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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-345/
- Published: 2021-04-17T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-17T05:41:28.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Health, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

> An elderly man feels so let down by the scattershot state of his in-home care, he wants to give back the Queen’s Service Medal he once received for services to health.  
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> Twice a day Eric Clarke, 87, opens the front door of his Feilding home to carers. They see him at his most vulnerable, as the treatment he needs is intimate.  
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> But too often they are strangers, and too often they are careless, leaving Clarke anxious, angry and humiliated, and twice in need of an ambulance.  
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> Clarke, who received a Queen’s Service Medal for services to Wellington ambulance in 1997, now has such little faith in the health sector he wants to return it to the steps of Parliament.

[Read the full article here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300278965/retiree-abandoned-by-health-provider-wants-to-return-queens-service-medal?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*