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Huge cost of hospital blunders as trust pays out £24.4m last year
9:00am Monday 3rd February 2014 in News By Oliver Evans, Health reporter, also covering Kidlington. Call me on 01865 425271
OXFORDSHIRE paid more for mistakes and blunders than any other hospital authority last year, as cases rocketed 1,000 per cent in under a decade.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust paid out £24.4m in 2012/13, up from £2.3m in 2003/04, when figures were first published.
It means £113.7m has been paid out over the 10 years.
New trust claims rose from 15 in 2003/04 to 84 last year, though the latest claims are unlikely to yet be among the payouts and not all will get cash.
Major sums are often to cover lifelong care costs for children who suffer brain damage as a result of mistakes during birth.
The trust pays premiums to the NHS Litigation Authority which then pays settlements.
Trust premiums have more than doubled to £15.4m.
The trust was unable to say how many cases the payouts cover but said it is one of England's biggest trusts and offers complex specialist care.
Last month, brain-damaged Louisa Ravouvou, 10, got £10m partly because John Radcliffe medics failed to spot bleeding on the brain before her birth.
In September, Sophie Collins, 22, got an undisclosed sum because doctors did not realise her bowel had ruptured after a car crash aged 11.
The East Oxford resident – who needs four support workers – was left brain damaged because her brain was starved of oxygen.
Oxford East Labour MP Andrew Smith said: "The staggering rise in medical negligence claims is a national phenomenon, driven in part by a more litigious culture and no-win, no-fee legal support."
Yet he warned: "Whilst it is right that the victims of negligence have proper compensation, we have to be careful that this rising tide of claims doesn't cross the line into penalising clinicians who are undertaking the more complex procedures with some inherent risk of going wrong."
City solicitor Susan Jarvis, who heads Blake Lapthorn's clinical negligence team, said about a third of her cases are for parents worried about care costs when they can no longer look after their child as an adult.
"Parents realise they are not going to be able to look after their offspring," she said. "Looking after a baby is very different from looking after an adult."
Dushka Kirtland is taking action with husband David against the trust to support brain-damaged son Paul, 30. They believe the damage resulted from an infection he caught at the John Radcliffe at his birth in May 1983.
The trust denies negligence.
Mrs Kirtland told the Oxford Mail: "We worry about what will happen for him when we will no longer be able to look after him.
"It did cross our minds before. We were so busy looking after him. It is only the fact that we have lost our parents and you suddenly realise we are next to shuttle off."
Richard Money-Kyrle, a partner at Darbys solicitors, said of the rise: "Life expectancy is better for severely disabled children and the cost of care for severely disabled children is much more expensive."
For example, stricter regulations mean more carers are now required to lift people, he said, while rising demand on hospitals increases risk.
No-win, no-fee deals were allowed from 2000 but solicitors can no longer get "success fees" from the NHS.
Mr Money-Kyrle said the "jury is out" on the impact of this. "It means that probably less low value, modest injury cases will be brought."
Trust medical director Professor Edward Baker said the trust is one of biggest in the country and is a specialist centre for complex care.
He said: "Providing excellent, safe care for our patients is our top priority and, for the overwhelming majority of the one million patients we see every year at our four hospitals, we achieve this."
Payouts had risen across England, he said, adding: "This is not a reflection of the quality or safety of our services."
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SamSpinx says...
In fact, I've got a plan... How about we all sue hospitals entirely out of existence, all of them, then see how we get on.
Modern life isn't fair, but lets face it, go back a few decades and these arguments wouldn't even exist. Isn't that reward enough?
Lets go even further, how much more suffering is potentially going to be caused by the lack of resources from this hole in hospital funding? Who is going to pay for that? It is out of everyone's pocket.
12:52am Tue 4 Feb 14
lil_miss_ME says...
I am not saying every case is people pulling a fast one, but equally I don't think the hospital staff are always to blame!
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"Everywhere, the ceremony of innocence is drowned;
the best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity."
— William Butler Yeats (1919)
W.B. Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming," captured the global despair that followed World War I. Millions, including over 100,000 U.S. soldiers, were killed or wounded. Europe was in turmoil.
New countries were formed. New ideologies were taking root across the globe. Disease, specifically a new strain of the flu virus, eventually killed 50,000,000 people in a grim footnote to one of the bloodiest wars in human history.
Through the Great Depression and World War II, astride powerful new industrial and technological engines, a relatively young United States drove itself into the richest, most powerful nation on earth. It became the lamp-lit Promised Land for teeming masses of dispossessed people from every corner of the globe.
Although not without bumps, bruises and outright brutality, America absorbed countless millions of these immigrants into its factories, schools and neighborhoods.
They came in search of The American Dream. Many found their definition of it. Now, however, we find ourselves in a time where that Dream, even simply defined, is being called into question.
In my view, the concern is appropriate, not so much in relation to America's military and economic might, but in terms of its position as a world leader in a time far more complex and dangerous than the period after World War I.
As simple terminology, "The American Dream"is code. It is the simplification, or oversimplification, of more complex ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. As such, the phrase is limited in what it can convey.
A research center at Xavier University annually conducts a State of the American Dream survey "to gauge what [the Dream] is and to whom, to measure America's confidence in itself and its future, and to understand the aspirations and values likely to directly impact current and future economic, political and cultural decisions."
Here are some of the findings from the survey:
♦ The American Dream remains remarkably resilient despite a continued wave of bad news, enormous economic challenges, international uncertainty, and institutional distrust.
♦ While confidence in the economy and optimism about America's place in the world have significantly declined, respondents are nonetheless still confident in their own personal ability to achieve their American Dream.
♦ Currently, the four most prominent definitions of The American Dream are "a good life for me and my family," "financial security,""opportunity," and "freedom."
Although I do not know how many respondents participated in the Xavier University survey or anything about the social and economic status of those who did, I found the responses somewhat troublesome.
As to the first response, it does not surprise me that the American Dream remains resilient. It is, after all, an article of faith, like Scripture.
That aside, more and more, economists and researchers are finding that, as it is defined here, The American Dream may be out of reach for massive numbers of citizens, including new immigrants.
In the second point, respondents apparently make a distinction between The American Dream as a shared possibility for all, and a possibility for at least one. People play the lottery with the same idea in mind.
The last point is particularly troublesome in that it runs to the very substance of how, I suppose, most Americans define The American Dream.
To the point, its definition is interpreted in ways that are basically materialistic or self-serving: my family (my house, my car, my job), my financial security, my opportunity, and even my freedom.
These ideas, no doubt, have underpinnings in the "rugged individualis" that is so much a part of our national historical narrative, but do not reflect a vision of the future: 21st century requirements for shared learning (problem solving); shared work; personal responsibility; shared sacrifice; and shared resources.
As I suggested earlier, the term "The American Dream" is code for a larger set of ideas set down in part by the Founding Fathers. There is nothing wrong with that.
But there is something wrong if today's adults — whether teachers, parents, or others — teach our young people an American Dream that only prepares them for obsolescence in a complex, changing world.
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"We look forward to the challenge of stepping up in distance," JU head coach Ron Grigg said. "The women will run 6k and the men will run their first 8k of the season. It will be a telling sign as we approach our final preparations for the A-Sun meet in two more weeks."
Last time out, both teams would put up solid efforts in the FLRunners.com Invitational on Sept 30 in Titusville, Fla.
Junior Joane Pierre finished first on the women's side with a time of 17:35.20 as JU took second in the meet.
Sophomore Svenja Meyer ran the 11th fastest time in program history (18:18.60) to finish in sixth place. Senior Baliee Hedstrom was eighth with running the 17th fastest mark all-time at 18:30.20.
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On the men's side, sophomore Esteban Mendez led the Dolphins by finishing 39th. Senior Jesse Brantman was the next highest finisher at 41st place, while freshman Martin Crouse followed him within seconds to take 42nd.
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I've got a story for you. Obamacare is rotten to the core. It's because the state is incompetent. I'm moving to Massachusetts. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?????
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begone...good riddance...
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Well, I shopped for a new policy on the CoveredCA.com web site, and while the site definitely had its problems, I was able to sign up for new health care, and it will save me around $500/month and is a much better policy with lower co-pays. I guess that to Republicans that's a "disaster".


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DALEVILLE, Ind. — The books are all packed up. The desk has been sold. The office is almost empty.
After ministering to the congregation at Daleville's Trinity Community Church for the last 12 years, the Rev. Paul Pletcher is moving on.
"This has been an interesting, loving place to work," said Pastor Pletcher, 66. "I love what I do. I've enjoyed being the pastor here at Trinity." Still, Pletcher said it's time to make a change.
The preacher will retire from regular day-to-day ministry and seek to serve as an interim pastor that ministers to congregations for shorter terms while they are in between full-time leadership. Pletcher plans to attend training in Chicago this fall through Interim Pastoring Ministries to prepare for the work.
"It's a way of extending my ministry," said Pletcher. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to minister to a variety of churches and to help them transition."
At the same time, it allows him a little more flexibility in his life after 41 years of pastoring. "A pastor's job is a demanding job – it takes a lot of hours," he said.
Pletcher's wife of 43 years, Donna, served as church secretary at Trinity. The couple both grew up in northern Indiana, but Pletcher's decades of pastoring started out in Michigan. After attending Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, he first pastored in Jackson, Mich. He then served in Goshen, Ind.; Aurora, Ill. and Traverse City, Mich., before coming to Daleville.
"God's kept us pretty much in a big circle," said Pletcher. He anticipates serving in his interim capacity around the Midwest as well. "We'll see where the Lord leads us."
The couple will continue to make their home base at their Anderson residence.
"We'll still be in our home and still have our neighbors, that helps," said Donna. With a little less demand on their time, the Pletchers are likely to get in a little more time with their two out-of-state daughters and grandchildren. Donna also enjoys quilting, and her husband enjoys working in the yard.


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The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation continues to collect information related to a Sunday morning fatal shooting involving a Waterloo police officer.
The DCI says Officer Kyle Law discharged his weapon, hitting and killing 22-year-old Derrick Ambrose Jr. of Waterloo.
"He didn't say stop, he didn't say not one thing," said Trice Scott. "He didn't say a word all we heard was 2 gunshots."
That's how Trice Scott describes what happened to his friend - Derrick Ambrose, Jr. of Waterloo.
Scott was standing nearby at the time of the shooting.
Scott says Ambrose was just a fun guy.
"He got along with everyone," said Trice. "He was just a good guy, a cool guy."
Saturday night, the two were out at New World Lounge II in Waterloo.
It's a weekly ritual for the friends.
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According to a news release, the Waterloo Police Department received an emergency call indicating shots were fired at local bar, New World Lounge II, located at 504 Riehl Street, Waterloo.
The release states Officer Law was working in the area and saw Ambrose pointing a gun at a crowd of people. They say Officer Law ordered Ambrose to drop the gun but Ambrose ran from the area.
The DCI says during a brief chase, Ambrose stepped out from behind a tree. They say that's when Officer Law shot Ambrose, striking him in the head. Ambrose died at the scene.
"We want to make sure innocent bystanders aren't injured and we want to do all we can to avoid deadly force but sometimes these situations evolve to the point where deadly force is utilized," said Daniel Trelka, Waterloo Public Safety Director.
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NEW YORK -- Jorge Posada entered play Monday hitting .345 since asking out of the lineup May 14 before a game against the Red Sox, raising his batting average from .165 to .226.
"I think everything kind of came to a head for Jorgie on that day, and I think he was able to release some frustration," manager Joe Girardi said. "And it was probably good for him, it was probably good for all of us. And it just seems like he's continued to work. He's put good at-bat after good at-bat, and it's turned around for him. We believed that he was going to hit, and it just took a little bit longer, maybe, this year than it has for some other guys. But he's swung the bat great."
That has been particularly true since June 5. In six games between that date and Monday's finale with Cleveland, Posada was 13-for-22 (.591).
But the 17-year Yankees veteran -- who said the May 14 episode is behind him -- cannot seem to put a finger on what has been going right for him after a trying start to a new role as a designated hitter.
"Just kept fighting," Posada said. "It's really just one of those things -- keep working and keep working and keep fighting. And good things are happening now."
Girardi said he would not shy away from starting Posada against left-handers, which the Yankees will face Wednesday and Thursday, in Texas' Derek Holland and C.J. Wilson. Posada had started the season 0-for-27 against southpaws but is 3-for-5 since.
If there is a bad time to be on a hot streak, it may soon be approaching for Posada, as the Yankees will play in National League cities for six games starting Friday in Chicago.
"I don't know what's going to happen, to tell you the truth," Posada said. "I'll be ready in case they need me."
Martin scratched late with back stiffness
NEW YORK -- Russell Martin's stiff lower back continues to be an issue for the Yankees, forcing the catcher to be scratched from Monday's lineup less than an hour before the first pitch against the Indians.
Martin took batting practice earlier in the day at Yankee Stadium, but manager Joe Girardi said that it was apparent he was still battling the stiffness, which has forced him to sit out five of the team's last six games.
"We watched him take BP and he just didn't look like he had the rotation he needed," Girardi said. "He did feel better today than he did yesterday, but we're going to wait and make sure that his BP is normal before we put him back out."
Martin went 0-for-4 in Sunday's 9-1 victory over the Indians, his return to action after missing four games with the injury. After that game, Martin acknowledged he was still experiencing the stiffness.
"It's still there a little bit," Martin said on Sunday. "It's something I can play with. I can run, throw, hit, even though I didn't hit today."
Francisco Cervelli replaced Martin behind the plate Monday against Cleveland, batting ninth. He went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts, but drew raves on his pitch-calling and blocking from starter A.J. Burnett, who allowed a run in 7 2/3 innings.
Noesi a possibility for Thursday start
NEW YORK -- If Hector Noesi is to be tabbed for his first Major League start, the Yankees' rookie right-hander won't find out until Wednesday.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that the team continues to list Thursday's starter against the Rangers as "TBA," although Noesi will be up for the nod if he is not needed in relief before then.
"It's something we could definitely consider," Girardi said. "If I had to use him in the next three days, then we'd do something else."
Noesi was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Sunday after being optioned on Wednesday. He is 1-0 with a 1.76 ERA in four relief appearances, finishing three games.
Now in his third stint at the big league level this year, Noesi was a starter at Triple-A, going 1-1 with a 3.92 ERA in four starts.
The Yankees need a starter with Bartolo Colon on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left hamstring. If Noesi is used in relief, candidates at Triple-A include David Phelps and Adam Warren.
Hughes to face hitters Tuesday in Tampa
NEW YORK -- Phil Hughes will get a chance to pass an early hurdle of the rehab process on Tuesday, taking the mound in Tampa, Fla., for about 45 pitches in an extended spring training game.
Hughes is set to face a selection of organizational prospects at the club's Himes Avenue Minor League complex, the first time he'll face hitters in game situations since April.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that his concern will be how Hughes' arm bounces back between innings, and if there is consistency with his velocity.
If all goes well, Girardi said that the Yankees could see a Hughes return as "very realistic sometime in July."
"An exact date, we can't tell you, because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow or two starts from now," Girardi said.
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Yankees infielder Eric Chavez (fractured fifth metatarsal in left foot) has not yet resumed running, though he has been hitting soft-toss in the batting cages. ... Left-handers Pedro Feliciano (left rotator cuff strain) and Damaso Marte (left shoulder labrum inflammation) are playing catch on flat ground ... Right-hander Rafael Soriano (right elbow inflammation) was scheduled to see team physician Christopher Ahmad on Monday to determine when he can begin playing catch.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Matt Fortuna is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Photographs can serve as "visual notes" and bring back memories of things seen and experienced. The photographs in this notebook serve as visual reminders of the ancient ruins and temples of Egypt and may inspire the writer to create their own version of "Egypt Notes."
Acerca del autorBernice Williams
Berenike Chicago, Illinois, USA
Originally I studied painting and sculpture. I took my first photography course primarily out of curiosity, but it soon became my preferred creative medium. From 1998 to 2001, I worked as an artist in Egypt on a project documenting inscriptions on temple walls. During that time I continued with my photography, primarily concentrating on the architectural space and details of ancient Egyptian monuments and the Islamic structures in Cairo. My photographs have been shown in both group and solo exhibitions and have won several awards. My favorite subject is architectural imagery, but I tend to photograph whatever captures my eye or imagination. Since I began looking through a lens, I realized that I was searching for beauty with my camera. I will always be totally fascinated by the ability to capture a fleeting magical moment of beauty through the mechanism of light passing through a lens, and then being able to hand over that same moment to someone else.
Fecha de publicación 04 de noviembre de 2012
Dimensiones Comercial 80 páginas Impresión en color (en papel no estucado blanco)
Categoría Fotografía artística
Etiquetas ancient Egypt, temples, statues, travel, Egypt, Akenahten, sculpture, sketchbook, sketching, writing, notes, notebook, photos, pictures, photographs
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What would happen if Flannery O'Connor wrote a book in the one-album-per-tome 33 1/3 series about the Fall's Hex Enduction Hour? Hayden Childs, who wrote his own book in the series on Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights, has found out: "The next night, Haze parked the Kraken in front of the Hotel Aggro and climbed up it and began to preach. 'I tell you that this is the home of the vain!' he called. 'Too much romantic here! I destroy romantics! Actors! Kill it! Kill it-ah!' He'd begun to slip on the slick rust, and his arm made a vague motion describing the crescent arc of English longhorns. A short man with a feral look stopped to listen." More at the link. [PowellsBooks.BLOG]
Help. I get the general over-arching hilarity of this (yes, yes — The Fall, appropriation, pastiche, etc) — but why Flannery O'Connor? And The Fly? Most random selections possible? Someone please explain; I don't even care if it makes me look completely idiotic to ask this.
You have my interest.
@the rich girls are weeping: I don't know about The Fly but damn near every Flannery O'Connor book or short story has some combination of a raving preacher, violence, and the word "feral."
Maura, your notice of this parallel is hilarious.
@slowburn: All is explained behind the link. But I see now I was having reading comprehension issues. He mentions The Fly, but … oh, just go read. (:
All this got you feeling voxish? Check out "Peverted By Language: Fiction Inspired by THE FALL," edited by Peter Wild (Serpent's Tail Books). A mixed bag, but containing some truly inspired takes.


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I would purchase the 200-400 simply because I like the flexibility of zoom. It woul be a wonderful addition on my 70-200
I zoom with my feet. ;-)
Good one
Somtimes zooming with feet may result in causing the subject to fly/run away because you step on branches (by accident) With the zoom you can sit in the same position, rotate with the gimbal and zoom close and further away (even add the 1.4 ext)


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April is the cruellest month, breeding
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Unreal City,[8]
"Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,[12]
[1] I am not Russian; I come from Lithuania, I'm German. (Infoplease Editors)
[2] Cf. Ezekiel 2:1.
[3] Cf. Ecclesiastes 12:5.
[4] Fresh blows the wind / To the homeland / My Irish darling / Where do you linger? (Infoplease Editors)
V. Tristan und Isolde, i, verses 5-8.
[In this opening scene, a ship sails from Ireland to Cornwall carrying Isolde, accompanied by Tristan, to meet her betrothed, King Mark. A young sailor sings a melancholy song about a woman left behind. Later a magic potion is drunk by both Tristan and Isolde and they fall deeply in love. (Infoplease Editors)
[5] Od'→Oed' (Editor).
[6] Desolate and empty the sea (Infoplease Editors)
Id. iii, verse 24.
[In act 2 Tristan is mortally wounded and leaves Cornwall for his castle in Brittany, where, in act 3, a musical conversation takes place as he waits for Isolde to come to heal him. A shepherd is asked to look for Isolde's ship and this is his reply (Infoplease Editors)]
[7] I am not familiar with the exact constitution of the Tarot pack of cards, from which I have obviously departed to suit my own convenience. The Hanged Man, a member of the traditional pack, fits my purpose in two ways: because he is associated in my mind with the Hanged God of Frazer, and because I associate him with the hooded figure in the passage of the disciples to Emmaus in Part V. The Phoenician Sailor and the Merchant appear later; also the "crowds of people," and Death by Water is executed in Part IV. The Man with Three Staves (an authentic member of the Tarot pack) I associate, quite arbitrarily, with the Fisher King himself.
[8] Cf. Baudelaire:
[These are the opening lines of Les Sept Vieillards, roughly:
—Infoplease Editors]
[9] Cf. Inferno, iii. 55-7.
"si lunga tratta
[10] Cf. Inferno, iv. 25-7:
"Quivi, secondo che per ascoltare,
[11] A phenomenon which I have often noticed.
[12] Cf. the Dirge in Webster's White Devil.
[13] Hypocrite reader!—my doppelganger—my brother! (Infoplease Editors)
V. Baudelaire, Preface to Fleurs du Mal.
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