So the media is choosing to focus on this case. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12863901/Nurse-healthcare-worker-illegally-drugged-patients-Blackpool-stroke-ward-amusements-jailed-total-ten-years-two-months.html
Not denying the appalling evil behavior of the staff involved but the fact the media are choosing to splash coverage makes me think the midazolam deaths are going to be laid at the feet of nursing staff to keep doctors hands clean? This story sets a narrative of nurses drugging patients for a quiet life. The midazolam scandal is beginning to gain attention so it’s going to have to spun in some way to protect the PTBs and what better way than for doctors to blame the clinical judgment of subordinate nurses for patient deaths???
A schedule 4 medication like Midazolam can not be given unless ordered by a licensed physician or maybe a nurse practitioner who is working under a licensed physician. In my opinion, Physicians, Nurses and Pharmacists will not escape potential liability.
It’s often written up as a sort of standing script in the NHS (well in hospitals that my OH and other family worked in) and I also know this happened with my dad when he was seriously ill, it was done because often when some meds of this nature are needed a doc couldn’t be found to sign off the script
I’m so sorry this happened to your father, is he ok?
Thanks 🙏🏻 no sadly he died not long after but he had many health problems so it wasn’t the meds
Condolences friend.