Clearly recovered from previous visits to the other Pointless show, I made these two related complaints this morning. I’ll let you see the response to my, no doubt, ‘pedantry’.
Reporting Scotland – 6.30pm
Transmission date
21/01/2019
Complaint category
Factual error or inaccuracy
Contacted us before
No
Complaint title
Hospital deaths 2
Complaint description
In a report on deaths at the QEU Hospital, Jackie Bird said: ‘[T]he deaths of two patients from a rare fungal infection.’ This is inaccurate. We knew from the BBC website the same day: ‘The health board said one of the patients was elderly and had died from ‘an unrelated cause’. The factors contributing to the death of the other patient are being investigated.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-46953707 So in neither case did the patient die ‘from’ a rare fungal infection. One clearly died from ‘an unrelated cause’ and the other’s death was still being investigated.
Reporting Scotland – 6.30pm
Transmission date
22/01/2019
Complaint category
Factual error or inaccuracy
Contacted us before
No
Complaint title
Hospital deaths
Complaint description
With regard to deaths at the QEU Hospital in Glasgow, Lisa Summers said: ‘It became clear that two patients had died as a result of this particular infection.’ This is patently untrue. In one case, the patient absolutely did not die as ‘a result of’ the infection’ but because of ‘an unrelated cause’. In the other case it was as, Lisa put it later ‘contributory’. The infection was found in the blood stream of the second patient but clearly this death was also not ‘as a result of’ the infection. We know the actual facts from the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-46953707
Draw the expression on my face?
Talking-up Scotland 
I’m agog at the Herald front page today that notes that ‘scandal grows’ and seems to now be targeting Jeane Freeman for having the audacity to refuse to buckle and say that ‘of course this scandalous tragedy is my fault and the fault of the SMP Government’
Instead, she has the temerity to quote statistics!
Why on earth personal tragedies like this are swallowed whole and regurgitated for political troughers continues to outrage me.
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a case of a doo doo doo da , i would get the police but they seem to be trying to get someone else in the doo da at the moment
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