{"id":1781,"date":"2009-05-04T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2009\/05\/04\/contract_doctor_gave_fatal_overdose"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:57:01","slug":"contract_doctor_gave_fatal_overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/05\/04\/contract_doctor_gave_fatal_overdose","title":{"rendered":"Contract doctor gave fatal overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2009\/may\/04\/german-doctor-patient-overdose\">Guardian: Exhausted relief doctor gave patient fatal dose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is about how a doctor working for an NHS contractor gave a 70-year-old patient a fatal overdose of diamorphine (heroin), apparently due to lacking concentration due to having only had three hours of sleep before starting his shift and having to make a circumnavigation of East Anglia during the night, on the &quot;wrong&quot; side of the road and without a navigation system.  Even taking into account the fact that most of the roads he would have had to use were dual carriageways, I can well believe that NHS contractors (this company was a subcontractor of a subcontractor) are requiring people to work in unreasonable and stressful conditions to keep costs down, as I have personally done home deliveries for a contractor in London, and I&#39;ve never had a delivery round which lasted less than twelve hours despite a quoted finishing time of much less than that.  These sorts of disasters will go on until those who run the NHS realise that profit-making companies only care about the bottom line, not about quality or anything else that cannot be measured in pounds and pence.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2009\/may\/04\/ubani-doctor-gray-dose-diamorphine\">here<\/a> and you can read the doctor&#39;s apology letter (forwarded to the family) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2009\/may\/04\/letter-ubani-doctor-dose-apology\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Exhausted relief doctor gave patient fatal dose This is about how a doctor working for an NHS contractor gave a 70-year-old patient a fatal overdose of diamorphine (heroin), apparently due to lacking concentration&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-sJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41916,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/41916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}