Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
There are two professions we trust with our lives. One is the police; the other is doctors ? along with the nurses who act on their instructions. This explains the overwhelming public interest in revelations of the betrayal of that vital trust, both by the NHS at hospitals in Stafford and Morecambe Bay and ? the most recent lifting of the veil ? the police?s alleged attempt to smear the family of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
There has been an almost pathological refusal to accept the evidence of malpractice as it has piled up over the years, even when it has been as stark and unambiguous as a mound of corpses (whether in the Mid Staffs mortuary, or at the Hillsborough football stadium). Those on the left have been particularly wilful in dismissing the very idea of callous misconduct within the NHS: the nationalised health service monopoly, free at the point of use, represents their ideal of the best of Britain, and any denigration of it therefore an act of malevolent political subversion.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...utting-their-own-interests-first-8671134.html
There has been an almost pathological refusal to accept the evidence of malpractice as it has piled up over the years, even when it has been as stark and unambiguous as a mound of corpses (whether in the Mid Staffs mortuary, or at the Hillsborough football stadium). Those on the left have been particularly wilful in dismissing the very idea of callous misconduct within the NHS: the nationalised health service monopoly, free at the point of use, represents their ideal of the best of Britain, and any denigration of it therefore an act of malevolent political subversion.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...utting-their-own-interests-first-8671134.html