you dont have to like it
and you dont have to live here.
please tell us how great the system is in england, i have already heard the horror stories from your neck of the woods...[/quote]
Of course you have, that is what you look for first when attacking social healthcare. As no system is perfect you will find the 'horror' stories you want. However you don't see the good stories do you, of the lives saved and improved, of the good care, the dedicated medical staff and the hospitals that do the cutting edge work on things like transplant and childrens care like the John Radcliffe and Great Ormand Street which are probably two of the best hospitals in the world. You don't hear about the work of Birmingham hospital which is at the leading front of battle trauma. You prefer to seek out the 'horror' stories, the truth with them too is that as soon as they are reported steps are taken to improve and learn from the bad situations that have happened. Sometimes the bad things that happen aren't due to it being a NHS hosptial but through human error that could happen just as easily in a posh place paid for by the patient . There are as many horror stories about the private sector here, of patients having to be rushed to NHS hospitals as the private hospitals didn't have the facilities it claimed.
I've read of equally horrible stories about American healthcare, about American gangs, violence and murders.Do I think that's the whole of America, that everyone is a gun toting maniac, of course not.
Our healthcare system is under strain, it's not perfect but no one would go back to the system before the NHS when you only got medical treatment if you could afford it. The majority of people are content with the NHS as it deals with them.
Creeping into our society now however is this thing that people aren't supposed to actually die, they don't die on the television or films so why are they dying for real? It must be the medics and the hospitals fault, this means people are left in a vegetative state or in comas because people believe they will recover. the idea of a dignified death has left us, you can't simply die now with your loved ones around you in a quiet room, no it has to be shocks to start the heart, injections and trauma, just so the family feel 'something' was done.
You will find a great many complaints about the NHS are about patients dying. One of the parents at our club is complaining that the doctors won't do anything for her mother who has terminal brain cancer, she wants the tumour removed at all costs to her mother, the doctors say they can't remove it without great pain and leaving her mother paralysed and she will die at the much the same time anyway. The doctors want her to have as much quality of life as she can during her remaining time. Her daughter is blaming the NHS for it's lack of action and says she should take her to America where she thinks they will operate. thee's one of your 'horror' stories, doctors caring holistically for their patient and wanting the best for her. It isn't the money btw, my instructor's elderly mother has just been operated on for bowel cancer because the doctors believe it's in her best interest. That was last week, she collapsed at the weekend and was operated on immediately. As my instructor says on FB, thank goodness for the NHS.
