Reflections of a stormy petrel

Christopher Reeve died because, 1) he got a pressure wound from sitting in one place, and, 2) it was left uncured long enough to get infected, and infected enough to slip into a coma.

I know one or two things about tetraplegy and its long-term care. I am simply astonished to hear this. Reeve, thanks to his movie career, was a rich man. He was surrounded by his family. He should have been getting top quality care. You do not get pressure sores if you are receiving regular attention, being moved, washed and receiving physiotherapy to keep your limbs from atrophying. This simply should not have happened. Pressure sores are a sure sign of bad or nonexistent care, the symptom of bad hospitals or of poor people allowed to die by incompetent carers. Something is very wrong about this story.