Have any of you seen the commercial in which the patient is being instructed by the doctor on how to perform his own surgery? Well, that is more than afforded a grandmother over in the UK who couldn’t get a dentist to pull her teeth. From the story: A grandmother performed her own tooth . . . . Continue Reading »
The news at the NHS goes from crisis to crisis. Now, women in labor are being turned away from hospitals. From the story: Almost half of NHS hospitals were forced to turn women in labour away last year because they were full, according to new figures that reveal the “shocking” state of . . . . Continue Reading »
What passes for health care these days in the UK keeps going from bad to worse. The latest bad news is a surge in deaths caused by hospital acquired infection. From The Guardian story:A 72% increase in deaths linked to the hospital superbug Clostridium difficile was disclosed yesterday by the Office . . . . Continue Reading »
Can you imagine? Say, you are hit by a car and are rushed to the hospital by ambulance. It arrives at the entrance, and instead of being taken into the ER for immediate treatment—you are left waiting for hours so that the hospital can say you were treated within four hours of arriving at the . . . . Continue Reading »
The NHS continues to implode. Now dentists are leaving the service, perhaps leading to a collapse of socialized dentistry. From the story:Contract changes that have seen more than 1,000 dentists leave the health service threaten to bring about the end of NHS dentistry, MPs will be warned next week. . . . . Continue Reading »
Every day it gets worse. Now, stroke victims are not being treated properly. From the story:Thousands of stroke victims die every year because they are not given life-saving drugs swiftly enough. Almost a third of stroke patients die within one month, a figure that could be cut if clot-fighting . . . . Continue Reading »
This is worse than awful: A 54 day old baby was sexually abused and beaten to death by her father. Yet during her brief life 30 different health care workers cared for her, and somehow didn’t notice a thing. Plus, her mother is schizophrenic, which should have triggered a referral to social . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot believe the disaster that is befalling the health care system in the UK. Now, it turns out that patients are leaving hospitals malnourished! From the story:Some 140,000 people are discharged from hospital while underweight every year, and most are never diagnosed or treated, nutritionists . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK’s NHS is in a meltdown. I didn’t blog it due to traveling, but did you see the story that people are pulling their own teeth because they can’t get good dental care through the NHS? And now, apparently record numbers of Brits are traveling abroad for health care because they . . . . Continue Reading »
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