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...million-dollar apartments that reflect the prosperous, optimistic side of Tony Blair's Britain, Paddy Brunton spent his final days in a rather different country. Brunton, 80, a former BBC electrician, developed blood clots in his heart and lungs in February. After an eight-hour wait for a bed, he was admitted to a 20-patient ward at the Whittington Hospital in north London, one of the top 40 in Britain...
...bleeds to death. Or suffocating a rival with a clear plastic bag over his head while a henchman named El Gordo (the Fat Man) bounces on his chest. But perhaps Ramon's favorite ritual is carne asada--barbecue--executing entire families and tossing their corpses on a bed of flaming tires, as he and his goons celebrate with tequila and cocaine...
...apartments and thronged restaurants that reflect the prosperous, optimistic side of Tony Blair's Britain - Paddy Brunton spent his final days in a rather different country. Brunton, 80, a former bbc electrician, developed blood clots in his heart and lungs in February. After an eight-hour wait for a bed, he found himself in a 20-patient ward at the Whittington Hospital in north London...
...Four nurses were supposed to be on duty, but because of staff shortages there were often only two. Visitors found Brunton several times lying in his own excrement. Harried staffers often failed to put on his glasses or hearing aid or dentures, so he spent hours in bed cut off from the world. He got bedsores. For two days in March, when outside temperatures were just above freezing, the central heating was turned off for repairs and his own temperature plummeted alarmingly. His children were told the hospital's warming suit was already in use, so Brunton was simply wrapped...
...READING HABITS I read every day, and I always read every night in bed - for 30 or 40 minutes at the least. I read the newspapers in the morning. We read the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today and the Washington Times. I see the Dallas Morning News, which comes over to the West Wing...