Britain’s National Health Service is killing me softly with a syringe
by Niall McCrea, Rebel Priest blog:
According to a Times investigation, euthanasia was rife at Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Hundreds of patients, many admitted for a period of respite or rehabilitation, were given potent doses of opioid drugs normally reserved for patients in terminal care.
I know this treatment from my past hospital experience: it toes a delicate line between caring and killing, but is ethically justifiable. Most relatives want their loved one to be relieved of an unnecessarily distressing death as they succumb to cancer or other fatal disease.
At Gosport, consultant physician Jane Barton allegedly ran an industrial-scale killing machine. The police had failed to take whistleblowers seriously. Barton vehemently denies any wrongdoing, but perhaps the practice was so normalised that it no longer seemed ethically dubious.
Professor Brian Jarman, respected health service expert, suggested that this is likely to be happening in many other hospitals, but is not challenged due to fear of speaking out. Is Gosport merely the tip of an iceberg? I have some troubling observations that would support Jarman’s view.
Read also: “If a nurse didn’t like you, you were a goner.” The “difficult” patients killed at Gosport from SPUC
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