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What are your experiences of care for your loved ones in hospitals here? [75]
7kgs in five days.
Jesus! Serious stuff. Been there, done that - but not in 5 days!
Now about why Poles aren't automatically covered. I asked one of the venerable 500 medical council doctors (great guy) about this. My limitless respect for him went down just a tad when he told me "You've got a "newish" car outside? So you can afford to pay for medical care, can't you? " He wouldn't have it when I said I'd already paid, and he was adamant that health is a service that the individual should cost for, like bread and butter.
That view is is directly at odds with the perceived view of the doctor in the UK, who has declared the Hippocratic oath and is there to serve, supports the NHS, and does not decide to become a doctor to be comfortably off as an immediate priority.
I could have just said that the NFS system is collapsing and is part based on thievery and part on total subjectivity. The fact that Mr Atch lost all that weight tells us that the hospital didn't want him dying on them. When I had the dreaded Silesian pneumonia, the system leapt into action, simply I suspect because the paperwork involved with processing a dead Dougpol would have inconvenienced them, or maybe because with all their ill miners with that illness they recognise the serious of it in time.
There's a lot more
Revealing post. Thanks. There is of course the old chesnut that Atch referred to - "the blowing things out of all proportion" - the week long stay in hospital for a first time migraine sufferer.....huge sums wasted because it's public money, and so, paradoxically, "there's plenty more where that came from."
500+ program probably, to support the children of people who can't afford to have kids in the first place
Should be means tested too. A lot of my learners are professionals with 2 or 3 kids. "What do you do with your 500 plus", I ask them. "Oh, it's banked every month to help them put a deposit on a flat when they're 21......."
