The NHS can be a dangerous place when you're elderly - The Observer 2nd December 2007

Ageing patients need compassion and assurance from hospitals. All too often, they are treated with indifference An elderly man is taken by ambulance to the Worcester Royal Hospital on Sunday evening. His wife suspects that the pains on the left side of his chest are caused by pneumonia, which he has contracted four times previously. After running a test on his heart, the ambulance paramedics agree that it looks serious. On arrival at the accident and emergency department, he is given an X-ray. But then nothing much happens.

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