#I think the real reason people are horrified by nhs is because he used good and kind lxc as his weapon

[ibijau]

You know that I find funny when people say something about how bad NHS was? bc I think that he really could have been far worse like my boy could have really taken far more damaging paths towards revenge in which he fucked everyone over but he cared about the collateral damage in all the ways he could during that time :p and there’s also the fact that in that world? he’s one of the people who have the least amount of blood in their hands :p

nhs could have been so, so much worse. I mean, not to say that what he did was all sunshine and flowers! but honestly, you could argue that he probably attempted to have as few deaths as possible.

There are only three deaths that were unavoidable for his revenge plan: Mo Xuanyu, Su She, and Jin Guangyao. Qin Su is collateral damage but nhs had no way to know for certain how she’d react to the news, and I’d argue that he was right to let her know the situation. The Juniors were put in danger in Yi City, but considering that wangxian were also being led that way, one might argue that the danger was always controlled. nhs knows what lwj and wwx are capable of!

I’ll admit that killing those cats was creepy as fuck but considering nhs was raised in a sect that feels casual desecration of corpses is ok, his standards for morality are what they are from the start.

The fact of releasing his brother’s fierce corpse in the streets and letting him make his own way to jgy was a shitty decision, that almost killed some children. But at this point, jgy is clearly very, very close to making his escape, and for all this part of the story nhs is making increasingly riskier decisions so I’d argue there’s a hint of desperation here.

Still, it could all have been worse. I’m the first to call nhs a monster for his actions because, welp, it’s fun, but the height of his cruelty was killing a bunch of cats and letting other people’s fucked up sense of morality come into play. nhs hasn’t killed people in a fit of rage, like wwx and nmj. He also hasn’t tortured anyone to death, like wwx and jgy. 

he isn’t a good man, but he could have been so much worse and honestly, wwx has no fucking right to be pissy at nhs the way he is in CQL because my good man, even if you’ve decided the crimes of your old life don’t count anymore, you still did far worse than nhs did lol

#jau rants #baby weasel #I think the real reason people are horrified by nhs is because he used good and kind lxc as his weapon #but welp that's all he had at that moment #and lxc was trying to heal and save the man who murdered his brother lol #timetomakeanewwish

[thebookiemonster14]

DYSTOPIAS: Reading Them, Writing Them, Living Them.

or: IT’S REV WRITES A BIG FANCY ARTICLE TIME!!

I finished 1984 last week, which I’m frankly ashamed to confess. It’s ridiculous that I haven’t read such an intriguing take on fascism before now, partly due to the fact that fascism is the exact topic my college Politics lessons are going now, and partly because the way the world’s swinging, we might end up having a Ministry of Truth without us even noticing it.

The rise of fake news (which refers to both real lies spoken boldly on TV and any opinion that makes Donald Trump throw his toys out of his pram,) has in the past been a worrying precursor to many a dictatorship. Everyone remembers the lies Adolf Hitler spread about the Jewish population, everyone knows that North Korea tell their citizens that the country has won the world cup year on year in a feeble attempt to enshrine the nation’s glory for just a little longer. Yet we ignore the widespread use of food banks, the crumbling of the NHS despite the best efforts of junior doctors’ strikes to change something, goddammit. We ignore the spike in hate crime, whether it’s against Muslims, black people, or the LGBT+ community. In history lessons we condemn the world of 1930s Europe as if it’s only a fairytale, but why aren’t we more worried when at every opportunity, the signs show us we’re now leading ourselves directly into a dystopia?

Dystopians aren’t an uncommon genre nowadays, what with the rise of The Hunger Games and every subsequent rehashing of the narrative. A girl, normal in every way but *one*, gets dragged headfirst into a fight she didn’t asked to be involved in, then saves the world single-handedly, picking up a few boyfriends along the way. Or at least that’s what the media would have us think of the genre, but after copious years of reading many truly terrible YA books, and twelve months of living in a gradually-worsening apocalyptic excuse of a world, I’ve come to realise why so many people like the dystopian genre, and the revelation has come with both discovering dystopians outside of the YA genre, and trying my hand at writing my own. Young adult novels give us hope.

On the 9th October, I went to an event for the Manchester Literary Festival to celebrate two debut authors’ dystopian novels: Megan Hunter’s ‘The End We Start From,’ a sparse yet painfully candid tale about a new mother navigating a flooded London, and Omar al Akkad’s ‘American War,’ where in a not-too-unrealistic US, a girl tries to survive in in Louisiana while a brutal civil war marches on through the country. The former create a lonely poignancy through almost lyrical language in the face of trauma, such as “I make tea like I’m supposed to,” and the latter makes use of cynical wit, the author’s own experiences of conflict reporting, and interestingly, written documents relating to the world the story is set in, which created a world similar to the totalitarian Oceania of 1984. What all three books have in common, though, is their grounding in their respective worlds. There are no revolutions, (or at least, any successful ones,) but only characters surviving through or succumbing to the horrors of the day-to-day lives. This narrative both intrigues and horrifies me, as it implies a tyrannical dystopia is something the human race can simply ‘get used to.’

I don’t know about you, but I don’t ever want to get used to Donald Trump. I don’t ever want to wake up in the morning and shrug my shoulders when I see what executive order he’s passed overnight that blocks the rights of yet another group of people. I don’t ever want to think that a terrorist attack in one of our cities was inevitable, because if we get into that mindset, we’ve already lost. We’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that this is how it’s always going to be, and it isn’t. We just need to keep faith.

This is why, a little over three months ago, I decided to create my own narrative in a dystopia, one which combined the haunting intimacy of the adult dystopias with the hope of the young adult ones that have nowadays become so popular, and out came The Snake Charmer. The dystopia in question that I’ve written is an alternate-universe UK where everybody has their death date on their arm, and when it reaches the day in question, a state-employed assassin murders them. The main character, Ezra, is one of the people who collects these dates, and the first half of the book follows him in his journey to gain the courage he needs to overcome the fears he’s built up about the system as he falls in love with a boy he’s been assigned to find the date of. (Admittedly, after this point the story does take a Hunger Games-esque narrative, with Ezra becoming the face of the rebellion and even some fire involved, but that’s just me being a walking piracy advert.)

The reason I wanted to write a story like Ezra’s is because I think dystopias are a fine line between showing the horror of the day-to-day system and the fear it instills in people, and letting the characters overcome that fear to achieve greatness. Not that I’m not very impressed by the two debut books, far from it: the bleakness fits with the humanity of the world, of someone just trying to get by without an earth-shattering revolution, and it makes the books haunting and poignant. But while literary critics may say the almost-effortless victory in some dystopian YA books is unfeasible, they seem to forget that while grittiness is the big trend nowadays, fiction is just that – fiction. More to the point, people are scared of the world right now, young people especially, and if we can’t find escapism for that in fiction, what hope do we have? Society is what we make of it, and if we let ourselves believe that we lowly humans can turn bad things around, then maybe – just maybe – something might change. And if people are writing stories where that happens, surely that has to be a good thing.

Besides, life doesn’t follow its own rules sometimes. If World War Two never happened, how many self-important literary critics would call a battle like the Normandy landings unrealistic?

#dystopia #writing #the hunger games #thg #ya #ya community #donald trump #fascism #1984 #politics #essays #manchester #divergent

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Health chief urges NHS to learn from Gosport Hospital scandal

The NHS wants to face up to its failings and guarantee a scandal related to that on the Gosport War Memorial Hospital doesn’t occur once more, a number one well being chief has stated.

“Truly shocking” revelations that greater than 450 folks had their lives shortened after being prescribed highly effective painkillers on the hospital emerged on Wednesday.

A damning report discovered a further 200 sufferers had been “probably” equally administered with opioids between 1989 and 2000, with out medical justification.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt stated the Gosport Independent Panel had recognized a “catalogue of failings” by the authorities and apologised to the households who misplaced family members within the scandal.

Speaking on BBC Two’s Newsnight, Stephen Dorrell, chairman of the NHS Confederation, stated the well being service wanted to learn from its errors.

He stated: “The truth is, the system failed. We need to turn round, face that fact and ask ourselves what we can do to ensure we minimise the risk of it happening again.”

He added: “Because the well being service is a massively widespread organisation and does massively good work more often than not, there’s a bent for many who work within the healthcare system to suppose they did their greatest.

“Well, on this occasion, their best was nowhere near good enough.”

Members of the households of people that died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital outdoors Portsmouth Cathedral (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Mr Dorrell, a former well being secretary, stated he believed there had been enhancements over the previous 20 years, however harassed medical workers had a “collective” obligation to come ahead about considerations inside the healthcare system.

The inquiry, led by the previous bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones, discovered that whistleblowers and households had been ignored as they tried to increase considerations in regards to the administration of opioids on the hospital.

Nursing workers first raised considerations practically 30 years in the past however their fears had been “silenced” by administration, it revealed.

Mr Hunt informed MPs: “There was a list of failings by the native NHS, Hampshire Constabulary, the GMC (General Medical Council), the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council), the coroners and, as steward of the system, the Department of Health.

“Had the establishment listened when junior NHS staff spoke out, had the establishment listened when ordinary families raised concerns instead of treating them as troublemakers, many of those deaths would not have happened.”

Bishop James Jones delivers a press release outdoors Portsmouth Cathedral after the publication of the Gosport Independent Panel’s report (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Professor Gary Ford, chief government of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network, informed Newsnight the findings ought to immediate healthcare professionals to have a look at how they reply to complaints.

“Good teams have leaders… that set models where they are open and seek comment and criticism, and you look at patient complaints as an opportunity to improve your service, not as an opportunity to get away,” he stated.

Suzanne White, head of medical negligence at Leigh Day and affected person security campaigner, informed the programme she believed there was a “real cultural problem” inside the well being service, and added: “Lessons learnt are always the lines that come out after this, and I think if I was a family today hearing ‘lessons will be learned’, I’m not going to be convinced.”

Following the discharge of the report, family members of aged sufferers who died on the hospital branded the findings “chilling” and known as for legal prosecutions to be introduced.

Mr Hunt informed MPs: “The police, working with the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) and clinicians as necessary, will now carefully examine the new material in the report before determining their next steps and in particular whether criminal charges should now be brought.”

He stated any additional investigations must be carried out by organisations not concerned in earlier probes, suggesting that Hampshire Police ought to usher in one other drive.

The panel discovered that, over a 12-year interval as medical assistant, Dr Jane Barton was “responsible for the practice of prescribing which prevailed on the wards”.

But Mr Hunt questioned whether or not there had been an “institutional desire” to blame the occasions on a “rogue doctor” to defend reputations reasonably than handle systemic failings.

The panel stated the case of GP Harold Shipman, who was jailed in 2000 for murdering 15 sufferers, had “cast a long shadow” over occasions on the hospital.

The notion that Dr Barton could be a “lone wolf” working alone “rapidly took root”, the report stated.

Police didn’t pursue a “wider investigation” into what was happening on the hospital and as an alternative centered on the actions of Dr Barton.

Bridget Reeves, the granddaughter of 88-year-old Elsie Devine, stated in a press release on behalf of the households: “This has been sinister, calculated and people implicated should now face the rigour of the legal justice system.

“Accountability should take priority right here.

“These horrifying, shameful, unforgivable actions need to be disclosed in a criminal court for a jury to decide and only then can we put our loved ones to rest.”

The Gosport Independent Panel discovered that hospital administration, Hampshire Police, the CPS, GMC and NMC “all failed to act in ways that would have better protected patients and relatives”.

Its report additionally highlighted failings by healthcare organisations, native politicians and the coronial system.

It revealed “there was a disregard for human life and a culture of shortening lives of a large number of patients” on the Hampshire hospital.

The report added: “There was an institutionalised regime of prescribing and administering ‘dangerous doses’ of a hazardous combination of medication not clinically indicated or justified, with patients and relatives powerless in their relationship with professional staff.”

Concerns had been first raised by nurses in 1991 however these warnings went “unheeded”.

When family members later complained, from 1998, they had been “consistently let down by those in authority, both individuals and institutions”.

The report concludes: “The panel discovered proof of opioid use with out applicable medical indication in 456 sufferers.

“The panel concludes that, taking into consideration lacking information, there have been most likely not less than one other 200 sufferers equally affected however whose medical notes weren’t discovered.

“The panel’s analysis therefore demonstrates that the lives of over 450 people were shortened as a direct result of the pattern of prescribing and administering opioids that had become the norm at the hospital, and that probably at least another 200 patients were similarly affected.”

In 2010, the GMC dominated that Dr Barton, who has since retired, was responsible of a number of situations {of professional} misconduct relating to 12 sufferers who died on the hospital.

Dr Jane Barton was discovered responsible of great skilled misconduct by a GMC Fitness to Practise Panel in 2010 (Chris Ison/PA)

Several paperwork reviewed by the panel referred to the Shipman case.

However the Rt Rev Jones stated occasions on the Gosport War Memorial Hospital had been distinct, as a result of they confirmed a “failure of the institution”.

Nurses on the ward weren’t answerable for the follow however did administer the medication, together with through syringe drivers, and failed to problem prescribing, the panel stated.

Consultants, although circuitously concerned in treating sufferers on the ward, “were aware” of how medication had been administered however “did not intervene to stop the practice”.

Mr Hunt additionally questioned why consultants or nurses didn’t act to cease these concerned.

He added: “Was there an institutional desire to blame the issues on one rogue doctor rather than examine systemic failings that prevented issues being picked up and dealt with quickly driven, as this report suggests it may have been, by a desire to protect organisational reputations?”

Hampshire Police stated it will be taking “time to properly digest the significance of what has been revealed”.

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