What is going on in the NHS?

Westonman · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:46 am **Posts:** 1806

First the news report:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/0 ... ar-a-mask/

Then these readers’ comments, first from Norman:

Quote:

Norman Disenfranchised Chap • 3 hours ago
Bureaucracy/Socialism/Communism.... take your pick.... they all seem to be working hand-in-hand these days.

Norman receives this reply from Pretty Polly, whose many previous posts on this subject suggests she knows what she is talking about.

Quote:

Pretty Polly Norman • 2 hours ago
Surely the deliberate denial of Hydroxychloroquine in the UK is a denial of the obligation of doctors to do their best for the sick and dying?

From ”The Sunday Telegraph”…..

”SIR – The chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has banned doctors from treating Covid-19 with anything other than paracetamol and, in severe cases, oxygen.
Colleagues have rightly condemned this response, which ignores the experience of doctors overseas. Professor Whitty’s position is that British doctors may not use therapies that have not undergone double blind controlled trials here. This could condemn many thousands to avoidable death through a failure to recognise that different rules should apply when patients are dying at such a rate.
The drug, hydroxychloroquine, is well-known, with a well-understood side-effect profile. It is safe. It also has a recognised mode of action in preventing replication of the virus. Comparison of the death rates in South Korea and Italy strongly suggests that it works to dramatically reduce the death rate. Evidence from India is similarly encouraging.
What sort of society do we live in when professors of rheumatology and consultants in respiratory medicine can only object anonymously? It is distressing that colleagues are too scared for their professional positions that they cannot advocate for their patients. Right or wrong, we have a duty to profess that which we believe to be true. To do otherwise brings into question our role in society. Are we doctors or are we civil servants?

Dr Steven R Hopkins
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire”

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