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Originally Posted by rgjbloke

A friend of mine who is 89 walks to the pub usually once a week for his two beers. It's not far, about 500 yards. He came in a few weeks ago and said he had a fall just across the road on his way there. When he went home, one of the blokes walked with him to make sure he was ok. It turned out that he has had several falls and his daughter took him to the doctors for a checkup.

They stuck a portable monitor on him for 24hrs which he carried around with him while he went and did some shopping and a bit of gardening etc. After the 24hrs period, he took it back to the doctors. Two hours later, they rang his daughter and told her to get him up the hospital straight away where they had already booked a bed for him.

It turned out, he was a walking time bomb just looking for an excuse to collapse with fatal results. Two days after being rushed into hospital, they fitted him with a pacemaker and two days later he was sent home.

I think for all it's faults, and let's face it, there are plenty of them, there are still many many occasions where the NHS works miracles and saves lives.

Aye. Eekanormics aside the NHS is how we choose to rumble, a knowing choice; and a high water-mark of civilisation. Those unfortunates from the rough end of the trench who encounter it are treated with dignity and given the opportunity to see the flip side. A 'client' from Middle-East found themselves dialling 999 and watched in amazement at the whole process unfolding with Teutonic calmness. It flies our values.

Originally Posted by jarrod248

Perhaps you've little knowledge of the subject. I'm quite sure the World health organisation isn't wrong.

Little knowledge of it?

How about seeing a bed being blocked by a hardened alcholic in th cardio unit because the Cnut had come in for the umpteenth time with 'chest pains' and then the Cnut fucks off when he gets a bollocking by the specialist who is sick to the back teeth of the drunken cnut ending up on his unit?

The Drs and Consultants at my local hospital call them 'professional patients' who will play the game for a few days R & R in a nice hospital.

Originally Posted by sunnoficarus

Little knowledge of it?

How about seeing a bed being blocked by a hardened alcholic in th cardio unit because the Cnut had come in for the umpteenth time with 'chest pains' and then the Cnut fucks off when he gets a bollocking by the specialist who is sick to the back teeth of the drunken cnut ending up on his unit?

The Drs and Consultants at my local hospital call them 'professional patients' who will play the game for a few days R & R in a nice hospital.

Perhaps if they'd treated him for his alcoholism he may have made some improvement. Alcoholics are hard to treat in community, much easier in Hospital.

Originally Posted by jumpinjarhead

I think you are understating the drawbacks and overstating the "safeguards" and benefits. As most of the post WWII socialized European experiments, our own Social Security and Medicare systems in the US and many of our own industries that have crippling legacy costs are now dramatically showing, they are inherently unsustainable even if there was a 100% tax rate on the evil "rich."

Unless I'm very much mistaken, you've spent your entire working life working public sector jobs with free healthcare. Now that you've retired from the Marines, you still qualify for free healthcare through the VA. From a financial point of view you're a bigger part of the problem than most.

Originally Posted by rgjbloke

A friend of mine who is 89 walks to the pub usually once a week for his two beers. It's not far, about 500 yards. He came in a few weeks ago and said he had a fall just across the road on his way there. When he went home, one of the blokes walked with him to make sure he was ok. It turned out that he has had several falls and his daughter took him to the doctors for a checkup.

They stuck a portable monitor on him for 24hrs which he carried around with him while he went and did some shopping and a bit of gardening etc. After the 24hrs period, he took it back to the doctors. Two hours later, they rang his daughter and told her to get him up the hospital straight away where they had already booked a bed for him.

It turned out, he was a walking time bomb just looking for an excuse to collapse with fatal results. Two days after being rushed into hospital, they fitted him with a pacemaker and two days later he was sent home.

I think for all it's faults, and let's face it, there are plenty of them, there are still many many occasions where the NHS works miracles and saves lives.

Fucking well done them. They've kept an 89 year old man alive for another year or so at a cost of Christ knows what. Public money well spent.

Originally Posted by DeltaDog

Fucking well done them. They've kept an 89 year old man alive for another year or so at a cost of Christ knows what. Public money well spent.

Yes it is and if it was my dad I'd be really pleased about it.

Originally Posted by DeltaDog

Fucking well done them. They've kept an 89 year old man alive for another year or so at a cost of Christ knows what. Public money well spent.

Longevity seem's to run in my mate's family. His mum lived until she was 102 years of age. So the NHS may well consider they have spent their money on a worthwhile case!

Originally Posted by rgjbloke

Longevity seem's to run in my mate's family. His mum lived until she was 102 years of age. So the NHS may well consider they have spent their money on a worthwhile case!

Isn't it great to hear stories of the elderly being well cared for, the sort of people who have funded the NHS forever.