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Originally Posted by missprincess
i hate the british health care system i remember recently on the news they mentioned how a elderly women who had her bed shifted to the toilet because they had no space in the wards,
besides this if your thinkin of being seen to on a weekend u can forget it, all the idiots who come in smashed up becoz of drinking too much will take the space of someone say whose had a heart attack or a stroke and needs immediate attention, things like this have happened alot, not to mention the arrogant staff and MRSA.
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No system is perfect. There'll always be the one incedent like the one you mentioned of a woman who's bed was shifted into the toilets - I'm not saying its right, just that one bad incedent doesn't mean the entire system is faulty. For example, surgery can save millions of lives but there will always be a handful of doctors who make mistakes, or patients who die on the table, but it doesn't mean just because one doctor is incompetent that all doctors are. The NHS isn't perfect, and yes some people get a raw deal, but it helps so many people that personally I think it's a good idea.
Also I think your comment on the 'idiots' getting priority over those who had 'heart attacks' or 'strokes' is perhaps wrong. In A&E they always treat people according to priority, so the idiot who has broke his leg will always get treated after the guy bleeding to death on the floor, which is as it should be. If some 'drunk'
is getting taking the space of 'someone who needs it' I'll be willing to bet there's a damned good reason, and that there's something that makes him a priority case that just perhaps isn't obvious to a non-medical person.
Personally I think the British healthcare system is excellent.
Here we have an option for private or free healthcare, and although free healthcare often has longer waiting lists it isn't inferior at all. The doctors who treat for free are often the exact same doctors who work in the private sector, and the NHS offers seriously sick or ill people a chance to be cured or helped who might not otherwise afford it. How many other countries treat the sick for free? You can make an emergency appointment with a doctor and be seen the same day, you can have a serious operation and not pay a penny, and yes it had flaws - not all medicines are avaliable, treatment can take longer - but ultimately it does more good than it does bad.
Edit: If the staff are arrogant it's due to long hours, lack of good pay, and the fact hardly anyone respect them - whether they work as a surgeon, or as a consultant, or even as the coroner - and you'll be suprised how much crap people give the nurses especially. The MRSA is a problem, but at least they're working to prevent it, such as hand sanitizers in every ward and public space and restricting visiting hours.