British Doctors 'deny elderly treatments'

The BBC reports:

Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, according to a study.

Researchers writing in the Quality and Safety in Health Care journal said it demonstrated doctors in the NHS were guilty of ageism.

The University College London team questioned 90 GPs and consultants about the treatment of 72 patients aged 45 to 92 with angina problems.

They found nearly half of the doctors treated the over-65s differently.

Some 46% of GPs and elderly care doctors, known as gerontologists, and 48% of cardiologists acted in this way.

The compassion of socialist medicine.