Hospitals are dangerous and dirty places, says GP

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A leading north London GP has criticised hospitals as "dangerous and dirty places" where the sick should only be treated as a last resort. Paddy Glackin, who heads a doctors' group representing 250,000 patients, told the Standard many hospitals are impersonal where old people beg not to be sent for treatment. He said: "Hospitals are dangerous and dirty places on the whole. It's well established and the figures are there that many people die in hospitals not just because they are ill but because they actually get ill in hospital. "The bugs that are running around in hospitals are incredibly dangerous." Dr Glackin is a GP in Islington but also chairman of the Camden Local Medical Committee, a body representing about 400 doctors in the borough.