Posted on 07/07/2010 5:23:20 PM PDT by Nachum
When Jane Harrop was admitted to hospital with severe pains in her head and neck, staff told her she was merely suffering a migraine. Two days later she had died of a rare brain virus. Her family have now called for answers after the 30-year-old carer was dosed up on morphine and left in a corner to die by nurses at the hospital, according to her husband. He said doctors failed again and again to spot the fatal virus which was killing her and did not transfer her to a specialist brain ward at a nearby hospital because no beds
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Donald Berwick considers this successful medical treatment.
Ah yes, but the “health care” that killed her was “free.” You can’t get a better deal than that.
From now on, we will have to call someone who dies of “rationed care” being “Berwicked”.
Berwick will use the THX 1138 treatment model
meningo-myeloencephalitis
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/216564-overview
Not for the faint of heart...
Prelude to ZeroCare.
“Her husband Dean, 29...”
Maybe things aren’t quite as bad as I thought...they still allow the word “husband”, for now, without an immediate jail sentence.
Everything else that I read says “partner”.
Putting Americans on national health care is intolerable. To Hell with the stupid Democrats.
Not too many years ago, only convicts used that term, then ex-cons used it out of "old habit".
This is what we have to look forward to with Obamacare.
Actually, the Brain ward was leased to a movie Co to shoot a porn movie.
“Maybe she died unneccessarily, but at least her treatment was “free”.”
Well, what do you want for free?
Oh, wait, it isn’t “free” exactly, is it?
What’s that formula the NHS uses - if it would cost more than 22K to extend someone’s life for six months, they don’t get the treatment - she probably would have died anyhow.....
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