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Malpractice, Negligence, Incompetence ...
or could it be another Medical Murder?

November 2005

Recently a close friend told me a story of medical misconduct, amounting to an actual murder, that I would have found unbelievable had I not personally lost somebody very dear to me in a sickeningly similar manner just a year or so before.

Prior to this incident I'd always been inclined to think of doctors and nurses as life savers, people we turn to when we're sick, caring individuals whose job it is to make us well, not to kill us. The likes of Harold Shipman, fortunately, are extremely rare ... or are they?

There's no point going into detail regarding specific cases, but the kind of thing I'm talking about is when people are treated in ways that are so obviously wrong, even to a layman, that it's difficult to believe that there's nothing sinister going on.

Examples might include suddenly withdrawing insulin from an insulin-controlled diabetic and then watching her die of starvation because her body cannot metabolise the food she eats, or giving Warfarin to a known haemophiliac to find out how long it takes him to suffer a brain haemorrhage and die.

Not all cases of medical murder are as obvious as these. Some may well appear to be nothing more than the result of negligence or incompetence, as distinct from actual malpractice. We hear of people being left to bleed to death on trolleys because nobody thought - or could be bothered - to do anything to stop the bleeding, and there was the recent sad case of a teenager who went to her local hospital, having correctly diagnosed that she was suffering from meningitis, but nothing was done for eight hours, by which time it was too late to save her.

I'm not accusing any individual of murder. I wouldn't dare. The medical professionals know the law cannot touch them, but that doesn't stop them using those same laws against anybody who dares to speak out against their perceived crimes or inadequacies.

There are complaints procedures in place, but as anybody will know who has tried to complain about any kind of misconduct in any branch of the NHS, those "procedures" are there more to protect the wrongdoer than to identify and prosecute the criminals.

We are told Harold Shipman may have murdered hundreds of his patients before the truth finally came to light. I wonder how many people tried to complain while all this was going on, only to find that their complaint was not allowed. Friends and relatives of his victims, and even undertakers, must have expressed their concerns, only to have them brushed aside. His receptionists must have known something was wrong, but still he was able to continue playing God with the lives of people who trusted him, secure in the knowledge that any "investigation" would be nothing more than a cover-up.

He did make one mistake though, and it was that which led to his downfall, not the fact that he was a mass murderer. His crimes must have been known to dozens of his accomplices in the medical profession, but as always they covered up for him.

After Shipman's case we were told it would be made easier for people to complain, that safeguards would be put in place to prevent the same thing ever happening again, but the truth is that nothing has changed. The medical profession remains a closed community, protecting it's members at all costs, however horrific their crimes.

As I type this, another case is coming to light. So far they're saying this person, apparently a hospital worker, may have murdered as many as forty people. Only time will tell what the final total will be, and still they remain untouchable.

The medical professionals can get away with murder, and it seems that in too many cases this is exactly what they do, using and abusing their patients in the callous manner of a vivisectionist experimenting on laboratory animals purely to "see what happens".

There is no shortage of evidence to suggest that patients, most often babies, are murdered "to order", as may have been the case with Sunaina Chaudhari (click on the name for more details), simply because certain organs are wanted for "research" purposes, and we must never forget the Alder Hey scandal, where innumerable organs were taken without the permission or knowledge of the victims' parents.

Anybody attempting to make a complaint against this secretive profession very soon discovers that the complaints procedures are so complicated that they can only have been designed to put people off rather than to enable us to initiate an investigation into even the most obvious cases of malpractice.

I am told the first letter of complaint has to be made within six months of the offence. Shipman murdered his patients quickly, by lethal injection, but in many cases of medical murder the patient may take longer than six months to die, in which case bereaved relatives are told that they have left it too late, that the time starts when the mistreatment starts and that any complaint made outside this time limit is automatically invalidated or, as most people would put it, swept under the carpet yet again.

Anybody who dares to make a complaint while the abuse continues will find themselves labelled a trouble-maker and may well be banned from visiting their loved ones in hospital. This was my worry. I did complain, but that only antagonised them and made things even worse for the patient. She needed me. She relied on my daily visits. I couldn't risk endangering that by complaining more forcefully while she remained in their power.

In my experience, the murderers, pseudo-vivisectionists and bullies operating within the NHS will not tolerate complaints. How dare we, no more than an uneducted rabble in their eyes, question the "infinite wisdom" of the supposedly God-like creatures who populate our hospitals? It just isn't done, and that's exactly the way they want it to remain while they continue to abuse and kill our loved ones with impunity, administering treatments we can see are doing more harm than good.

Following the loss of a loved one, many people simply can't cope with the additional burden of writing letters of complaint. Time passes, and by the time they do start to get on top of things they are told there will be no investigation "because they did not complain within the time limit".

Those few who are not stopped by this first obstacle are then told that complaints can only be made by the victim's next-of-kin. This disqualifies friends, lovers, partners of unmarried people and most other concerned individuals from taking matters further, even though the official next-of-kin may not be the person best qualified to complain.

Families may be widely separated. Family feuds may keep people away. Employers are not always as sympathetic as they might be, especially in cases where the patient is expected to make a full recovery. It may be that, for any number of reasons, a person's next-of-kin is only able to visit once a week or less, whereas a friend living nearby may be visiting on a daily basis and best placed to see what's really going on.

Even when the person making the complaint is the patient's next-of-kin and does complain within the time limit, there are long and complicated procedures to be followed, letters to be written in a precise sequence and often to the same person twice, and when this yields no satisfactory result, the next stage is to sign away all your rights and those of your lost relative before being allowed to take matters further.

This is disgusting, but it's set out in black and white. Without signing a document giving up any right to independent legal or other action, bereaved relatives cannot even attempt the final stages of the complaints procedure. Neither are they allowed to complain to the medical Ombuds(wo)man.

I could name at least one NHS murderer, complete with General Medical Council registration details, but as things stand the murderer would then take me to court, safe in the knowledge that the evidence I would need to prove my case is safely hidden in the victim's medical record, and therefore inadmissible in a public court for reasons of "patient confidentiality"! That's a sick joke if ever I heard one when the patient herself has been murdered by this person. What greater harm could it do her now if her medical notes were to become public? Would it not occasionally be better to forget about the "rights" of somebody who no longer has any rights and concentrate instead on bringing her murderer to justice before somebody else pays the ultimate price?

No organisation is fit to investigate itself, and especially not in the case of the NHS, where essential evidence can be concealed in this way while money takes precedence over ethics. Medical murders are still happening. Nobody within the medical system has any interest in doing anything about it. They never will. It's up to us to get together and force the issue before we too find ourselves being experimented on or murdered while in their dubious "care".

What we need is a genuinely independent organisation with the resources, powers and clearances needed to enable them to carry out a proper investigation in response to a legitimate complaint from any concerned individual, and not just the victim's immediate next-of-kin, who may not care or may not have the time and energy to devote to such a battle, and a battle it certainly will be for anybody who dares to take on the might and the vested interests of the NHS and it's accomplices.

I'm not asking that patients' notes be thrown open to public scrutiny. Medical details need not be divulged to all and sundry, though the original complainant should be kept informed regarding the progress of any investigation. Patient confidentiality needs to be protected, (except when this is used purely as an excuse for withholding evidence), but if any one of us believes a member of the medical profession is acting in an unethical manner, we need to know (a) that our concerns will be taken seriously, (b) that we will be kept informed as to whether or not there is going to be an investigation and (c) the final outcome of any such investigation.

I'm sure NHS murderers are very few and far between, as in the rest of society, and that the vast majority of people working within the medical profession are everything we could wish them to be, but it cannot be denied that people continue to be murdered by those few who do it for the "research" money, or simply for the sense of power it gives them, safe in the knowledge that they will be protected by the closed nature of the NHS. That's what we've got to stop, this "mutual protection society" attitude, where those at the top wouldn't, and those further down the system wouldn't dare to complain about a colleague's misconduct, even when that misconduct extends to murder. The threat of never again being allowed to work in one's chosen profession is not something to be taken lightly.

If you feel as I do, if you too have lost a loved one to medical malpractice or if you have had a narrow escape from such a fate, the first thing we need to do is get in touch with each other. United we stand. Divided we may as well curl up and die at the hands of the murderous few within the NHS who want to sell our organs for transplant or "research".

Only by coming together can we have any hope of changing anything.

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