She pleaded over and over to be fed -- but doctors at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital (U.K.) paid no attention. And they proceded to starve Olive Nockels to death.
Below is an excerpt from the Times Online (U.K.) story:
...Olive Nockels, 91, a former school matron, died after surviving for nearly a month on a subcutaneous drip that delivered only a quarter of the calorie intake specified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a short-term starvation diet. Even that was stopped for four days when the hospital claimed that she was suffering from excess fluid.
Relatives told the inquest that doctors and the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital had no interest in treating Mrs Nockels after she was admitted in September 2003. Her grandson, Christopher West, told William Armstrong, the Coroner, at the inquest in Norwich: “The only thing that was said most of the time, as the weeks went on, was that she hadn’t died yet. “Immediately after her admission it became clear it was their intention not to treat her.”
Mr West, 34, obtained a High Court ex parte injunction on October 6, 2003, forcing doctors to reinstate artificial nutrition and hydration, but the next day Mr Justice Forbes varied the order on an application by David Maisey, a consultant...
