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Living with DyingArrow
Age 51-60
Interview 30  

Interview 30

Age at Interview: 58
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 56
Background: Industrial pipe fitter (retired), married, 2 childrena
Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2001, followed by a total colectomy (removal of the large intestine) 2002. Secondary tumours found in the liver in 2002, treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

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A shortage of nurses led to insufficient care at times.

 



Now whether it's numbers [of staff] I don't know, but I've found that the waiting period for some innocuous things like a bed pan or something like that people have got themselves in such a state about a simple thing like that because they were bedridden and things like that. 

And I don't know, I think it needs doing, it needs to be geed up somehow, the treatment of the nursing staff and the general staff to the patient like you know, but obviously you get, you get the exception to the rule and you get some wonderful, wonderful nurses that are running around doing above and beyond their duty but I find generally speaking that there all stretched. There's no question about that like.
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