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Parents' fury as teenage daughter dies just days after doctors sent her home and 'told her to take paracetamol'

1 posted on 07/21/2010 10:52:38 AM PDT by george76
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Coming soon to your neighborhood...


2 posted on 07/21/2010 10:54:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Soapbox & Ballot Box or Ammo Box.)
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Were this my child the life expectancy of the doctors who did this would be measured in hours.


3 posted on 07/21/2010 10:55:13 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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Hey, another win for socialized medicine. Its a wonder they wasted all that treatment on her, they could have just as easily killed right off and saved a fortune. Sick people suck (I believe Mr. Skittles said that). Blue pill or red pill?


4 posted on 07/21/2010 10:55:13 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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That’s outrageous that they sent her home. I was septic after my appendix ruptured many years ago and was sent home, too, because I was misdiagnosed. I then was rushed back to the hopsital two days later and finally got a correct diagnosis. I credit God, my surgeon and the good healthcare in this country for allowing me to survive it. Prayers to the kid’s family.


8 posted on 07/21/2010 11:01:12 AM PDT by Cheesel (So this how democracy dies...with thunderous applause, March 21, 2010)
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Oh yeah, The tomato brains here want to pattern our health care after these tomato brains. Sounds about right.

Well, she did save someone money by just taking a pill and dying.

That’s what it’s all about.

Got to keep that money saved to further the cause.


10 posted on 07/21/2010 11:04:25 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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What is the problem here? This girl’s end-of-life care was managed very efficiently, and cost the NIH only a few hundred dollars. There is no way the US health-care system could have dealt with this case for even ten times that price.


11 posted on 07/21/2010 11:06:41 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (There are 10 kinds of people: Those who get binary math, and those who don't.)
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She was clogging up a bed and costing them money. They wanted her out of the hospital.

Medical decisions take the backseat to budget decisions.

Welcome to Obamacare.


12 posted on 07/21/2010 11:07:58 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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FWIW, glandular fever is the British name for mononucleosis.
13 posted on 07/21/2010 11:16:00 AM PDT by Zakeet (The Big Wee Wee -- rapidly moving America from WTF to SNAFU to FUBAR)
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I had to look up some of the terminology. “Glandular fever” is what Brits call “mononucleosis.” The article said she had that, plus pneumonia; yet they sent her home.

Septicemia is when a baterial infection in one locale in the body gets into the bloodstream and starts to overwhelm the entire body, resulting in a very rapid decline and death. Some of the symptoms are a failure to produce urine and red blotches on the skin.


15 posted on 07/21/2010 11:24:40 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (" 'Bush did it' is not a foreign policy." -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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Shrug. What are ya gonna do? Mistakes will happen.


17 posted on 07/21/2010 11:28:34 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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Corrected title :

Parents’ fury as teenage daughter dies just days after doctors sent her home and ‘told her to go home and die’


23 posted on 07/21/2010 11:48:07 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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Brought here, courtesy of Dr. “Just-take-a-pain-pill” Mengele...oops...Obama.


26 posted on 07/21/2010 12:05:42 PM PDT by kromike
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“I’m in love with the British health care system.”


31 posted on 07/21/2010 12:36:13 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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FYI - paracetamol = acetaminophen = Tylenol


34 posted on 07/21/2010 12:47:38 PM PDT by jimt
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bttt


35 posted on 07/21/2010 1:05:19 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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the girl died.

the socialized medical system worked EXACTLY as designed.


44 posted on 07/21/2010 2:07:24 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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I read another article at the Daily Mail today about new success with knee replacements, it sounds very good, but... one of the comments was a fellow who had an operation on his knee cartilage that left him in continuing "excruciating" pain. Under Britain's National Health Service "NHS", he says it will be seven years before he can be considered for a knee replacement.

This is what Obama and his medical rationing czar are bringing to America.

45 posted on 07/21/2010 4:22:48 PM PDT by RJL (Sarah Palin/Paul Ryan in 2012)
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well - it was free, and they did give her pills.


48 posted on 07/21/2010 4:52:29 PM PDT by Scotswife
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