No disciplinary action was taken. They don't say that your consultant may appear for just five minutes, then disappear. For the other 23-plus hours, you're in the hands of a resident medical officer, who can be an inexperienced doctor having to cover every patient. Nurses, too, tend to be generalists. It is a serious deficiency.
Patients also cite failures in hospital procedures.
For the surgery, his legs were raised and held by stirrups in the lithotomy position. After the anaesthetic wore off, John was seized by agonizing pain. His right hip replacement had been shattered. One year and a second hip replacement later, John still suffers pain and has had to use a stick to get around. The Liberal Democrat peer and MEP Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne has been fighting for better laws to protect private patients since the death of her husband Sir Michael Caine.