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| Subject: Statist UK doctors 'acting like vets with dementia patients': Damning report reveals communication failure of medical staff Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:50 am | |
| Some doctors believe sufferers 'don't suffer pain in the same way' Nurse found by researchers reprimanding elderly dementia sufferer for losing more weight
Doctors and nurses caring for dementia patients often ‘make it up as they go along’ because they have no idea how to treat them, a study has revealed.
The shaming research lifts the lid on attitudes to dealing with vulnerable patients and reports a series of disturbing admissions about how little regard some health professionals have for those suffering in later life.
One consultant admitted to using a ‘veterinary approach’ towards the sick.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107402/Doctors-acting-like-vets-dementia-patients-Damning-report-reveals-communication-failure-medical-staff.html |
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