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GP Confirmed Death at Home by Videocall

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V3ra Sun 28-Aug-22 18:53:04

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/28/widow-forced-verify-husbands-death-video-call-gp-would-not-visit/

I hope the link will work for people.
The GP said they no longer visit patients at home to confirm a death and asked the man's wife to hold her phone camera to his face and chest.

Truly appalling.

DaisyAnne Mon 29-Aug-22 23:34:43

I don't know if you noticed this is in the Torygraph. They are just as keen as the government to attack GPs and destroy the NHS.

I'm not saying the article is untrue, but you should take the paper's bias into account.

Deedaa Tue 30-Aug-22 00:09:00

When my mother died unexpectedly at my house I was certain she was dead straightaway. the ambulance came and they spent a few minutes trying to resuscitate her and then phoned the coroner for me. The coroner took all the details and organised the undertaker for me.

When DH died in hospital we all knew it was imminent and I knew the instant he'd gone. I sat with him for a while before ringing the bell. A doctor came in and asked if I wanted to leave while he confirmed the death. I said no because I wanted to see what he did. He listened to his chest, shone a light in his eyes and shouted in his ear. Not much more advanced than me really.

Baggs Tue 30-Aug-22 07:45:20

I'm not saying the article is untrue, but you should take the paper's bias into account.

Taking the ridiculousness of the story and the lack of corroboration of its pertinent points by trusted sources is exactly what some posters on this thread – including but not only me – have been doing. Sometimes it feels as if one's talking to the wall on GN ?

Baggs Tue 30-Aug-22 07:48:12

Thank you, deedaa. What you did, what you recognised without any professional help, is what ordinary people have been doing for millennia. I think it's important not to forget that flowers