In 1991, Dr. Robin Fox, then editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, visited the Home for Dying Destitute in Calcutta and described the medical care the patients received as "haphazard". Dr. Fox criticised Teresa claiming that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, putting curable patients at risk.
Fox conceded that the regimen he observed included cleanliness, the tending of wounds and sores, and kindness, but he noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking". The formulary at the facility Fox visited lacked strong analgesics which he felt clearly separated Mother Teresa's approach from the hospice movement. Fox also wrote that needles were rinsed with warm water, which left them inadequately sterilized, and the facility did not isolate patients with tuberculosis.
Then he went back to his comfortable home, and Theresa and nuns were left to cope on their own. If he was so concerned, why didn't he do something?
2007-02-13 02:22:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It's easy to criticize. He never lifted a finger or helped that dying people. Is he a hypocrite?
2007-02-13 02:24:13 · update #1
I guess in a way he was. He could have helped out. Were the pain killers there to be used or not? Ya can't use what's not there. And why didn't he supply them with things if it was such a concern. Chances are money was an issue and he didn't want to part with any of his. So yes. I guess he was.
2007-02-13 02:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by Me2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was doing his job. Which was to evaluate the nightmarish conditions of Mother Teresa's pain factory. He didn't have a responsibility to help the 'patients'. Just like the nuns didn't have a responsibility to ease their suffering.
If anyone was a hypocrite it was Teresa, as she raised Hundreds of Millions of dollars and couldn't be bothered to stock her pain factories with analgesics.
2007-02-13 02:30:21 · answer #2 · answered by tain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in trouble-free terms Allah (swt) knows who's a hypocrite and who isn't. He knows what's in our hearts. also, its no longer our interest to judge one yet another on that, in trouble-free terms propose. How can someone who calls others hypocrites be so particular that he's free from hypocrisy himself? Salaams
2016-12-04 03:13:11 · answer #3 · answered by marconi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know that he didn't do anything?
2007-02-13 02:25:57 · answer #4 · answered by Laura H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋