Just when you think Britain’s socialized medical system can’t get any worse, it does. The Mail Online reports the following:
A vulnerable patient starved to death in an NHS hospital after 26 days without proper nourishment.
How, you ask, is that possible, even at an NHS facility?
Martin Ryan, 43, had suffered a stroke which left him unable to swallow. But a ‘total breakdown in communication’ meant he was never fitted with a feeding tube.
This is just one case among many that are being investigated by a health watchdog group. Here are a couple of others:
Emma Kemp, 26, was denied cancer treatment that could have saved her life, while 30-year-old Mark Cannon died two months after being admitted to hospital with a broken leg.
Mr. Ryan was from Richmond, where I spent part of my vacation last year. It’s a nice little town, full of lovely people who deserve better than this.
We in the U.S. also deserve better. And yet many of our leaders want to give us “free” health care too. No thanks.
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These sorts of things happen in America all the time. I don’t need to provide any evidence or examples. It’s an absolute matter of record!
Posted 09 Jan 2009 at 5:21 pm ¶OK, for the record, the NHS errors are lamentable (and they are not ‘many’ - there are these three over several years and they all involve people with severe learning disabilities that unfortunately contributed to the errors). Now I’m not going to bother posting evidence that the medical error and denial of care rates in the US are much higher - you know that. And David, this is my last comment, as you’re clearly only interested in infantile posturing. Let me know if you want intelligent lifeforms here and I’ll return.
Posted 10 Jan 2009 at 4:37 pm ¶It goes without saying, but the real reason Marc Brown doesn’t post any evidence that medical error and denial of care rates are higher in the U.S. is because there is no evidence, because they’re not higher. He just hopes we’ll take his word for it by claiming repeatedly that it’s a “matter of record.” Now that’s infantile posturing.
Oh, and the reason I posted that Marx Brown comment is because it’s more effective to mock willfully ignorant fools than it is to try to reason with them.
Posted 11 Jan 2009 at 11:51 am ¶Yeah, because our extremely expensive health system that shuns anyone without $1,000,000 in networth or thousands of dollars to pay for a check up has NEVER been neglectful. Right?
Yeah, right. That’s why I’m left with cervical cancer to die while being uninsured.
There are classes in this country other than the rich, son.
Posted 23 Apr 2009 at 5:08 am ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
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