I’ve only popped in and out but I’m hoping once mum duties are done tonight to have a good read of the wiki. From your posts
@OldBlondie and a few other posters over the current discussion, there is a lot of sensible and open minded insight as to what can be expected as a reasonable standard within the nhs but I do find a lot of the blame culture around the nhs really difficult. I’ve worked with plenty of crap nhs workers and there are protocols to approach this. It’s broken for sure, but it’s broken from the top down (see the former fecking health minister mopping up 400k - alongside the mp wage which in itself could play for at least four more doctors in that particular nicu) and we all make mistakes but equally what is right for one patient isn’t always the same for the next patient.
The chat around lack of pm.. a bit of understanding and willingness to understand why a pm would be done is so helpful.. if LL had removed oxygen from a patient who then had a cardiac arrest from a low oxygen level which causes heart attack/cardiac arrest.. ‘low oxygen’ doesn’t show on pm, it would be classed as a natural cause ie heart attack with no toxins etc and taken a year for inquest/closure for the parents. And no, not one person had reason to suspect foul play and if they dared to suggest they had done then all the backlash would be (correctly) against why they didn’t immediately call the police on suspecting it.
I’m happy to offer explanations where I can and I being as objective and transparent as possible - including agreeing where failings are evident. Medicine is not black and white, there is almost always more than one explanation for anything from a nose bleed up to a death. Making the decision re what the cause is and proceeding to treat it is one of the main distinguishing factors between what being a doctor is as opposed to other members of the healthcare team, as is holding hands up and admitting you could have been or were wrong. Let’s also remember that she was essentially a manipulating compulsive psychopathic liar, taking in to account the calculating harm she purportedly carried out.
I will let you know once I’ve read a bit more around the background
@OldBlondie but I can see for sure the headline of ‘x number of families were interviewed as part of police investigation around LL’ once the verdict is reached. All we can reflect on now is how she’s kept out of the way of inflicting harm. How any of the families, or even the staff in that unit are able to trust another health professional again is beyond me though. I just can’t imagine how that would feel.
You have worded this perfectly - to the point it’s brought me to tears.
I know a lot think the insulin babies are the stronger evidence babies. I’m not medical so not really sure on the ins and outs of insulin (as was obvs the night the insulin discussion happened between yourself and another poster
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). This is why I especially like hearing from anyone that is a medical knowledge person, I really appreciate it when people like you take the time to explain things that some of us don’t understand. But for me, being said not medical person, I feel the circumstantial evidences is just as strong, if not stronger than the medical. Also in this type of crime there is no direct evidence as such, a lot is based on the patterns of what HSK typically do and how they do it, which fits in with most of how and when LL is supposed to have carried out these killings. They are all about certain patterns repeating, which I think we’ve already, and will continue to see the same patterns again and again, that I believe also become not only a pattern that are no longer coincidences but also patterns that become far more sinister too.
I also think LL is especially sadistic. For me babies G,I and N show her becoming far more calculating and devious in trying to cover her tracks, for me they also show how much more sadistic she’s becoming in her methods and the level of obvious pain inflicted by her. It gets worse after these, but these are the ones that stand out for me. And they also show particular obsession with the parents.
To give you quick examples that hopefully you’ll get to read about soon yourself; G involves deliberately over feeding causing pain and vomiting, leaving the child eventually with brain damage rather than dead. Also this baby the monitoring equipment magically turned off when LL in room. On the day of the 2nd attack on G, LL just so happened to look the mum of this baby up, and then mum of baby E straight after, what a coincidence. Baby I, she killed on her 4th attempt, this is the same baby she made the inappropriate bath comment about I to the parents, she also sent a sympathy card and still had photo of said card on her phone 3 years later, she also finally killed I on a night she’d text someone saying how quiet it was for her, sound familiar? And she reversed the mothers concern in the notes on child and when another nurse wanted to go in to help I, LL said it’ll be fine, the child then collapsed. Child N is the baby that had a bleeding condition, LL text a colleague saying she’d googled baby’s said condition and she’d read he only had 50/50 chance of living with having this, then just so happened that after involvement from LL yet again, baby N then was hurt causing bleeding, being one of only a few babies that had bleeding involved with. He was bleeding heavily from mouth and epiglottis was extremely swollen with bleeding. Again the notes don’t show any record of LL mentioning this blood earlier on. To me N shows she deliberately picked him as she thought it would be easy to cover her tracks. There was also all the Fb searches for these parents and more examples of falsifying notes and her account not matching other’s. If you get chance it’s all on page 4 of the wiki. (All the above is taken from what the prosecution have alleged she did on their opening statements for each baby).
I don’t know too much about hospital politics, but from what people share here about their experiences as patients/medics up and down the country, and what is on the news etc, it seems very obvious the problems lie at the top, and there are major problems up and down the country due to major funding cuts. I don’t think any hospital is truly perfect at the minute. Which must be awful for those that work within it, as it’s not absolutely not reflection on their hard work being put in, it seems mostly to be down to mismanagement from the top down, and lack of funding. Just for the record though, I had an op done privately recently, it still went wrong and they all panicked cos obvs there’s no emergency bit for these routine operations at private hospitals and as they said “this never happens here”. So private isn’t all it’s cracked up to be too. Also my consultant (orthopaedic) told me I’d be waiting 7 years for op on nhs, and that he felt awful that this was the state nhs is currently in but can’t do anything to change it, so I feel your pain about the bashing of the nhs/doctors/nurses when it isn’t their fault things are the way they currently are and they are also frustrated by it. The way it’s going is down the privatisation route I think, but thats a whole other story for another time.
Going back to LL, I deffo think the stuff on the wiki also shows her to be a pathological liar manipulating her colleagues and the parents. Also quickly going back to the evidence for E at the start of the day today, there was a lot of talk of oxygen levels and what they should be with the oxygen he was getting, and they weren’t what was expected given that. I just thought it was interesting, maybe, maybe not in relevance with what you said about LL potentially removing oxygen from a patient that wouldn’t show up on PM anyway
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I’m sorry. That is how I feel too sometimes.
I am so interested to see your take on the wiki and insight into things. Thanks for your contribution.
Me too
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