Monday, July 06, 2009

"This dump's filthy. I'm going to the state-of-the-art joint five miles up the road."


"... In a government system, the decisions are the bureaucrats', and that's that. My father is currently ill, and the health "system" is doing its best to ensure it's fatal. When an ambulance has to be called, they take him to a different hospital according to the determinations of the bed-availability bureaucrats and which facility hasn't had to be quarantined for an infection outbreak. At the first hospital, he picked up C Difficile. At the second, MRSA. At the third, like the lady above, he got septicaemia. He's lying there now, enjoying the socialized health care jackpot — C Diff, MRSA, septicaemia. None of these ailments are what he went in to be treated for. They were given to him by the medical system. ..."
My uncle passed away last Friday (God rest his Soul) from such things as ......

.. The doctors have not identified a single cause for his decline, but it seems to be the effects of a series of debilitating infections - bronchitis, C-difficile and pneumonia - and gout. ..
Hmmmm ... I think can make the border in about an hour.