Posted on 12/14/2020 2:48:18 PM PST by george76
A 27-year-old father of two from the UK died of cancer — months after he had to beg for an MRI scan amid a slowdown during the coronavirus crisis.
Sherwin Hall, of Leeds, West Yorkshire, died on Dec. 3, following an illness that began more than a year earlier.
Hall first began experiencing groin pain in September 2019 that subsided and re-emerged in January — and was given antibiotics both times, he wrote on a GoFundMe page back in May.
He thought he was feeling better, but then the pain returned “with a vengeance” in March, when he experienced pain in his right leg and buttock, and a hard lump by his rectum, he wrote.
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begging them in April and May to give me an MRI scan, but no one would listen.
“Both my GP and my consultant told me that I couldn’t get a scan because scanning services were slowed down because of the coronavirus. By this time, my pain was so excruciating and I felt so unwell and so exhausted that I was almost suicidal.”
On May 26 — several months after first experiencing symptoms — Hall was finally given the scan, which revealed a 5.5-inch mass in his pelvis..
He also had 30 lung tumors
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“I am devastated. I have lost the love of my life,” Hall said in a statement. “If Sherwin’s cancer had been found earlier, it is likely he would still be here today. He would want me to do everything I can to prevent other families suffering as we have.”
“It worries me that the Government and NHS leaders continue to say cancer services are back to normal,” she said.
“Our family’s experience has been that, even now, this is simply not the case.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
God rest his soul.
Horrible. My sympathies for this young man and his family.
He should have been properly diagnosed, then given a prescription of Fentanyl.
There are good reasons to take this very addictive drug.
This is but one reason.
The Medical “Profession” is not. Knought.
The only good reason for taking fentanyl is if you are terminal and are going to die anyway.
No way would I touch that crap unless I was already on the way out.
Socialized medicine.
Tragic. A real shame that many Beijing Biden voters will experience the same under socialized medicine err “public option” not to mention a national lockdown to treat virus panic.
Several years ago I was reading a medical report from England on how the outlying counties had such poor medical services. One fellow made the argument that was something like “There is no reason why one has to wait 42 weeks for a hearing test in a county hospital while one can get it in only 12 weeks in London!” (It was something crazy like that!)
Well at least it was government run universal health care.
“It worries me that the Government and NHS leaders continue to say cancer services are back to normal,” she said.
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Unfortunately, this is normal.
Those Brits seem to die like flies waiting on decent healthcare from their socialized health service.
But, it’s “free!”
https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/d00233a1
They use it in patch forms for slow release pain relief over 72 hours / patch.
??? I had fentanyl (and versed) for a TEE, last week. Worked great. When I “woke up,” I asked the techs how much longer before we got started. Of course, we were already done.
Coming soon to a state near you.
It would be accurate to say he died of COVID. COVID policies, that is.
Socialized medicine is free, and you get what you pay for.
Welcome to the wonders of socialized healthcare.
Coming soon to a country near you.
I have serious permanent nerve damage in my left arm as a result of an A/V fistula irritating the nerves, on top of the fistula itself being right up against a nerve cluster in my wrist. Without the duragesic, I couldn’t function even remotely normally, and I’m still in immense pain if I use that arm too much.
Opening doors, carrying groceries, even petting the dog all hurt. Stacking every activity during the day on top of rolling around at night trying to get comfortable, it adds up. When I was still on dialysis, I was routinely having to cut treatments short due to the pain, and it takes A LOT of pain to make me cry.
Anyone who has permanent pain issues and is opioid tolerant can take the stuff. Cancer patients are always thought of first, which makes sense, but there are many applicable uses for it outside of terminal illness.
Someone was bribed to NOT help him and others.
Along the Canada / US border are clinics on the US side that have MRI machines that cater to Canadians as they too cannot get medical care in a timely manner in Canada. The price is around $300 for a MRI scan.
Also hospitals were bribed with higher payments for chinese virus patients or a positive test for chinese virus so everyone had the virus.
They will kill you when bribed by the democrats and by who you voted for. In england they kill 125,000 a year by denying medical care. You do not know you are on a death list.
Hospitals bribed to put patients on pathway to death: Cash incentive for NHS trusts that meet targets on Liverpool Care Pathway
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223286/Hospitals-bribed-patients-pathway-death-Cash-incentive-NHS-trusts-meet-targets-Liverpool-Care-Pathway.html
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