Let me help. The answers are right here:
Posted on 02/14/2009 8:14:42 PM PST by Reaganesque
Thank you for my new tag line.
Socialized medicine/young organ donor ping...
Let me help. The answers are right here:
I forgot about lawsuits. That is why this will never work in America thankfully. See and we all hate trial lawyers...I don’t anymore...lol.
Your right. Error and neglect do happen here in our system. But the error and neglect evidenced in the story were systemic. The doctors didn’t do the MRI because they thought it was unnecesary, they were reluctant to schedule her for the scan because MRIs are very expensive, particularly in the UK, and they were sure she would be turned down. And even if she had been scheduled for the MRI, she would have had to wait for months if not a year or two. That wouldn’t have helped her either.
There are thousands of MRI machines in the US. In the UK, they have fewer than 100. If I remember correctly, they have fewer than 50. And its all because they have been deemed by NHS as “too expensive.” So, in the UK not only do they have doctors and nurses who make mistakes (they’re only human, after all), but in addition, they have a system that places the patient’s life and possible treatment on a scale of affordability and if you come out on the wrong end of that evaluation, you’re dead.
Not only that but when Princess Di had her accident in France, the paramedics were on the scene fairly quickly but didn’t get Di to the hospital until more than 90 minutes later. Why? Because the ambulance couldn’t just take her to the nearest hospital. In the French health-care system at the time, hospitals, by law, specialized in certain treatments. It took them 90 plus minutes for them to find which hospital they were supposed to take her to and that one happened to be far from where the crash was. While bureaucrats dithered, Princess Diana died.
We certainly can do better. WE can do better; not the government. See also post #46.
“... what you believe ...”
If you think I believe that the govt should determine what medical procedures my doctor must “withhold” from me in the way of treatment .. you are sadly mistaken.
I guess I should have put a [/s] sign at the end to denote my statement was sarcasm.
However, THE STIUMLUS DOES STATE THAT THE GOVT WILL MAKE THE DECISION OF WHETHER YOU ARE ENTITLED TO ANY MEDICAL PROCEDURE AFTER A CERTAIN AGE. That is a horrible idea. That IS socialized medicine.
Since the liberals are for abortion (killing babies in the womb) and euthanasia (withholding treatment from old people) I can’t figure out who the “they” are who “are striving to have people live forever”.
Prayers for Jenna and family.
Sorry I misunderstood your post. Thank you for setting me straight. Have a great weekend!
Amazing. Your story is very similar to Aris’ (my buddy at work) Only, he wasn’t quite so lucky, and his infection set in faster. He sustained a head injury and some internal injuries, so he was still in the hospital when the infection set in. He had the leg amputated before he ever left. It was the same story though. Doctors told him he was lucky to be alive, even without the leg. Sometimes these infections happen—just his bad luck. there was nothing they could have done to prevent it. Everything was done correctly.
I am glad that your situation turned out better than his.
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