{"id":2112,"date":"2012-12-23T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:47:46","slug":"normalisation-of-cruelty-and-the-ethics-of-the-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Normalisation of cruelty&#8221; and the &#8216;ethics of the profession&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A court in the United Kingdom has awarded \u00a3410,000 ($663,000) in damages to\u00a038 plaintiff families for an extraordinary cataloque of neglect, abandonment and abuse at the National Health Service&#8217;s Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, England.\u00a0 The incidents occurred between 2002 and 2009.\u00a0 Britain&#8217;s Health Secretary said that the case illustrates &#8220;the normailisation of cruelty.&#8221;\u00a0 One elderly patient was left unwashed for 11 weeks and another was starved to death. 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