Foolish serf... :)
BTW, I think I found a picture of the doctor in question:
Posted on 10/19/2009 8:15:16 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A doctor who failed to spot the symptoms of cervical cancer in a young woman eight times in four years faces being struck off.
Dr Navin Shankar told Nikki Sams her health problems were 'nothing serious', never performed an internal examination and ignored her pleas for a hospital check-up.
The blunders only emerged when she was transferred to another surgery after Dr Shankar was suspended in a separate case of serious misconduct.
Her new doctor immediately ordered a smear test which showed the advertising saleswoman had abnormal cells and more tests found she had a tumour.
Miss Sams had a hysterectomy and months of treatment but died a year later aged 26 after the cancer spread to her lungs, spine and neck.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ain’t socialized medicine grand?
Struck off??? weird term
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.....
Their names struck from the list of licensed physicians?
I know there are plenty of Brits that are quite satisfied with the NHS trust. But it seems like there’s an NHS “Outrage of the day” coming from the British press everyday. Granted, I’m paying more attention now so I’m noticing more but doesn’t this have an impact on the population in the UK?
Quite weird; a few years ago it was "he had his future freed up." In any case, this guy sounds like a real quack. Shankar, huh? Too busy practicing his sitar to practice medicine?
They’re Brits.
The same folks who spell “gasoline” as “p-e-t-r-o-l”.
If she could speak Paki she’d be alive today. I blame her.
“Merci beacoups!” – B.H. 0bama
But they can pronounce “aluminium” correctly.
Im not sure I believe this story. If this woman was having her annual paps the lab screwed up. If she wasnt, she screwed up.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, version of US health care coming to you next.
Struck off this congress and president!
That may be true, but we pronounce "aluminum" correctly.
“aluminium”, and “Jaguar”.
I retract my prior statement, didnt know she couldnt get the annual paps.
I've found the same with Canadians.
I think these systems work fairly well for minor, mundane, and more straightforward maladies, the kinds of things most younger, healthier people need health care for.
The problems seem to start when you have something difficult to diagnose, something that requires long-term care, or something that requires cutting-edge care.
My one use of the NHS was ultimately satisfactory, but it was a very minor complaint. Several aspects about the experience, left me less than enamored of the system, however.
Im not sure I believe this story. If this woman was having her annual paps the lab screwed up. If she wasnt, she screwed up.
From what I read in the story, she had to be 25 years old to get a regular exam. Which sounds crazy, but i dont understand the socialized mindset, either.
Not all Indian physicians are bad. In fact, the educational system in India is getting better while those in the West are getting worse.
Nevertheless, it is very noticeable that the entire NHS system is filled with foreign doctors, nurses, and clerks. There are very few native-born English left in the system.
Why? Because nobody in his right mind wants to work for NHS.
Many Freepers will remember that there were a number of Pakistani terrorist bombers (”Asians”) working in the system as doctors a year or two ago. They’ll take just about anyone they can get.
The same is noticeably happening in this country, even before healthcare is nationalized. And it will predictably get worse, as nobody but illegal aliens will probably want to work for the kind of wages and under the kind of conditions that will prevail.
Struck Off = Promoted to Chief Cancer Specialist in Obama health care, keep costs high, but kill of patients ...
see #16
Many Indians and Asians are great medical students but in practice they lack in quality.
That’s because we INVENTED the word.
"I figured, how far could you coast on charm? Well, pretty far, actually!"
It’s always amusing seeing the terms the Brits use for various things.
But this idiot sure does need to be “struck off”, or worse, for repeatedly missing this poor girl’s cancer!
I never knew it wuz pronounced “Jagga-WHARRR”!
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Apparently she wasn’t having annual paps. The story states the “dr” never did an internal exam, which would be necessary to collect a pap
The US is becoming more and more the same way. I have some Indian colleagues that are excellent. But in our practice, about 75-80% of people we interview for new positions are foreign medical grads. This will only increase if obamacare becomes a reality......
They don’t do annual pap smears in the UK for women under 25.
I believe they’re in the process of changing the age threshold down to 21, after a few young women have actually died for lack of one.
(sauropod’s wife)
Mrs. Buckeye Battle Cry is a Cytotechnologist. She says that she routinely screens pap smears for girls as young as twelve and is terrified of what she sees in regards to STDs and pre-cancerous cells. It is insane that British women must wait until they are 25 to receive annual checks.
She also sees some of the weirdest and funkiest names you can imagine. But, she can’t tell them to me because of HIPAA.
Yes it does. We try very very hard not to get sick!
The NHS doesn’t encourage annual paps. I lived there 11 years and had many British neighbors and rarely did I hear of one getting a pap.
It is already a law in California that lab techs are not allowed to review more than 80 Pap Smear plates per work day.
If we are adding millions of people to the health care plan, how long will it take for a woman’s Pap Smear to be read? How long are the plates viable to even be read?
Seriously, I suspected that was the case. Since the marketing idiots have discovered British accents sell things, I've gotten to where I can't stand an English accent. Just sounds like there's just so much pomposity built right into it. Must be my Irish heritage.
Just curious .... why didn't the young lady visit another doctor?
Foolish serf... :)
BTW, I think I found a picture of the doctor in question:
I don't know about 'socialized' systems elsewhere, but in the NHS in Britain you can go to any doctor you want and get as many second, or third, or fourth...opinions as you want. I've done this on a number of occasions.
Correct
There are certainly plenty of overseas-born and overseas-trained staff in the NHS, but 'very few native-born English left' is rather an exaggeration. I don't know the figures, but just to give an anecdotal example from my own experience - the group GP Practice which I now attend has been staffed entirely by British-born and trained doctors throughout the 27 years I've lived here, with the exception of one Pole who joined last year. Likewise, the dozen or so specialist consultants to whom I've been referred for various conditions in recent years have all been British, except for one orthopaedic surgeon, an Iranian who (like many professionals) fled here on the fall of the Shah.
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