How We Treat The Sick Neglect And Abuse In Our Health Services
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2011
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781849051606
Description: "No official statistics are kept for the number of hospital patients, in particular older people, who are subjected to neglect and abuse. That is, left malnourished and dehydrated, in pain, allowed to develop agonising and fatal pressure sores, not taken to the toilet, left to lie in their own bodily waste, cared for in a filthy environment and at risk of infection, ignored, allowed to fall over repeatedly, not spoken to, left naked or dressed in other patients' clothes - and discharged from hospital prematurely. This book bears witness to all these practices and more." -- P. 4 of cover.