And THIS is what we can expect from the Hildebeast's plan for "Socialized Medicine"? *shudders*
The security people had all cleared the area so I just wandered on into that area. The thrust blew the fence over and blew the cotton deep into my ear. It was there for two years, despite several Dr. visits. (my poor mother)
Finally, it got infected and an ear Dr. found the cotton or tissue paper and removed it. I had super hearing in that ear for a week. I could hear a whisper from a block away. The rustle of someone's clothing across the room sounded like crumpling newspaper, inches away. I hated being deaf in one ear but the jet car was sure cool.
I suppose that now-a-days, one whould just sue the dragstrip for one's own foolishness.
‘But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it.”
Give the doc a break. Maybe he was looking in the wrong ear. It’s tough to teach a highly educated person right from left!
a friend’s daughter stuck a bean way up her nose when she was little and they thought she was mentally ill because all she did was pick her nose! LOL
They finally pulled the bean out and she went on to be ‘normal’ :|
Okay, here’s a whacked thought: many physicians in Britain are Muslim. Not saying this one was. But it made me think, in light of such seemingly lazy care, about motivating factors.
If, as a Muslim physician you had an agenda or calling—which we have seen proved is not impossible to imagine—for world domination, why would you exert yourself in the treatment of infidels? If no morality or Hippocratic Oath stood in your way, why not give the merest of consideration to a debilitating but not dire health issue? It’s not like they’re getting rich off of universal heath care payments. Why bother?
In the U.S., even if your doctor is an avowed misanthropist, they’re still motivated by cool cash. I’d trust that over underpaid and overworked socialized MDs.
WHAT?!
Anyone remember the episode of House with the cockroach?
This is mild, by NHS standards. Remember little Tilly Merrell? The NHS’ sorry excuses for doctors had “diagnosed” her in early infancy as having a condition which made any food she swallowed go into her lungs instead of her stomach. They promptly declared it incurable, drilled a hole through her back into her stomach, and she was tube fed for the next 7+ years, never allowed to eat meals with her family, the kitchen door locked for her protection, and wore a special food-pumping back-pack to school every day. Needless to say, a child with this arrangement would have been in regular contact with medical professionals year in and year out. It took a trip to doctors in the US to find out that there was NOTHING wrong with her (apart from swollen tonsils, which weren’t giving her any trouble as she wolfed down the newly-allowed food). The only cure that was needed was to start giving her food to eat and close up the hole in her back that the idiot NHS “doctors” had made.
Two particularly scary points:
1) Her plight had already received extensive national media coverage in the UK, yet no UK doctors had come forward to examine her and correctly identify the non-existent problem. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/4094575.stm
2) The poor little girl had been sneaking bits of food for years — and had no doubt tried to tell adults that nothing bad happened when she did this, but been dismissed as a little girl expressing understandable fantasies. So she grew up knowing that all the adults in her life were clueless about this supposed medical condition that dominated her life.
The psychological damage to this little must have been huge. One can only hope that when she grows up, she unleashes years of simmering rage onto her country’s socialized medicine system.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/24/MNG7FBG7241.DTL
DON'T TREAT THE OLD AND UNHEALTHY, SAY DOCTORS
Do something they consider unhealthy or age, and you can, literally, drop dead, as far as they are concerned. Ve Vill tell you how to live und ve vill kontrol your life!
He was probably from a family with advantages over others. So the deafness in one ear was a way to equalize him to others./Sarcasm
Well, he grew out of it.