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Should we be treating him?

dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6396603.stm

Extra guards for violent patient

Hospital officials have spent £42,000 on security measures to cope with a single abusive patient.
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI) paid for extra security guards and a special room to deal with convicted rapist and kidney dialysis patient Donald Gibson.

The security costs for Gibson were on top of the average annual cost of £30,000 for his dialysis.

Gibson, from Edinburgh, was jailed for nine months last year after assaulting a nurse and racially abusing a security guard at the Edinburgh hospital.

He currently receives kidney dialysis at ERI three times a week, requiring two security guards to be with him when he is on site.



should he be treated?
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    Is this paid by the gov't?
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  • PaperPlatesPaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    Collin wrote:
    Is this paid by the gov't?

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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Collin wrote:
    Is this paid by the gov't?

    well us as taxpayers pay for the National Health Service... but his treatment is free to him
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Depends what ya mean by 'treated'. He should probably be treated for being a mentalist, aswell as for having fucked kidneys.
  • UKDaveUKDave Posts: 5,557
    Personally I'd say if you abuse the nurses and the doctors you get no treatment, rot until you learn to behave...
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    UKDave wrote:
    Personally I'd say if you abuse the nurses and the doctors you get no treatment, rot until you learn to behave...


    if he gets no treatment he dies with 7-10 days and so that might be on their minds...

    its a real tricky one as i know if my wife worked there and there was a convicted rapist who was assaulting nurses coming in... it wouldnt sit easy with me obviously... but then perhaps letting him die is severe?

    well he is a rapist, so maybe not severe actually!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • UKDaveUKDave Posts: 5,557
    dunkman wrote:
    if he gets no treatment he dies with 7-10 days and so that might be on their minds...

    its a real tricky one as i know if my wife worked there and there was a convicted rapist who was assaulting nurses coming in... it wouldnt sit easy with me obviously... but then perhaps letting him die is severe?

    well he is a rapist, so maybe not severe actually!

    Treatment has been offered and is available... he just needs to behave and he'll get it...
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    UKDave wrote:
    Treatment has been offered and is available... he just needs to behave and he'll get it...

    i know... but if he doesnt 'behave' and they refuse service, then he'll die... which is severe punishment for assualt.


    i personally dont think they should treat him if he misbehaves, but then i dont have the death of someone on my conscience
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • ThumbingMyWay32ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    As long as he's in a government controlled institution, and not sentenced to death, they have no choice but to treat him. What's the difference between keeping this guys kidneys running and paying to have him "rehabilitated?"
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:
    they have no choice but to treat him.

    they do have a choice... the NHS can refuse treatment to people who are being violent/or may cause violence in their buildings
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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