Posted on 10/08/2009 11:33:06 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A plumber whose arm was left twisted grotesquely out of shape in an accident ten months ago has had an operation to correct it 'cancelled four times'.
Torron Eeles, 50, has been left unable to work since falling down the stairs and now fears he may lose his home after being denied incapacity benefit.
The father-of-three today hit out at the NHS for the 'unacceptable delays', but East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust said Mr Eeles had his operation cancelled on 'only' two occasions on clinical safety grounds.
His left arm has hung limply by his side since he fractured the humerus bone in December 2008.
Mr Eeles, from Welham Green, Hertfordshire, applied for employment and support allowance but a doctor ruled he is ineligible for both because he can turn on a tap.
He said: 'This whole situation is absolutely disgusting. I have never heard of anyone else having a broken arm for ten months.
'It's been so long the bones have knitted back together. Sleeping is really uncomfortable because whenever I roll over my arm gets in the way.
'I'm a kitchen fitter and plumber by trade but I can't even slice a loaf of bread let alone work.
'This has been going on and on and it's a complete nightmare.'
Mr Eeles fractured his arm on December 3 and was rushed straight to casualty where doctors put his arm in plaster.
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LOL... that's what I was going to say. Now he's the only one that can reach that one impossible to reach fitting up behind the sink.
“Wot’s ‘is then! What’d ya do t’my arm, y’tosser?”
“Oh sir, that is so you can reach down through the trap in a sink and unclog them more easily!”
}:-)4
Translation the guy goes to the hospital emergency room with a mangled arm and they put it in a plaster cast and make no effort at a surgical repair. In any US hospital the guy would have been in surgery that day having his arm repaired. Any US doctor or hospital treating a case like this would be sued for malpractice.
This reminds me of the Dr. Nick Simpson episode.
Becaue government bureaucrats and leftist politicians are SOOOOOOO compassionate.
Okay now I am pretty sure he did not set that arm by himself. So my next question is when he originally broke his arm what quack set his arm so that it would heal like that?
Most doctors I know of dont say okay lets set that arm and once it heals we will go back in and operate to straighten it out!
Ah the joys of a single payer system like the Brits have
But, you can’t sue the government, no matter how bad they screw up. That’s the point.
I’m sure Obama will come up with a system almost as good as the British system. I’m praying for America, that Obama’s socialized medicine will not pass.
"Oooh, proper little mommy's boy aren't we?"
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