friend of mine, not a doctor, to stop unintentional suicides at one major London hospital. Some tales I have heard about London hospitals could make your hair stand on end. Usually individuals are watching their own interests and 'don't want to know' about such things in UK unless there is money in it. What a vile, selfish society.
# posted by uv : 5:01 AM
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