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paulzolo
What's a life?
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| Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:29 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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A number of years back, I read a story on (IIRC) the BBC News Web site about a women in America who had a serious skull injury. because she had no insurance (or possibly the wrong kind) she was refused treatment and sent home with her head in a cycle helmet to protect her brain. I wish I could find it as I know a couple of people in the USA who would be interested. EDIT: Found it. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4954303/
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| Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:36 pm |
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
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Location: Portsmouth
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That's absolutely disgraceful. If that were me, I would want to stay in hospital until I had all my skull back in place. Is it really worth the risk of just wearing a helmet?   I wonder how treatment in the NHS would compare to this case. _________________
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| Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:04 pm |
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm
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Location: just behind you!
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Well her car would of been clamped as it had been in the car park far too long. _________________Finally joined Flickr
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gavomatic57
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:30 pm
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Location: Cardiff, Wales
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Funny, but untrue! I drove to the hospital the week before last, unfortunately I was admitted and my car was still in the hospital's pay & display. Nurse rang the car park to let them know and I paid a maximum of £6 for a 3-day stay. Would normally have been £30. (This is in Wales though, we have slightly different rules on these things) I was admitted straight away with massive pain in my kidney and blood in my pee, given x-ray's, an MRI scan and bucketloads of iced water and painkillers...if half your skull was missing I wouldn't mind betting you'd be in surgery before you realised what was going on.
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DaftFunk
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Wed May 06, 2009 3:39 pm
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Location: Peterborough
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Did you ever see the Morgan Spurlock documentary? Living on minimum wage, he had an injury and obviously on minimum wage couldn't afford any insurance. So he had no choice but to visit a community surgery where only the first couple of dozen people will get seen, and the rest have to get in a cue tomorrow.
Can you imagine getting sick and worrying that you can't get well for the huge costs? Universal health care should be a basic human right.
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Renal calculi maybe? I get them. Rather uncomfortable, to say the least. When I've had them I've found the NHS has been quite adroit at treating them, even when I turned up at A&E with a bad case on Christmas Eve. Jon
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| Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:17 pm |
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gavomatic57
Doesn't have much of a life
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Location: Cardiff, Wales
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Yep, 4mm stone on the left, incredibly painfull, however the out-of-hours service, my gp and the hospital were excellent.
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