National Health Disgrace Service Strikes Again
From 27 May, 1940 until 4 June, 1940 British and French troops were evacuated from the Dunkirk (Dunkerque) pocket by Operation Dynamo. Called by Winston Churchill the "Miracle at Dunkirk" the operation saved some 338,000 troops from capture by the German Army. One of the men who was evacuated was Joseph Nixon, a member of the Coldstream Guards. After the war, Mr. Nixon continued to serve his country as a police officer. While working for the police, he campaigned for alcoholic support groups for prisoners. And honorable man with a career of distinction.
Unfortunately, the British National Health Service did not treat him that way.
A Second World War veteran who survived the Dunkirk evacuation died after contracting a superbug at a NHS hospital following a routine operation.
His daughter says he was dismayed by the dirty conditions he faced at the hospital in the weeks leading to his death.
Former Coldstream Guard Joseph Nixon, 87, survived the battlefields of France and Belgium.
But after a bowel operation he caught pneumonia and superbug clostridium difficile at Maidstone Hospital in Kent at the end of last month.
Mr Nixon, who was also a Met Police officer after the war and a "tireless" campaigner for alcoholic support groups for prisoners, was appalled at how overworked nurses were and the dirty conditions at the hospital.
After spending three weeks in the hospital daughter Jackie Dixon said "hour by hour his soul was being stripped".
She took the war veteran to their home in Maidstone to live his last days in comfort. He died last Friday.
Jackie said: "Joseph was just so miserable.
"One time he was really sad and said 'What did I do that was so evil that I'm trapped in this awful place'.
"I said to him, 'I want to stop this, I want to stop this happening to other people'.
"It was one of the only times he smiled."
His daughter was reduced to changing the bedding at the hospital because the staff never got around to it. This is the socialized medical system that is touted by Michael Moore and so many others on the left as a model.
Still think socialized medicine is a good idea?
Medicine, World news | Gaius Saturday, 25 August , 2007
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By terrence, Saturday, 25 August , 2007 @ 4:53 pm
OH yeah! At least it is not EEEVIIILL American style health care. So, it MUST be all right, and morally pure, and something the rest of the world can look up to, and Michael Moore can idealize and use to criticize EEEVIIILL American style health care.
By terrence, Saturday, 25 August , 2007 @ 4:57 pm
Should I have turned off the sarcasm switch? I hope it was obvious…
By Gaius, Saturday, 25 August , 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Nah, you’re fine.