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Parents' tribute to 'wonderful' Rachel Rayner

By Hugh Fort
May 24, 2012

The parents of Rachel Rayner have paid tribute to their ‘courageous’ daughter after last week’s inquest.

Adrian Rayner said: “We felt we had to bring certain issues to light; we could not ignore them.

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“Firstly it would have been a betrayal of [Rachel]to remain silent, and secondly it was to be hoped that lessons could be learned that might assist other sufferers.

“My wife and I could not be more proud of Rachel, who was multi-talented and beautiful. In spite of her crippling illness, she had won several offers to read history of art at university.

“She was… intellectually and socially gifted but her illness rendered her incapable of seeing this in herself, and she suffered terribly with what appeared to be the slightest of emotional setbacks.

“More than 300 people battled through two feet of snow to attend her funeral in December 2010, and her contemporaries were queuing up to deliver eulogies…

“No one in the coroner’s court can begin to comprehend the enormity of the loss and devastation we feel as a result of the futile and horribly premature death of such a loving, wonderful daughter.”

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This is so sad, no parent expects their child to go before them- especially not so young. I agree that the mental health services are sadly as idiotic as the GMCs modern ethics. As in there are no ethics any longer. Patients these days are treated like machines in need of tuning up or fixing, rather than the humans they are; desperately primarily in need of some human compassion & support. Doctors treat patients appallingly, they provide no support & only a means to obtain a treatment that is lawful/cheap. It's disgusting that the so called doctor is allowed to get away with blaming their teen patients condition, to excuse the fact they let this poor young woman be failed by the very services charged with providing care. My opinion of the medical establishment could not get any lower. This commencing by the fact I have yet to meet a GP who will even admit that unborn children are not eggs, but fully formed people. But now more than ever I definitely view doctors as just the bunch of well paid con men/women they seem to be.