If no one listens to us, the NHS will face its own Grenfell-style disaster | Rachel Clarke
by Rachel Clarke from Economics | The Guardian on (#2W8C9)
The government is continuing to ignore medics' repeated warnings about understaffing. The result will be many more avoidable patient deaths
All we know is that the victim is young, female and unconscious. Hit by a lorry, we've been told, while walking through town. We're poised and waiting in gloves and gowns when the paramedics burst through the swing doors. We descend as one and, in a matter of seconds, we've cut her clothes away. She's naked but for her underwear, a tangle of wires and tubes, and the stiff plastic collar protecting her neck. There's no blood, no bruising, no twisted limbs.
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