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How we treat the sick : neglect and abuse in our health services
- Title
- How we treat the sick : neglect and abuse in our health services / Michael Mandelstam ; foreword by Lord Justice Munby.
- Author
- Mandelstam, Michael, 1956-
- Publication
- London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RA485 .M36 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 382 pages
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Great Britain National Health Service
- Public health > Great Britain
- Patients > Abuse of > Great Britain
- State Medicine > organization & administration
- Patient Care > methods
- Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration
- Elder Abuse > prevention & control
- Vulnerable Populations
- Health and Fitness
- Patients > Abuse of
- Public health
- Hälso- och sjukvård
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN
- 9781849051606
- 1849051607
- 9781843104827
- 1843104822
- OCLC
- ocn694393781
- 694393781
- SCSB-14659170
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library