Tag Archives: hospitals
Lockdown ‘could kill 75,000 over five years’ – that’s the OFFICIAL projection of non-COVID deaths caused by missed cancer diagnoses, cancelled operations and health impacts of a recession. The virus death toll? 42,000
Ben Spencer and Simon Walters | dailymail.co.uk Nearly 75,000 people could die from non-Covid causes as a result of lockdown, according to devastating official figures buried in a 188-page document. The startling research, presented to the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for … Continue reading →
Posted in Cancer, Headlines, Health Related, Politics, Ponerology, Society
|
Tagged covid, hospitals, lockdown, non-covid, restrictions
|
Comments Off on Lockdown ‘could kill 75,000 over five years’ – that’s the OFFICIAL projection of non-COVID deaths caused by missed cancer diagnoses, cancelled operations and health impacts of a recession. The virus death toll? 42,000
Elderly patients are being ‘deprived of food and drink so they die quicker and free up bed space’, claim doctors
Emily Allen Daily Mail Hospitals may be withholding food and drink from elderly patients so they die quicker to cut costs and save on bad spaces, leading doctors have warned. Thousands of terminally ill people are placed on a ‘care … Continue reading →
Posted in Headlines, Health Related
|
Tagged bed, bed space, care, care pathway, Claim, controversial practice, daily mail, daily telegraph, doctors, drink, elderly care, elderly patients, food, food and drink, hospitals, letter, Mail, pathway, practice, pressure, space, specialise, Telegraph, withholding food, year
|
Comments Off on Elderly patients are being ‘deprived of food and drink so they die quicker and free up bed space’, claim doctors
Arguing Atheism – A Conversation with Dr Peter Boghossian
Stefan Molyneux Freedomain Radio Dr. Peter Boghossian’s main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 20 years and 30 thousand students–in prisons, hospitals, … Continue reading →
Posted in Philosophy, Videos
|
Tagged Atheism, boghossian, colleges and universities, contexts, conversation, dr peter, Focus, fortune, fortune 100 companies, Freedomain, freedomain radio, fundamental objective, hospitals, intractable problems, molyneux, objective, pedigree, prisons, private schools, professional philosophers, Public, radio, radio dr, small businesses, Stefan, teaching, variety
|
Comments Off on Arguing Atheism – A Conversation with Dr Peter Boghossian
Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
Steve Doughty Daily Mail NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday. Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned … Continue reading →
Posted in Bioethics, Headlines, Health Related
|
Tagged beds, care pathway, clear evidence, daily mail, doctors, elderly hospital, elderly patients, euthanasia, hospital patients, hospitals, Liverpool, NHS, professor patrick, senior consultant, terminally ill patients
|
Comments Off on Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
Swiss canton to vote on assisted suicide on June 17
Michael Cook BioEdge The Swiss canton of Vaud will hold a referendum on June 17 to decide whether nursing homes and hospitals must accept assisted suicide on their premises. (Vaud is a French-speaking canton in the east, whose capital is … Continue reading →
Posted in Bioethics, Headlines, Health Related
|
Tagged assistance, assisted suicide, BioEdge, canton, capital, euthanasia, Exit, favour, french speaking, group, hospitals, June, Lausanne, LAW, michael cook, nursing, nursing homes, premises, referendum, selfish ends, Suicide, swiss canton, swiss citizens, swiss law, vaud
|
Comments Off on Swiss canton to vote on assisted suicide on June 17
15-year-old schoolgirl died after ‘doctor mistook tuberculosis for lovesickness’
Telegraph Alina Sarag was seen by more than five doctors at four different hospitals but medics failed to detect the curable disease. Her distraught parents even called her GP more than 50 times about their daughter’s ailing condition over a … Continue reading →
Posted in Headlines, Health Related, Society
|
Tagged alina, condition, curable disease, daughter, Death, disease, distraught, distraught parents, doctor, doctors, GP, hospitals, inquest, January, january 6, lovesick, lovesickness, medics, mistook, mollycoddling, month, Pandit, period, schoolgirl, Sharad, Shockingly, Shripadrao, Telegraph, tuberculosis, year
|
Comments Off on 15-year-old schoolgirl died after ‘doctor mistook tuberculosis for lovesickness’
How to Overcome the Egocentric Bias
PsyBlog Most people are pretty bad at taking advice from others. People don’t mind hearing the advice, they just hate to take it. This is one facet of what psychologists call the ‘egocentric bias’: the general rule that we think … Continue reading →
Posted in Headlines, Health Related, Psychology
|
Tagged advice, bias, boardroom, Egocentric, everything, experience, facet, generation, hospitals, impressive power, insights, lot, Overcome, person, Power, PsyBlog, psychologists, reason, rule, shame, stranger, strikes, tendency, THE, time
|
Comments Off on How to Overcome the Egocentric Bias
Fast Food America: Hospitals Serving Up McDonald’s to Patients
Mike Barrett Natural society It is no surprise that fast food is extremely unhealthy. On one level, the processed junk food lacks essential vitamins and nutrients, while they are also concocted with numerous health-hazardous substances and chemicals which should not … Continue reading →
Posted in Headlines, Health Related, Nutrition
|
Tagged Change, chemicals, consuming, Des Moines, Fact, Fast, fast food america, fast food chains, fast food restaurant, food, hazardous substances, health, health institutions, hospital cafeterias, hospitals, information, junk, junk food, level, McDonald, mike barrett, Natural, nutrients, placement, pun, realfood, restaurant, result, Serving, sick individuals, society, statement, Surprise, Truth, vitamins
|
Comments Off on Fast Food America: Hospitals Serving Up McDonald’s to Patients
Discovery offers insight into treating viral stomach flu
Melanie Bernds EurekAlert ST. LOUIS, MO, March 21, 2012—Twenty million Americans get sick from norovirus each year according to data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Often called vomiting illness, it can spread rapidly on cruise … Continue reading →
Posted in Headlines, Health Related, Science, Vaccinations
|
Tagged CDC, centers for disease control, centers for disease control cdc, Control, cruise, cruise ships, deaths, discovery, disease, dormitories, EurekAlert, flu, gastrointestinal, gastrointestinal infections, hand, hospitals, Illness, incubation, incubation period, individual, infected individual, insight, MARCH, march 21, Melanie, period, proper hand washing, st louis mo, stomach flu, stool, threat, virus, vomiting, Washing, year
|
Comments Off on Discovery offers insight into treating viral stomach flu
Elderly ‘ignored’ in UK care system
Press TV Campaigners have urged NHS practitioners to treat elderly patients with respect as it was revealed that they are treated like ‘objects’ in the current British healthcare system. In a letter published in the Daily Telegraph, a group of … Continue reading →
Posted in Headlines, Health Related, Ponerology, Society
|
Tagged abuse, british pensioners, campaigners, care, charities, code, CONVENTION, Daily, daily telegraph, decisions, dignity, elderly patients, group, healthcare system, hospitals, letter, medical treatment, NATIONAL, national pensioners convention, neglect, NHS, nhs nurses, Pensioners, politicians, Press, privacy, regulators, set, System, Telegraph, Treatment, Urging
|
Comments Off on Elderly ‘ignored’ in UK care system
