Some things really get to me, in particular hospital surgeons and consultants. Nobody would deny they do a good job in a vast majority of cases, but there are a few instances where they show the cold callousness of a pyschopath. For instance, did you know that, in an emergency when you are unconscious they can do what they damn well like, even without consent? In fact they ASSUME consent, which shows the monumental arrogance that pervades the system. Of course most patients are grateful or at least accepting of sny procedures performed on them, but doctors are playing a percentage game - a small amount of people are going to be deeply unhappy and unable to live with what has been done to them (more of this in the next blog). these people should have powerful redress, for nobody has the power over anyone else to inflict some ghastly half-life (if that) and hope to get away with it. There needs to be a change in the law, particularly when it comes to conditions such as meningococcal septicaemia and necrotising fasciitis, where it is possible to wake up with no limbs at all. I would propose that removal of all limbs be made illegal whether or not the patient lives, and that any patient unable to cope with their new state be allowed to sue for damages and for criminal proceedings against named individual medical staff on a level playing field - no more should doctors be able to hide their formerly Teflon-coated backsides behind their hospital or Trust. It slso goes without saying that any approving or consenting next of kin suffer the same fate. And there is another thing: children, once adult, should be able to sue hospitals and parents for gruelling and barbaric treatments that were forced upon them when they had no choice in the matter - if they have been left disabled, with a damaged immune system, and/or sterile by virtue of cancer treatment, for instance (more of that another time, too).
Jack Orchison, November 26, 2013
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