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So Much Harm to Patients: British Doctors Describe NHS as Worse Than Communist China
Jul. 12, 2013 3:32pm Erica Ritz
Jul. 12, 2013 3:32pm Erica Ritz
?So Much Harm to Patients?: British Doctors Describe NHS as ?Worse Than Communist China? | TheBlaze.comProponents of President Obamas Affordable Care Act often suggest skeptics look across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom as an example of what can be made better with the American health care system.
But doctors in the United Kingdom have about had it, it seems, calling their own system worse than Communist China.
A recent report in the U.K. Telegraph chronicles the conclusions of the British Medical Associations annual conference, where doctors loudly lamented the undue power of abusive managers and bureaucrats, who seem to have as much or more power in hospitals than the actual doctors.
The result is the perfect toxic professional working environment for this explosive mixture to generate disasters such as Mid Staffordshire which did so much harm to patients, said Dr. Peter Holden, a member of the BMAs GP negotiating committee.
Not even in Communist China did they have managers overruling doctors in the operation of hospitals and health services, he added.