British NHS throws inaugural ball 4 Obamacare

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Hat tip to Mark Steyn for the link (and the title) via NRO...

Docs removed wrong testicle | The Sun |News

A PATIENT was left infertile after doctors operating on his testicle removed the wrong one.

The bungling medics' mistake has prompted an urgent overhaul of procedures at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.

Details of the error surfaced this week after the hospital was forced to confess all thanks to freedom of information laws.

Well, as the left likes to remind us about Obamacare: "This is only the first snip on the way to National Health Care". Show me where the long long lines are going to start, I want to be sure to be at the very end of it. Isn't it great to be catching up to the rest of the industrial-sized socialism of the rest of the West? All it took NHS was a year and a freedom of info requst to share with the public their "Ow, my balls!" special brand of care.

And that level of care will not cost us a thing. Well...

 

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And accidents don't happen under our current system in America?

 

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That's some funny shit.

 

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And accidents don't happen under our current system in America?

Fair enough, how about the following for a headline: Death Panels 'Right' 97% of the Time!

Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve - Times Online

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Deborah Murphy, the national lead nurse for the care pathway, said: “If the education and training is not in place, the [plan] should not be used.” She said 3% of patients placed on the plan recovered.

 

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And accidents don't happen under our current system in America?

How's this for cuckoo.... a ten month wait, for a broken arm. Wow!

Plumber with shattered arm left horrifically bent out of shape has operation 'cancelled four times' | Mail Online

A plumber whose arm was left twisted grotesquely out of shape in an accident ten months ago has had an operation to correct it 'cancelled four times'.

Torron Eeles, 50, has been left unable to work since falling down the stairs and now fears he may lose his home after being denied incapacity benefit.

The father-of-three today hit out at the NHS for the 'unacceptable delays', but East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust said Mr Eeles had his operation cancelled on 'only' two occasions on clinical safety grounds.

His left arm has hung limply by his side since he fractured the humerus bone in December 2008.

Mr Eeles, from Welham Green, Hertfordshire, applied for employment and support allowance but a doctor ruled he is ineligible for both because he can turn on a tap.

On the plus side, his "care" didn't cost him any money. Well...

 

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As we take the next snips (oops, I mean "steps") down this tragic road one ought to wonder just how long it is before the words "free private healthcare" make some kind of sense in "American english"...

3,000 NHS staff get private care

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6879553.ece

THE National Health Service has spent £1.5m paying for hundreds of its staff to have private health treatment so they can leapfrog their own waiting lists.

More than 3,000 staff, including doctors and nurses, have gone private at the taxpayers’ expense in the past three years because the queues at the clinics and hospitals where they work are too long.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information act show that NHS administrative staff, paramedics and ambulance drivers have also been given free private healthcare. This has covered physiotherapy, osteopathy, psychiatric care and counselling — all widely available on the NHS.

Things that make you go hmmmmm....