Neglect and Abuse in Our Health Services
by
Michael Mandelstam
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
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...