I love the NHS. It is such a rich source of schadenfreude. Every day it provides fresh evidence that government-run health care stinks. Per Reuters:
A patient was told there was no reason why he couldn’t have surgery in a hospital, despite the smell caused by a dead rodent trapped in the building’s ceiling.
Yep. You read that right. There was a decomposing rodent in the ceiling and the people running the hospital basically told the patient to quit bitching and get on the operating table. The patient declined to do so:
Despite being told that the trust’s infection control experts had stated that Mr Cowper was not being exposed to an infection risk, he decided not to proceed with the operation.
Talk about your temperamental patients! Next he’ll be asking the NHS to meet basic hygiene standards. And who knows how long it will take to get the procedure rescheduled:
Cowper, 19, told the Sun newspaper he had waited 11 months for the operation.
I’m betting that wait will seem like the blink of an eye compared to the time it takes him to get back to the front of the line again.
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At least he didn’t die - unlike the more than 100,000 who die each year from the filthy conditions in US hospitals.
Posted 08 Mar 2008 at 1:06 pm ¶An eleven month wait, wasting his young life hobbling around on crutches, for this 19 year old teenager to be faced with the stench of a decomposing rat:
government health care in a nutshell.
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