Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
Feb 21st 2008, 10:56 am
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Re: Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
hey we have long waiting times in A & E here in Uk. and also treatment times and the drugs is a post code lottery depends where you live what you can have unbelievable but true one young man lived 20 miles away from an area where he would have got the relevant cancer treatment free but he and his family had to pay for the medication and sadly he died from cancer vecause he wasnt able to get the right meds early enough. The hospitals are dirty, you can pick up an infection in hospital after a stay there If you want a ;national' health service please dont follow the full example of the NHS
Feb 21st 2008, 11:15 am
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Re: Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
Feb 21st 2008, 11:23 am
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Feb 21st 2008, 11:26 am
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Feb 21st 2008, 12:23 pm
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Re: Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
Infections contracted in hospitals are the fourth largest killer in America. Every year in this country, two million patients contract infections in hospitals, and an estimated 103,000 die as a result, as many deaths as from AIDS, breast cancer, and auto accidents combined.
http://www.hospitalinfection.org/essentialfacts.shtml
http://www.hospitalinfection.org/essentialfacts.shtml
Feb 21st 2008, 1:21 pm
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Re: Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
Infections contracted in hospitals are the fourth largest killer in America. Every year in this country, two million patients contract infections in hospitals, and an estimated 103,000 die as a result, as many deaths as from AIDS, breast cancer, and auto accidents combined.
http://www.hospitalinfection.org/essentialfacts.shtml
http://www.hospitalinfection.org/essentialfacts.shtml
Feb 21st 2008, 1:22 pm
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Re: Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
hey we have long waiting times in A & E here in Uk. and also treatment times and the drugs is a post code lottery depends where you live what you can have unbelievable but true one young man lived 20 miles away from an area where he would have got the relevant cancer treatment free but he and his family had to pay for the medication and sadly he died from cancer vecause he wasnt able to get the right meds early enough. The hospitals are dirty, you can pick up an infection in hospital after a stay there If you want a ;national' health service please dont follow the full example of the NHS
My husband's former biz partner spent an entire night from 10 or 11 pm till 6 am in the A and E of a local good hospital bleeding all the time, waiting for stitches, with some of the best healthcare insurance that money can buy. If it wasn't for my dh who bandaged him up (he'd been a St John's boy for years as a teen), he'd have bled out. They didn't even stick a bandage on him - dh had to keep bugging them for new ones.
45 MILLION people can't even afford an oncologist, never mind cancer drugs.
Give me the NHS and other European equivalents any day.
Feb 21st 2008, 2:29 pm
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Re: Sicko - so who has now seen the film?
As far as I understand it, they felt it should be stitched up by a plastic surgeon - and the ER was busy and it took a while to get to a minor injury. Just because the waiting room isn't busy doesn't mean the ER isn't busy - the major injuries/illnesses come in by ambulance, straight into the back.
I must be missing something, because I don't really see the problem.
Inconvenient sure, but...?
I must be missing something, because I don't really see the problem.
Inconvenient sure, but...?
Then more words will not persuade you otherwise.
Last edited by Xebedee; Feb 21st 2008 at 2:34 pm.
