I Hate How Some Doctors Treat Patients
In This Case That’s a Gross Understatement
Spine-chilling news out of the U.K.
An Oxford-educated British GP Dr. Jane Barton is held responsible for 656 deaths. It appears that this doctor and the staff she worked with considered a patient being troublesome and care-intensive legitimate grounds for prescribing high dosages of painkillers which sometimes resulted in death in days.
This is by no means a British problem. Over the years, more doctors and nurses than seems credible have been charged with the murders of patients.
Even more incredible is the fact she was allowed to continue practicing after the situation was fairly well identified. The committee responsible for that decision included Dr, Barton’s brother.
It has become apparent this practice of hastening patients’ deaths by the use of medical morphine was an institutional practice meaning other doctors, consultants and hospital staff knew it was going on and remained silent.
At least some of the murdered patients were not in the hospital for life-threatening illnesses, but for rehabilitation.
When my husband was ill for fourteen months I realized that if for whatever reasons a patient cannot protect themselves, it is vital that a loved one be vigilant on their behalf.
This case reads like a Michael Crichton novel.
Dr. Barton retired in 2007, a year after the committee’s report was released, but eleven years later no criminal charges have been brought.
