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'HIV bungle' nightmare
'HIV bungle' nightmare ^ | 12/0/09 | STEFANIE COHEN and ISABEL VINCENT

Posted on 12/22/2009 8:20:56 AM PST by DogBarkTree

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To: Doc Savage

I dunno about all your fancy ‘science’...According to my sources, AIDS was created by the government to kill black people...


21 posted on 12/22/2009 9:19:54 AM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: WestwardHo
You go to another hospital, or the health department and get retested.

To put this in perspective, will national healthcare make this kind of thing better or worse?

22 posted on 12/22/2009 9:28:56 AM PST by D Rider (Pull the pin, toss it in.)
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To: FreeLuna

Yes Really!

Most Health-Care today is little more than an endless sequence of tests which have no action level predetermined what so ever.

As for keeping people alive I would question that to the point of keeping people strung out on drugs with no kind of clue what so ever to curing the root cause of the problem.

Like I said........It’s a Business and all they want is Dollars. Just like this Health Bill being rammed down the publics throat. The Benefits (of which will be very few) don’t kick in until 4 years later.

The taxes kick in as soon as OBOZO signs the paper!


23 posted on 12/22/2009 9:29:36 AM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: D Rider

My husband and I were in a head-on collision in Ireland.
God was good, and we were spared major injuries, and we survived the major impact of airbags. But we experienced National Free Healthcare firsthand.
We were not checked out at the crash site. (Our Renault met with a truck ferrying a car.)
We walked to the ambulance and were not provided any restaints or support..no seatbelts, necks, ribs, great unkowns...
We were never x-rayed or subjected to the usual routine required at a US emergency room. We did not see a doctor, but were “seen” (note: not examined) by young persons, qualifications unknown. The whole process took less than an hour.
There was the possibility of spinal injury, cardiac tampenade, broken ribs, collapsed lung, etc. that could have led to a major episode sometime after leaving the emergency room. Fortunately, both of us have a medical background and were pretty sure we were OK, aside from being very sore, etc.
I’m not sure a NHS second opinion would have been fruitful.
And then, ignorance is bliss! No exams, no tests, no x-rays, no news is good news!
We know from living in Germany, and our contact with socialized medicine that our experience is more typical than not.


24 posted on 12/22/2009 10:12:16 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: DogBarkTree
But almost three weeks later, the hospital called to say she was perfectly healthy.

That sounds like the time for the confimatory Western Blot test to come back negative at the far end of the usual time span. The nurse was negligent.

25 posted on 12/22/2009 2:05:40 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: DogBarkTree

There should be extensive jail time for all that were responsible for this. - Incompetence is a good reason to terminate an employee, but it isn’t an adequate excuse to avoid the consequences.


26 posted on 12/22/2009 4:40:03 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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