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dailymail.co.uk - 1/9/2009

Starved to death in an NHS hospital: Damning inquiry highlights case of patient left without food for 26 days | Mail Online

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I am normally proud to call my self a student paediatric nurse, but these cases are just so sad. I really dont understand how a whole multidisciplinary team could have missed that Martin wasnt being given assistance to fed in anyway. I have chosen this profession to care for people, not to do ...

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