Archive for the Health Care Category


Death panels? What death panels?

By Right Girl on Monday, January 17th, 2011 | 6 Comments

The NHS is gambling with patients’ health by increasingly banning operations for hernias, cataracts and arthritic joints to save money, one of the UK’s most senior medical figures said . John Black, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, accused NHS primary care trusts (PCTs) of pursuing a “dangerous” course by refusing [...]

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Non-essential surgery

By Right Girl on Monday, September 20th, 2010 | 8 Comments

The quality of a nation’s health care isn’t just based on whether or not you get through emergency triage with chest pains (you do, and damn fast). There are also the non-essential surgeries and treatments that effect quality of life. hip replacement knee and ligament surgery (no point touting the keep fit model if we [...]

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This is what Sarah Palin meant by “death panels”

By Right Girl on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The UK has decided that Avastin, the drug used to treat and prolong the life of cancer sufferers, can’t be used. Despite the fact that almost every other civilized country in the world offers this drug to cancer patients, the UK has seen fit to ban it. However, the Government rationing body NICE ruled yesterday [...]

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Coming soon to a hospital near you

By Right Girl on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Ah, the NHS, a favorite mutt to kick around at this site. As a Canadian who lived in Britain, I just don’t see the appeal of wholly subsidized single-payer health care. Yes, there will always be people in the lowest income brackets that will need care, and money shouldn’t be an object in treating them. [...]

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British “health” “care” shocka!

By Right Girl on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment

In Canada in 1990, my mother was brought to the hospital in extreme pain in her shoulder and upper back. She was not given an ECG to check for a heart attack. She was given Demerol and diagnosed with menopausal depression. Five months later she died of lung cancer. In the UK, a woman slightly [...]

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