{"id":6409,"date":"2009-04-21T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2009-04-21T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T04:59:00","slug":"coming-to-hospital-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/coming-to-hospital-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to a hospital near you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Families described some neglected patients at the hospital drinking water from flower vases because they were so thirsty &#8212; it was apparently beyond the interest or the competence of the nursing staff or any supervisors to get them a glass of water &#8212; and others screaming in pain. Patients described one ward as a &#8220;war zone&#8221; and said people were often left waiting in Accident and Emergency for hours covered in their own blood and without pain relief even with serious injuries. Others were left without food or drink, some received the wrong medication, or none at all, and blood and feces were left on lavatories and on floors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Haiti? Zimbabwe? <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2009\/04\/20\/socialized-medicine-on-modern\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families described some neglected patients at the hospital drinking water from flower vases because they were so thirsty &#8212; it was apparently beyond the interest or the competence of the nursing staff or any supervisors to get them a glass <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/coming-to-hospital-near-you\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[666,1057],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-britain","category-socialized-medicine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coming to a hospital near you? - The Gormogons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/coming-to-hospital-near-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coming to a hospital near you? - The Gormogons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Families described some neglected patients at the hospital drinking water from flower vases because they were so thirsty &#8212; it was apparently beyond the interest or the competence of the nursing staff or any supervisors to get them a glass &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/coming-to-hospital-near-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Gormogons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-04-21T04:59:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Confucius, \u0152c. 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