My elderly neighbour here in Australia waited over 3 years to get much needed eye surgery.
They fucked up his eye surgery and now he's functionally blind. They have admitted that something went wrong with the operation but they say they can fix it. Current wait time to get back into surgery for them to fix the problem is 18 months to 2 years.
Poor old bugger lives alone and is struggling. I'm helping him out as much as he will allow and he has other friends helping as well, but we can't return his eyesight.
My mother-in-law is subject to the health care regime in the UK. After years of wrangling with officials, we arrived at the realization that: (1) No one is in charge. Patients are handed off from hospital to hospital, from doctor to doctor, with no central records. The patient's medical history essentially starts over with each transfer of care. (2) The medical bureaucracy exists to rationalize doing nothing. They don't have money to do much of anything, so they look for reasons why doing nothing is the right thing. Any actual patient is therefore a hot potato. (3) They will promise things and it will mean nothing. No one is in a position to be held to account. (4) They will indulge the negligent behavior of the patient, so long as they can claim the patient is of sound mind.
For any problems I have , or preventative care I literally fly to Poland and have a private appointment. It’s cheap and the care is about 10 times better.
Every time I’ve gone to the doctor they’ve pretty much said take ibuprofen and come back in 2 weeks if you don’t feel better…
.The Bernician website the midazolam murders by government decree by injecting more than 136000 people in UK care homes by injecting over 65s with the infamous lethal drug midazolam with deliberate intent to murder them as a planned operation
It's waaay better here in Greece. And much cheaper if you have to go private. Dental treatment, too.
My neighbour needed a prostatectomy. It was done after just THREE days and the local hospital had a robot surgeon to perform the operation. My doctor friend in the UK says that he wouldn't even know where to find a hospital with such a robot.
It's happening everywhere in the West, it seems.
My elderly neighbour here in Australia waited over 3 years to get much needed eye surgery.
They fucked up his eye surgery and now he's functionally blind. They have admitted that something went wrong with the operation but they say they can fix it. Current wait time to get back into surgery for them to fix the problem is 18 months to 2 years.
Poor old bugger lives alone and is struggling. I'm helping him out as much as he will allow and he has other friends helping as well, but we can't return his eyesight.
What a wonderful system.
My mother-in-law is subject to the health care regime in the UK. After years of wrangling with officials, we arrived at the realization that: (1) No one is in charge. Patients are handed off from hospital to hospital, from doctor to doctor, with no central records. The patient's medical history essentially starts over with each transfer of care. (2) The medical bureaucracy exists to rationalize doing nothing. They don't have money to do much of anything, so they look for reasons why doing nothing is the right thing. Any actual patient is therefore a hot potato. (3) They will promise things and it will mean nothing. No one is in a position to be held to account. (4) They will indulge the negligent behavior of the patient, so long as they can claim the patient is of sound mind.
I live in the UK. It's just easier to go private and suck up the expense.
If anyone wants some insight into how terrible socialized medicine is, just read through this thread on the Ottawa forum on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/v64555/burned_out_closing_practices_family_doctors_warn/
doesnt help when you fire all the purebloods and the employees are still getting covid
I live in the UK and can confirm. It’s shit.
For any problems I have , or preventative care I literally fly to Poland and have a private appointment. It’s cheap and the care is about 10 times better.
Every time I’ve gone to the doctor they’ve pretty much said take ibuprofen and come back in 2 weeks if you don’t feel better…
Have to wait 7 hours here.
You ain't seen nothin yet.
.The Bernician website the midazolam murders by government decree by injecting more than 136000 people in UK care homes by injecting over 65s with the infamous lethal drug midazolam with deliberate intent to murder them as a planned operation
It's waaay better here in Greece. And much cheaper if you have to go private. Dental treatment, too.
My neighbour needed a prostatectomy. It was done after just THREE days and the local hospital had a robot surgeon to perform the operation. My doctor friend in the UK says that he wouldn't even know where to find a hospital with such a robot.