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.
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.