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Man told to "walk off pain" after shooting
Reuters ^ | August 16, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 08/17/2007 8:14:49 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African man shot three weeks ago was told to "walk the pain off" and is still trying to persuade hospitals to remove the bullet lodged in his side, a newspaper said Thursday. Three Johannesburg hospitals refused to remove the bullet for security guard Phillip Mashiane, 38, who was shot during a burglary at the property of South Africa's ambassador to the United Nations, the Star newspaper said.

snip Doctors at a third hospital said it could not remove the bullet because Mashiane had started treatment elsewhere.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: government; manup; rubsomedirtonit; socialism; socializedmedicine; universalhealthcare
Socialist run-around.

Anybody surprised?

1 posted on 08/17/2007 8:14:50 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: Turret Gunner A20
It actually works. The pain will eventually go away.
2 posted on 08/17/2007 8:16:25 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: BallyBill
It actually works. The pain will eventually go away.

Yeah, if he dies...

3 posted on 08/17/2007 8:17:27 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Michael Moore and $inator Hilldebea$t will never discuss realities like this when they go orgasmic about the “virtues” of Socialized Medicine.


4 posted on 08/17/2007 8:19:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Donate to Vets For Freedom: http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

yeah...too bad the guy doesn’t live in Cuba


5 posted on 08/17/2007 8:20:28 AM PDT by woollyone (whyquit.com ...if you think you can't quit, you're simply not informed yet.)
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To: woollyone

Rub some Scotch on it.


6 posted on 08/17/2007 8:23:56 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Rub some dirt on it.


7 posted on 08/17/2007 8:27:19 AM PDT by rangerX (Sua Sponte)
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To: madison10; BallyBill
As the Stoic Seneca is often quoted, “Scorn pain: either it will go away, or you will.”
8 posted on 08/17/2007 8:29:14 AM PDT by dighton
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Socialist Medicine..Like the Brits have, who actually yanked a large part of one of their hospitals budgets, because they were actually treating paitients in a timely manner, rather than forcing them to wait for weeks to be treated, so that the hospital would have no better record that otherts socialist, let them suffer and die, hospitals in the UK.

Like what Comrade Hillary wants to do here.


9 posted on 08/17/2007 8:32:32 AM PDT by DGHoodini
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To: Turret Gunner A20

He went for a second opinion and that doctor told him to “keep a stiff upper lip”.


10 posted on 08/17/2007 8:33:08 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

My old football coach is now a Doctor in South Africa?


11 posted on 08/17/2007 8:34:09 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Put some ice on it.


12 posted on 08/17/2007 8:37:52 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Oh the joys of working for the UN!


13 posted on 08/17/2007 8:42:24 AM PDT by Never2baCrat (I used to be modest, now I'm perfect!)
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To: dighton; madison10; BallyBill
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

-- Some Klingon Friedrich Nietzsche

14 posted on 08/17/2007 8:43:40 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882541/posts


15 posted on 08/17/2007 8:45:01 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: martin_fierro

“...That which does not kill us makes us stronger...”

— Some Klingon Friedrich Nietzsche

Oscar Manhiem - “Runaway Train”


16 posted on 08/17/2007 11:04:37 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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To: Turret Gunner A20
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Walk it off, Nancy-boy! Get off your pity-pot and act like a man!
17 posted on 08/17/2007 1:44:15 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Fred Thompson '08)
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