PATIENT DIES AFTER RATS CHEW OFF PENIS IN WARD http://sg.news.yahoo.com/patient-dies-rats-chew-off-penis-ward-043048233.html
You ARE aware are you not that India is still a third world country with some of the most grinding poverty on the planet?? Or do you think that all of the world lives on American Standard of living?
Which is precisely why I posted what I posted. I'm not in the least surprised that this happened in India.
And leftists are rapidly on the way to making America into the new India. No, but eco-leftists sure are trying to reduce our standard of living to the level of Inida.
Hmmmm. I'd have to disagree. The medical campus where I work just underwent $35 million in additions and renovations with another $65 million slated for next spring. I'd say we're enhancing the standard of living, wouldn't you?
Sure, until Single Payer takes over and cutting costs takes precedence over all other concerns, like in the UK where if you need lorazepam for anxiety you get told to go home and boil eucalyptus tea.
socialism health care has nothing to do with india, we have to look at europe for good health care models
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Bull (*)(*)(*)(*)! It came directly from a UK subjects mouth to me personally. The point is that there is a wide range of services and treatments that are available in the USA that one cannot get under a national health care system due to cost and rationing requirements! Stop telling me I don't know what I'm talking about. I have a job that puts me in direct contact with people from all over the world and I talk to these people to get THE TRUTH rather than what people on the internet tell me. NHS is great if you break your leg, or if you are in a car accident or something but if you just go to the doctor, the doctors are loathe to give out prescription drugs. Here in America you go to the doctor and the doc will give you a presciption for just about any ailment out there. That is what Americans have come to expect! There are huge gaps in services provided under NHS systems that would (*)(*)(*)(*) an American off! Services that have less to do with lifesaving treatment or broken limbs and more to do with convenience and availability of drugs and other important services. If an American got told he can't have an MRI for (*)(*)(*)(*) headache, he's going to flip OUT. If you tell an American to go home and boil tea rather than give him a valium, he's going to freak OUT. You just don't get it! Americans in many ways are very spoiled with their health care and they are not going to take Universal Health Care rationing policies lightly! That is the problem that people in other countries do not understand. All they see are the horror stories, they simply don't understand that Americans expect top notch technology and top notch drugs at the drop of a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing hat and they don't want to be told by some rationing board that they have do without in order to save the government money! Why is that so hard to freakin understand??
Ooooh! The best of all possible sources of truth and wisdom "Wat sum bloke inna pub tol' me!" Did that font of veracity also explain what else might have been a factor such as - drug seeking behaviour, he was seeing an alternate therapist, the doctor thought he was scamming the system etc? linky!! So, unsupported opinion is more valid than facts - gotcha!! BTW - someone has told you about "Pommie Whingers" have they not? It is a subset of UK citizens that would complain about the softness of the clouds in heaven and how much harp practice there is. Translation = that is why there are far fewer prescription drug addicts in the UK than there are in the USA http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-30-drug-overdose_N.htm Deaths from prescription painkillers* have reached epidemic levels in the past decade. The number of overdose deaths is now greater than those of deaths from heroin and cocaine combined. A big part of the problem is nonmedical use of prescription painkillers—using drugs without a prescription, or using drugs just for the "high" they cause. In 2010, about 12 million Americans (age 12 or older) reported nonmedical use of prescription painkillers in the past year. http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PainkillerOverdoses/ Yes, we who work in socialised health care refuse to do things like remove nits from your kids hair - we (my god the inhumanity!!) insist that you do that for yourself Oh! Yes I do! Indeed I do! And it has less to do with delivery of services and more to do with giving the patient what they need rather than what they want. They might WANT the prescription pill but what they NEED is not to become addicted and to learn non-=pharmaceutical methods of lifestyle management The do what the "precious princesses" do here - go get private health insurance. Because private hospital is far less likely to throw you out of ED for wasting their time when you turn up with a broken fingernail. The common American ED term for the patient you are describing is a GOMER - stands for "Get Out of My Emergency Room" and they are the bane of all ED's. We have to treat sickest first - and there is no "rationing board" - why is that so hard to freaking understand? Ps - like to post a link to these mythical "rationing boards"?
