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Post by Big Lin on Sept 7, 2021 23:08:25 GMT
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Post by deyana on Sept 13, 2021 19:01:42 GMT
Seems that medical care is lacking in many places and countries. We don't have enough doctors here to go around.
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Post by Big Lin on Sept 13, 2021 21:04:25 GMT
Sadly, this is all too common. Leaving aside downright psychos like Harold Shipman and Beverley Allit, we've had the unnecessary deaths in Liverpool, Bristol, Shropshire and Mid-Staffordshire - all caused by medical incompetence.
And to be honest I've had personal experience of medical failures - I nearly died giving birth to my eldest child and if it wasn't for the midwife being a woman of sense I probably would have died.
And Mike's had more than his share - some years back he nearly lost a foot and he's recently had two hilarious (in a way) phone contacts - one a call, the other a text.
The phone call was from a dietician who told him to give up bread, rice, pasta and potatoes. At the time he had contacted the surgery trying to PUT ON weight because he's underweight - and was even more underweight when he contact them.
The second was a text from the surgery inviting him in for a breast scan!
You couldn't make it up, could you?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2021 9:22:26 GMT
I've had positive experiences of NHS still think we are very lucky in this country and its something we should be proud of
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Post by Big Lin on Sept 16, 2021 22:01:27 GMT
Mike and I have had positive experiences too but we've both had far more negative ones.
Basically we've found that the staff are incompetent, uncaring, and lazy.
I've seen them laughing when a mentally ill woman was self-harming; I've seen them ignore a stab victim who was bleeding copiously on the floor of the hospital.
And the amount of minor mistakes they make are a disgrace.
But private medicine is even worse; they are just money-mad crooks. My brother used to swear by private medicine until he had an attack of acute appendicitis and was rushed to hospital. To his amazement he found that the standard of medical care in the NHS was BETTER than in the private sector.
Read Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis; he coined the term iatrogenesis to describe illnesses and/or injuries CAUSED by medical treatment.
Raad Guylaine Lanctot, The Medical Mafia.
Read Vernon Coleman, How To Stop Your Doctor Killing You.
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