A young patient who died of dehydration at a leading teaching hospital phoned police from his bed because he was so thirsty, an inquest heard yesterday.
Officers arrived at Kane Gorny’s bedside, but were told by nurses that he was in a confused state and were sent away.
The keen footballer and runner, 22, died of dehydration a few hours later.
A coroner had such grave concerns about the case that she referred it to police.
Yesterday an inquest was told how Mr Gorny died after blunders and neglect by ‘lazy and careless’ medical staff at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London.
His mother Rita Cronin, a civil servant told Westminster Coroner’s Court that staff tutted at her and repeatedly refused to listen to her concerns that her son hadn’t been given vital medication.
At one point he became so desperate and upset that staff sedated and restrained him – and on the night before his death, his mother said, he was not checked on by medical staff, despite being in a room on his own.
Following his death, a nurse allegedly inquired whether the family, from Balham, South-West London, was ‘finished’ and asked a matron in front of them whether she could ‘bag him up’.
Mr Gorny, who worked in Waitrose and was training to be a locksmith and shoe repairer, had survived a malignant brain tumour in 2008.
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WHAT A BLOODY DISGRACE , JAIL,SACK ,PUBLIC DISGRACE
This is absolutley shocking. I dont know why the police took the nurses word he was ok. I thought the police had a duty of care policy.
Remember my ‘blacklist’?. Police, The PCT, etc will take the word of a Dr and Nurse over any patient.
People, despite these disturbingly given news reports still refuse to grasp that any Dr/Nurse can lie, be cruel etc….. Its like the human race has been programmed to not believe our own selves when fighting the medical profession.
Its why ATOS are continuously getting away with the bullshit, why would the public believe us against those calling themselves disability analysts?
Can you not yet see what i tell you concerning the medical profession?
I know i rant and rave alot on the subject, yet all still turn round and say “but they are good guys” or they invented advanced meds”….. No they invent toxic drugs that we become addicted to and rely on. They create the disease, keep us ill, and treat us like shit, neglect us, deliberate a solidarital anti patient agenda and leave you to die.
I know i still wont get through to you all, i know you all think im crazy, in retrospect i kinda am, brain drugs do that to you lol.
But, do you think these staff here will be honest in any court? They will get together conduct a defence….. He ‘was’ on our list but we were so busy, the police came and we panicked, tried to see he was seen too but we were sadly too late, had he have been tended to, another patient would have suffered, we are under staffed etc etc……… Come on guys, its blatant they’l weedle out of it and the coroner, who was very good to have come forward, will be bullied or treated as scum within the profession, whistle blowers andf grasses are the enemy.
This is surely manslaughter. Will probably get away with neglect at most.
Disgusting
The family must be completely beside themselves- this is utterly unbearable and horrific. It’s well known that vulnerable patients get neglected/abused yet nothing robust in the way of policy has happened to prevent it and punish the perpetrators in a way that fits the crime. I know from first hand experience how variable the quality of doctoring and nursing care is and it is a very frightening thing to be at the mercy of the ones who treat you with contempt or simply don’t care and just want to have a laugh together at the desk.
The NHS needs more funding for rigorous training and supervision of it’s staff and staffing levels need to increase of course. In Cardiff they are rolling out an excellent patient care training/monitoring programme which includes all who have contact with patients including the staff who bring around the meals and drinks, and cleaning staff too. A friend whose son had been in hospital in England and then in Cardiff could hardly believe the difference in care- from the surgeons to the tea ladies. She said she could actually go home and sleep without worrying when he was in the Cardiff hospital. Why can’t this be a nationwide initiative?
If I was the poor mother of that poor boy I would want to strangle those appalling specimens of staff and to hell with the consequences.
Sickening and none to rare behaviour which as you say paul, is frightening.
Only a few weeks ago admin posted an artical of a blind woman being burned by the nurse staff feeding her, a patient denied life threatening treatment and of another being burned to death in her bed.
Theres no doubt this guy was in desperate circumstances and he did the thing i joked about a little while ago,.
I said “next we’ll be calling 999 while in hospital just to get traetment” and look, he actually did.
The police were sent away, therefore these staff, deliberated no help after that, said he was delirious, i mean come on, thats just evil.
They should be banged up for causing a man to suffer and die, thats neither manslaughter nor murder its callous deliberation to deny appropriate treatment resulting in death, they should be named, shamed and struck off, punished like any sadistic person should be, not ever be given leniancy, it deters any such situation from happening as does over and over again.
Hear hear Ann.
Disgusting.
Picked this post up on another blog!.
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“Here we go? Roll up! Roll up and step on to the NHS Privatisation Roundabout everybody! And remember to get your health insurance.
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NHS charging and rationing ‘may be needed’
By Nick Triggle
Health correspondent, BBC News
The NHS is getting small increases in funding until 2015 .
NHS faces ‘a decade of savings’
NHS workforce hits 1.4 million
‘More than 50,000′ NHS jobs to go
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More rationing of care and charging for services in the NHS need to be considered as it faces at least a decade of austerity, experts say.
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the coming years will be the toughest since the early 1950s when dental and prescription fees were introduced.
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Other measures, including tax rises, could also form part of the solution.
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And the review says decisions on the NHS – and social care – will have an impact on other public services too.
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This is because of the huge amount of the public purse they consume.
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The NHS alone accounts for nearly a quarter of public spending.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18694119
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As I write there is an ad running on Sky News for Health Online.com
!From as little as 70p a day you are assured…….’ I work that out to be £255 pa and that would be for very basic cover.”
I know il differ from the most of you here, but, due to my blacklist anyway and my own now despising of the medical profession, i have firmly decided to never opt for any treatment ever again.
Im deadly serious and i will die in my own surroundings.
If you knew me personally youd know i mean it.
Unless im run over or fall off a cliff? I will avoid the medical profession like the plague i believe them to actually be.
Im off meds now, im being forced to sign on, im not in full recovery yet, but, theyve said see you later, no after care for me but im actually glad to see the back of them, still awaiting Ombudsman response and will never quit fighting. Its truly not an option for me to return.
I know you guys rely heavily on the nhs, had things been different for me in the treatment i indeed sufferred? So would i be.