Hey, tools cost money you know.
Posted on 01/28/2008 7:44:00 AM PST by NCDragon
An 11-year-old boy from Britain, who was deaf for nearly 10 years, was suddenly cured when a thick piece of cotton popped out of his ear, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two-years-old.
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Over the next nine years, he struggled to live a normal life as a young boy — but everything changed when he felt a sudden pop in his right ear while playing a game of pool with friends.
He put his finger in his ear and pulled out a tip of a cotton wool bud that had been wedged in his ear since he was a toddler.
"It was just incredible — his hearing returned to normal in an instant," Barten's dad said.
"I had always suspected Jerome had stuck something in his ear when he was little and that was causing the problem. But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it."
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Hey, tools cost money you know.
You don’t outgrow popcycle sticks either, but try telling that to a doctor who isn’t fit to examine a dog.
Government run healthcare - All the compassion of the IRS, all the efficiency of the Postal Service, at Pentagon prices.
I had wax cleaned out of my ear when I was a kid. I wonder why the specialists in the UK can’t. Of course, it did require a bit of “high tech” equipment: a thing that shoots a stream of water. They could at least try to improvise with a water gun, if they can afford it.
Tommy can you hear me?
That is EXACTLY why the story was reported (and will be told, and told, and told)
I call 100% BS on this story.
True.
And to be fair, socialized medicine is only half-bad...
"Doctors AND hearing specialists"?
Quite a crack team there
(If they thought it was ear wax, WHY didn't they clean that out?)
That is awful!
That’s the price of free health care
PING for the wonder of socialized medicine!
The security people had all cleared the area so I just wandered on into that area. The thrust blew the fence over and blew the cotton deep into my ear. It was there for two years, despite several Dr. visits. (my poor mother)
Finally, it got infected and an ear Dr. found the cotton or tissue paper and removed it. I had super hearing in that ear for a week. I could hear a whisper from a block away. The rustle of someone's clothing across the room sounded like crumpling newspaper, inches away. I hated being deaf in one ear but the jet car was sure cool.
I suppose that now-a-days, one whould just sue the dragstrip for one's own foolishness.
Wow, that is terrible to have to wait months to even see a doctor, let alone get surgery. We must stop Hillarycare.
It’s not uncommon at all to look into a child’s ear and be prevented from seeing the eardrum by a buildup of wax. The standard response is to put in some drops that help dissolve wax, wait a short while then rinse out the ear using an ear syringe and warm water. Repeat as necessary until you can actually see the ear drum.
I have to wonder if there’s not more to this story than we’re being told.
I had a dog once.
‘But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it.”
Give the doc a break. Maybe he was looking in the wrong ear. It’s tough to teach a highly educated person right from left!
a friend’s daughter stuck a bean way up her nose when she was little and they thought she was mentally ill because all she did was pick her nose! LOL
They finally pulled the bean out and she went on to be ‘normal’ :|
Okay, here’s a whacked thought: many physicians in Britain are Muslim. Not saying this one was. But it made me think, in light of such seemingly lazy care, about motivating factors.
If, as a Muslim physician you had an agenda or calling—which we have seen proved is not impossible to imagine—for world domination, why would you exert yourself in the treatment of infidels? If no morality or Hippocratic Oath stood in your way, why not give the merest of consideration to a debilitating but not dire health issue? It’s not like they’re getting rich off of universal heath care payments. Why bother?
In the U.S., even if your doctor is an avowed misanthropist, they’re still motivated by cool cash. I’d trust that over underpaid and overworked socialized MDs.
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