Clear and Present Danger of being a Geriatric Patient. Nov 6. 2012 | Comments (0)
On the 8th Feb. 2010, I was admitted to a Northern Hospital suffering from an acute attack of angeo-edema, which had been caused by a conflict of prescription drugs. I reached the hospital just in time for I was only minutes away from death by axphyation. The emergency people were wonderful, they saved my life. However, and this is a big HOWEVER, I was then transferred to a geriatric ward for further treatment and observations. I received neither other than a drip feed with a huge bubble of air in the pipe. The staff refused to deal with this and I was forced to remove the device from my veins before dying horribly of an air embolism. I needed to use the toilet, and found the corpse of an elderly lady slumped over the toilet, and being in urgent need of one I could use, I went into the next one. What I found in there made me instantly vomit. Human excretia, some old and hardened, some...