Do they not do annual Pap tests in the UK?
During Trumps visit to GB they kept saying NHS was on the table then off table during negotiations. What was that about?
That was the bad news. The good news was that she didn’t have to pay for it.
“Single payer health would destroy the quality of the American health care system in its entirety, make no doubt about that.”
Of course it would. That’s the objective.
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Poor thing. She should've spend her last days raising the awareness of the dangers of socialized medicine.
Bump
What did you get for Christmas?
A Laporoscopic Cholycystecomy.
That happens here too. We are not immune to false diagnosis.
What gets more votes, treating one person who’s causing global warming (by having kids), or immunizing 1000 kids?
She must have had some mutant extra fast growing version, otherwise this would have been detected years earlier by gyn exam and pap smear.
Cervical cancer usually is detectable 6 to 10 years before it becomes so enmeshed with internal organs it can’t be stopped.
Lost my Mother in Law to the slow growth version because she neglected her own health to take car of her selfish, chain-smoking, emphysema-patient husband.
She collapsed when her kidneys both shutdown from obstructed ureters, and the dialysis and radiation treatments left her too weak for the massive surgery that would have been needed to extricate the tumor from her abdomen.
Within a few months her small bowel became obstructed and she basically starved to death. Mother in Laws stereotypically have a bad rap. She was no angel, but she really was a wonderful grandmother to my two kids. I wouldn’t wish that kind of death on my worst enemy, let alone a decent, caring person.
How do those advocates of it ignore the horrible system they put in place? Who in their right mind would want it here - BUT THEN - anyone who is a democrat isn’t in their right mind anyway. I don’t think Republicans are in favor of it. I wish we could send anyone who is a democrat and in need of a doctor to the UK for care...It ought to be required by law. I know - dream on!
The gastroenterologist that did the initial colonoscopy, told him he wished my son had come to see him 10 years earlier, but then went on to say, it probably wouldn't have mattered, because they don't begin screening anyone at 38, which is how old he would have been at the time. My Dad had colon polyps twice, was a smoker, but none of them were ever cancerous. He eventually died of lung cancer though. So did my Mom and one of my sisters.
My youngest son started smoking in his teens. I was the only one in my family that never smoked, yet I've had my own problems with diverticulitis, which caused a perforated bowel in 2010. I ended up with a temporary colostomy, which was reversed three months later. I've never had any polyps, nor has my other son who has never smoked, but he has suffered from IBS over the years. Because of my father's polyps, we both began getting screened at the age of 50.
I want people to know how important it is, that if anyone has a history of polyps in their family, they should be screened as early as possible.
Poor lady. RIP.
Bad doctors happen in every system. Friend of mine died of pancreatic cancer, he’d been having gut problems for a good 6 years with various diagnoses and attempts to fix before they finally properly diagnosed it, by then it was last stage and it was too late. Better doctor he’s probably still alive today.