11-year-old Swedish girl denied ambulance

The Local ^ | 6/24/11 | Staff

[Nachum]

After sustaining an open chest wound of 10cm long while trimming her horse’s mane, Sweden’s emergency response services refused to send an ambulance, suggesting the 11-year-old girl take aspirin instead. (Snip) The resulting gash to her ribs measured 10cm long, and according to the girl’s mother, was substantially open, reported Sweden’s national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD). The mother phoned SOS Alarm, the government-backed primary emergency response service, and described the child as shaking because she was in so much pain. She requested an ambulance because she did not have immediate access to a car. The responding nurse refused the dispatch.

[Nachum]

See? That’s what happen in Obamacare when you don’t offer a bribe.

[Silentgypsy]

Where do they get these nurses?

[GeronL]

death panels? who needs death panels when Nurse Ratchet is on the phone line?

[glorgau]

Coach said “just walk it off”.

[darkwing104]

This is what Democrats have planned for all Americans.

[Cowman]

Under a private system you would have the recourse of taking legal action against the nurse that declined treatment. Under a nationalized system the nurse is a government employee engaged in performing a government function so suing them for negligence would be suing the government for negligence and therefore would not be allowed. Just something to think about.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

suggesting the 11-year-old girl take aspirin instead.

What type of nutcase tells a person with a bleeding wound to take a blood thinner?

[anonsquared]

I’m sure if she had said she was Muslim they would have dispatched one in the blink of an eye.

[C210N]

This makes total sense. Clearly, medical care has to be withheld from elderly, as the cost-benefit argues that money better spent on younger patients. BUT, as according to the wise teachings of Imam Berman, society has NOT YET invested much resources into this 11 year old. After weighing the costs of Junior high, High school, college versus 10 cm open wound treatment, its just better for society that she be given blood thinners (quickens the result).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Someday, the entire world will be run by bureaucrats.

Wheee!

[EQAndyBuzz]

Rub some dirt n it. Oh wait, that’s for dinner.

[353FMG]

Put some ice on it.

[Little Bill]

Absolutely, last time I got a 2 inch wound I bled like a stuck pig and spent a week in the hospital.

[aposiopetic]

Is this typical?

[YHAOS]

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

[YHAOS]

"This is what Democrats have planned for all Americans."

Well . . . not exactly all Americans.

[sten]

right

those that didn’t vote for der leader will find their phone services immediately disconnected in mid-call

i’m fairly certain if that was my daughter, the operator would be wondering how she got to the middle of nowhere... how she got the 10 cm gash in her chest... and where her cell phone was

[FormerACLUmember]

The definition of insanity:

You turn your healthcare over the the very same people who run the IRS and the Motor Vehicle bureau.

(Actually the very first thing Obama and the democrat party did was to exempt themselves from the ObamaCare they impoped involutarily on the rest of us. The same principle applies in Sweden and worldwide to the ruling socialist d-bag regimes)

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Well . . . not exactly all Americans.

Some are more equal than others.