Among the "dehumanising" examples of care being provided was a case where a male care home patient was told to go to the toilet in his incontinence pad despite asking someone to help him use a toilet.

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That's why when you were outside the headmaster's office you got a dry throat, butterflies in the tummy, and you needed to go to the toilet!

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Defence lawyers said a post-mortem examination showed Ms Steenkamp had an empty bladder consistent with someone getting up to go to the toilet, as detailed in Mr Pistorius's narrative.

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Philip Whiteman, fled St Nicholas Hospital, in Gosforth, on Wednesday morning when he asked to go to the toilet as he was being escorted.

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It's really very consonant with what used to be done in sort of Victorian and post-Victorian England and Germany and in the United States, which was the idea that children have to be sort of trained to go to the toilet, and the sooner it's done, the better the training and the more efficient it will be, and that was kind of the practice.

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