Word: brunton
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...says, "It was too good a deal to pass up - they'll think of something to do with it." While they figure out what to do with their new toy, the guys at Google can get on with the urgent business of naming it: Bloogle? Blooger? GooBlog? - By Michael Brunton...
Meanwhile, outside the ward where Paddy Brunton died, work has begun on a new hospital wing. It is due to open in 2004--two years before the next general election must be called...
Just a few kilometers from central London - home to the spectacular new Tate Modern gallery, million-dollar 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...
...Paddy Brunton died April 15 after six weeks in such conditions. The doctors and nurses who looked after him "worked heroically," says his son Paul, "but the system was broken. Everything about the place was dispiriting. The right hand never knew what the left hand was doing. I think he, anyone, has the right to expect better in his last days...