Too often, complaints about the treatment of people facing homelessness, and indeed any service users, are met with grumbles about cost.
Too often, complaints about the housing crisis are dismissed as plaintive mewlings of the metropolitan moneyed class, disgruntled at their state.
Too often, complaints of police rough treatment in such instances are dismissed for lack of evidence, and collusion by officers in producing a version that exonerates them – as happened immediately after Tomlinson's death.
He said that "complacency in the system has meant that all too often patient complaints have been ignored".
Everybody knows what the problems are: there are pockets within which a culture of poor care is allowed to flourish; a system of regulation proved unfit for purpose; and a complaints procedure that all too often views the complaint as a problem to manage, rather than an opportunity from which to learn.
She said doctors have too often dismissed the complaints, writing off the memory lapses and muscle pain, in particular, as a normal sign of getting older.
Too often, the patient complaints system is treated as a process, in an attempt to deflect criticism rather than confront problems.
DR. MICHAEL MYERS, an internist in upstate New York, has all too often heard the complaints about expensive prescription drugs from elderly patients living on fixed incomes.
"People who spoke with us reported that too often, these informal complaints are avoided, 'swept under the carpet' or referred elsewhere".
But hearing the "American" complaint too often can mar an otherwise happy vacation, and arguing with the complainers can only make things worse Much as I'd like to see the president use his bully pulpit to coin a new word, I'm guessing this is a political nonstarter.
