Admitted Misreading Blood Tests of Dehydrated Patient
Derby Evening Telegraph › May 12, 2011
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THE family of an elderly patient gave him water through a damp flannel after medical staff refused to put him on a drip.
And a Royal Derby Hospital nurse told Kenneth Walters' daughter "you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink" - days before he died from dehydration.See the full content of this document
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Admitted Misreading Blood Tests of Dehydrated Patient
Mr Walters, 83, dropped from 49 kilos to 38 kilos in weight in just two weeks, with his family describing him as "emaciated, skin and bone".
But still the Ripley pensioner was not put on a drip or give...See the full content of this document
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