tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post6651365664082642298..comments2024-03-29T05:21:11.278+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: NHS-Approved Rent Seeking…JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-85786327335126546182012-08-17T05:31:28.436+01:002012-08-17T05:31:28.436+01:00"... I find myself even less well disposed to...<i>"... I find myself even less well disposed towards him than you are..."</i> <br /><br />It says a lot for the detachment that some medical people practice (as a defence mechanism?) that he seems totally oblivious to how his patients and their relatives mighttake this, doesn't it?<br /><br /><i>"Granted, I have been out of Scotland for a year and a half, but I call bullshit on this one."</i> <br /><br />Ah, but to you, 'obese' means 'couldn't get up again under own steam if fell over, and last saw his toes in 1945'. To the modern NHS, it means <a href="http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/who-are-you-going-to-believe-scientists.html" rel="nofollow">something quite different</a>...<br /><br /><i>"May he rot from the head down."</i> <br /><br />I think that process has already started.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-83295060871916590532012-08-16T22:32:21.987+01:002012-08-16T22:32:21.987+01:00Maybe someone ought to fatten this turkey and hurr...Maybe someone ought to fatten this turkey and hurry Christmas along. or is there a human variant of foie gras that we could force-feed him for? I freely admit to being Scottish and overweight, but I know why I am overweight. As Jasper Carrott once said, it's because one end of my digestive tract is bigger than the other.<br /><br />But having watched a close relative die from cancer that was undiagnosed until it had metastasised, I do not regret anything spent to provide palliative care.UK Fredhttp://ukfred.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-6373027460662293142012-08-14T20:33:29.486+01:002012-08-14T20:33:29.486+01:00Macheath, your anger obviously has an even greater...Macheath, your anger obviously has an even greater piquancy than mine, given your father's story, but it's been a long time since I read something which caused even my jaded and cynical perception of those who would rule over us to blench. With my parents both currently in remission from cancer (thankfully) after the NHS spent money on treating old people's cancer, and with a dear friend defying every odd going as he tries to live with dying from pancreatic cancer at the age of 63, this scum wants to prioritise hacking away at the stomachs at those whose problems are not physical at all, but psychological. He wants the money used to treat and care for people I love so he can perform surgery from the dark ages. May he rot from the head down.P T Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-28177146732465590882012-08-14T19:31:02.859+01:002012-08-14T19:31:02.859+01:00A lot of people who had gastric surgery get fat ag...A lot of people who had gastric surgery get fat again.<br /><br />And almost no-one stays slim after normal dieting either.<br /><br />How about we just leave fatties alone and find something else to obsess about?<br /><br />Btw, don't let the GP take your weight, don't tell them if you smoke or drink, don't encourage their sainthood obsession and refuse them the data to practice the dodgy statistics voodoo those quacks use to ration and shoo the sheeple with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-63005656426579080962012-08-14T16:56:54.809+01:002012-08-14T16:56:54.809+01:00Interesting timing on the part of de Beaux, given ...Interesting timing on the part of de Beaux, given that this was in the wind:<br /><br /><i>'Prostate cancer sufferers in Scotland have finally gained access to the drug used to extend the life of the Lockerbie bomber after the NHS’s spending watchdog agreed it was worth the cost.</i> <br /><br />(Daily Telegraph today)Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-28064299143059765552012-08-14T16:09:32.889+01:002012-08-14T16:09:32.889+01:00What Tatty said.
Those words should be printed, f...What Tatty said.<br /><br />Those words should be printed, framed and hung in every room in every hospital and every GP's surgery in the land.Yahoonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-71604138405855943672012-08-14T14:53:07.935+01:002012-08-14T14:53:07.935+01:00I'm a tad suspicious of anyone who turns down ...I'm a tad suspicious of anyone who turns down continuous paid work. It's like he just doesn't want the job anymore.<br /><br />Anyone would think "the money" came directly out of his own pocket. Newsflash doctor....it's OUR money.<br /><br />We pay for you to provide a service and we pay for the cost of that service. <br /><br />You are paid to try to heal the sick, help birth the next generation and help the last generation out of this life without pain and suffering. We pay for what you need to achieve that. Twice and thrice over, actually.<br /><br />If you can manage a shred of human compassion and dignity then great but frankly I don't care if my nurse has PMT or a shitty boyfriend so long as I get the service I require, I have paid for and I am entitled to.<br /><br />You are not paid to decide how much it should cost or who gets what level of service. That's our job.<br /><br />How hard can this be, really.<br /><br />Tattynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-61411622798942819752012-08-14T14:33:24.670+01:002012-08-14T14:33:24.670+01:00"More than a quarter of adults in Scotland ar..."More than a quarter of adults in Scotland are obese..."<br /><br />Granted, I have been out of Scotland for a year and a half, but I call bullshit on this one.Jeff Woodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-49486891018662885212012-08-14T14:02:29.376+01:002012-08-14T14:02:29.376+01:00P T Barnum, since the same palliative care (and at...P T Barnum, since the same palliative care (and at de Beaux' own hospital, no less) - despite prognostications of two extra months at most - actually kept my father alive for another 5 years, long enough to see his eldest grandchild get to university and his younger daughter married, I find myself even less well disposed towards him than you are...Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-71591934261118003382012-08-14T12:35:46.333+01:002012-08-14T12:35:46.333+01:00trying so very very hard not to wish a long slow l...<i>trying so very very hard not to wish a long slow lingering death from cancer on this quack....without expensive morphine...trying and failing....</i>P T Barnumnoreply@blogger.com