Posted on 10/12/2009 8:31:24 AM PDT by Joiseydude
A 72-year-old grandmother had her leg amputated after being told she had cancer only to find out her leg was healthy all along.
Doreen Nicholls underwent the surgery in 2007 and now needs a wheelchair to get about.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the grandmother was wrongly diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer and was told that without a leg amputation, she would die.
Tests carried out after the operation revealed that her left leg, which had been cut off below the knee, was in fact healthy.
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Another bite of the big turd sammich that is Zerocare....coming to a hospital near you.
Now that she is an amputee, her quality of life will be deemed so low as to not be worth sustaining. The next time she has stomach ache, she’ll be given the blue pill.
shoulda taken the pill, grannie.
Hey, mistakes happen.
The say that Government Healthcare is “free” but I hear it can cost you an arm and a leg.
Obamacare here we come......
are is it Happy days are here again?
And this is what the congress wants to heap upon us ——I am coming to believe that I died long ago and am living in purgatory
The clown probably said “shite happens ... good enough for government work, right mate.”
Every day we get these stories from the UK - yesterday was a smoker’s cancerous lungs being transplanted to an Iraq war vet - who then died of lung cancer.
Of course our illustrious senators won’t subject themselves to this. Everyone who votes for this for us but not for themselves needs to be thrown out of office.
Or is the real story a health care system that would not pay for a second confirming test, that decides the patient is too old for rehabilitating care such as an artifical leg, physical therapy, etc.?
I wonder and those questions are of vital importance on this side of the pond. Too bad the article didn't explore anything more than superficial sympathy.
Granny got the one-arm discount.
You can imagine the quality control in a government run system.
Think of being run through a postal service back room like a brown paper wrapped package, or Soviet housing quality.
And, health care is not only more personal, but more subtle and requiring higher, harder to measure quality metrics.
I’m sure like the public schools ‘most are above average’ scoring, the governments will report what they politically need to report.
Has Sir Paul given her a call ?
It’s a tragic situation, but even in the US there have been numerous cases of misdiagnosis of cancer, not to mention amputating the wrong limb.
They did a biopsy, but it apparently was a false positive.
They waited two months before amputating, and should have done further studies before engaging in an irreversible procedure.
She now gets “phantom pain” at the stump, which is fairly typical for amputees.
Just a tragedy for her, but you what, isht does happen, even in the US, where we have the best healthcare in the world.
(And in every release where a settlement is agreed upon, liability is expressly denied by the alleged tortfeasor- this is not novel.)
It appears that we have a winner LOL
And that is why you always get a second or even third opinion.
Woo hoo! Obamacare!
I guess second opinions are rather rare in the UK NHS. If you really have a condition, getting a second opinion would just add even more months of waiting before getting treatment.
This would never happen under Obama Care,at 72 she would have been given the cyanide pill 5 years earlier.
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