Neglected by 'lazy' nurses, man, 22, dying of thirst..., rang the police to beg for water Options

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Neglected by 'lazy' nurses, man, 22, dying of thirst rang the police to beg for water

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A young life snatched away: Kane Gorny with his mother Rita while
being treated for a brain tumour

Daily Mail on March 5, 2010 by Emily Andrews

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A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital.

Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help.

They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control.

The next day his mother Rita Cronin found him delirious and he died within hours.

She said nurses had failed to give him vital drugs which controlled fluid levels in his body. 'He was totally dependent on the nurses to help him and they totally betrayed him.'

A coroner has such grave concerns about the case that it has been referred to police.

Sources say they are investigating the possibility of a corporate manslaughter charge against St George's Hospital in Tooting, South London.

Mr Gorny, from Balham, worked for Waitrose and had been a keen footballer and runner until he was diagnosed with a brain tumour the year before his death.

The medication he took caused his bones to weaken and he was admitted to St George's for a hip replacement in May last year. The operation left him immobile and unable to get out of bed.

His 50-year-old mother says that he needed to take drugs three times a day to regulate his hormones. Doctors had told him that without the drugs he would die.

Although he had stressed to staff how important his medication was, she said, no one gave him the drugs.

She said that two days after his hip operation, while Miss Cronin was at work, he became severely dehydrated but his requests for water were refused.

He became aggressive and nurses called in security guards to restrain him.

After they had left, he rang the police from his bed to demand their help.

Miss Cronin, who is divorced from her son's father Peter, said: 'The police told me he'd said, "Please help me. All I want is a drink and no one is helping me".

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The next morning she visited him before going to work. 'He was delirious and his mouth was open,' she said. 'I gave him a drink of Ribena.

'I told three nurses there was something wrong with my son and they said, "He's fine" and walked off. I started to cry and a locum doctor who was there told me not to worry.

'Eventually the ward doctor came round, took one look at Kane and started shouting for help.'

Miss Cronin was asked to leave her son's bedside. 'He died an hour later,' she said. 'I didn't even realise he was dying. I didn't even have a chance to say goodbye.'

The death certificate said Mr Gorny had died because of a 'water deficit' and 'hypernatraemia' - a medical term for dehydration.

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This post has been edited by pict: Mar 5 2010, 11:07 PM

[s4t]

But they love their healthcare in Britain. We've been told it works just fine.

Poor young man.

[Kilmerfan]

There is no excuse for this. How hard is it to give some one some water?

[cirej2000]

Sheesh! That's worse than the treatment my mom got at the various facilities she was at while she was dying (before we started showing up around the clock). Pretty piss poor stuff there.

[laziter]

It's not hard unless you are trying to kill off a patient with cancer.

[Rock N' Roll...]

But they love their healthcare in Britain. We've been told it works just fine.

Poor young man.

Oh, believe me, it's every bit as bad here in this country depending on where you are and what hospitals you have and whether one is knowledgable enough to realize that mistakes like this are being made. Most here don't know any better when doctors make such horrible mistakes that either injure or kill their family or friends.

My father was left to literally drown in his own fluids because of both neglegence and flat out stupidity just like this.

He couldn't urinate on his own (had prostate cancer) and needed a catheter to go no matter what, yet they never did this all the while they were pumping him full of IV fluids for the whole night after I had left him at the hospital. He was there because he had contracted pneumonia and I took him there for that because his lungs were filling up with fluid even before they started filling him up with the IV's.

He went into congestive heart failure as a result and that gross mistake damn near killed him before his cancer finally did. My aunt (who fortunately came in during the night when the rest of us went home) and a quick acting nurse saved his life just in time by cathetertizing him and pumping him full of Lasix through his IV. Before the Lasix took effect they had drained a whopping 1600 CC from his bladder right away, then another 2000+CC once the Lasix took effect, all within an hour and a half's time.

There were two other huge mistakes that the doctors (and a pharmacist) made upon him that also nearly took his life only a couple of weeks after he finally got to go home.

I have several other stories that are just as bad and even worse on how several of my family members that were outright killed in hospitals here from such stupid mistakes, so yes this kind of crap happens here in this country and rather often, it's just that many don't know about it.

I can't urge everyone enough to always have a family member who knows something about medicine or nursing (and isn't afraid to RAISE SOME HELL to get a problem resolved!) and always have a person there all the time to watch out for your loved one in the hospital so as to guard against such mistakes. Always ask what they are giving the patient, who prescribed it and why and if they bring something in that you haven't seen them give them before then question it and why and if it's unsual or doesn't make sense. Make them hold off on giving them such medicine until you get to ask the doctor what the deal is!

Most hospital staffers are severely overworked (16+ hours every day) and are tired and fatigued to no end. Anyone in this condition is prone to easily making mistakes, yet our lives are in their hands. The government makes truckers only drive for so many hours per day to avoid making deadly mistakes from fatigue, yet no such rules exist for hospital workers/nurses.

Go figure? (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/stop_insanity.gif)

Edited to add, weren't we all assured that dying by dehydration didn't hurt at all and actually was pleasantly euphoric as with the government ordered killing of Terri Schiavo? (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

This post has been edited by Rock N' Roll Right Winger: Mar 6 2010, 02:14 AM

[Kilmerfan]

If he had murdered a 2 year old they would have given him all kinds of goodies.

Eight years of pampering, then a new life

Scroll down and vomit.