British Medicine

[Spector_Ray]

Of course I'm not condemning the system as a whole, but the doctors who examined this kid should have to pay back all the money they stole from his family!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

[Vince S.]

Originally Posted by Spector_Ray

Of course I'm not condemning the system as a whole, but the doctors who examined this kid should have to pay back all the money they stole from his family!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

So the doctors completely missed the fact that this kid had a q-tip tip stuck in his ear canal for 9 years?

[theshadow2001]

On the other hand they were right, he did grow out of it.

[steve21]

that's insane.

[Techmonkey]

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/...1466-20292129/

this, my friends, is why. this would never have happened in england.

same story with schools. same story with the transport sector.

what you gonna do? damn right it's devolution.

[benthughes]

Well..... in their defense I'd imagine it just looked like a clump of wax in there. It's not really an excuse though. If he can't hear and theres a plug obscuring the ear drum it seems to me that you could flush the ear canal to get a better look?

All in all it's pretty dumb. They shoulda called House.

[deekay911]

Originally Posted by Spector_Ray

Of course I'm not condemning the system as a whole, but the doctors who examined this kid should have to pay back all the money they stole from his family!

Of course the family would have paid nothing, as even in Wales social medicine prevails.

[Spector_Ray]

Originally Posted by deekay911

Of course the family would have paid nothing, as even in Wales social medicine prevails.

Well I guess you get what you pay for.

[caligula]

Originally Posted by Spector_Ray

Well I guess you get what you pay for.

Well, I don't have to pay any extra and I get all the treaments I need....thank God I'm healthy.
To me it's the doctors of that kid that failed, not the system. Thoses guys seems to be a bit incompetent and this could happen everywhere, whether I pay nothing or every extra treatment. (IMO)

[Mark Latimour]

I think I should find a single case of medical negligence in the USA, link to the article reporting it and label the thread "American medicine" with the thumbs down sign. I mean, that wouldn't be misleading at all. I am sure it will be very hard to find a case of medical malpractice reported in the USA though. I might have to set aside a day or so to search.

/This thread fails.

[brent69]

im glad the lads got is hearing back , but to put it into perspective , do they really think the doctors were negligent . People do suffer from blocked ears wether it be blocked by wax or some other medical reason, if they new for one second that there was something in the ear ,they would have had it removed asap . ist not in a doctors best interest to just brush it aside with a lame excuse , if the parents at the time thought there was a foreign object stuck in the ear, why didnt they push for another examination . Theres to many people in this world who just want someone to blame all the time ,instead of accepting an attitude of well s-it happens sometimes . And just be happy the lad can hear again . Thats my attitude to life and i live by it .

please dont give hyperthetical situations " you wouldnt like it if this blah blah blah happened to your kids blah blah

because if it did happen i would look at it with an open mature mind .

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Yeah, that sucks.

And yeah, its all been a big conspiracy, the same thing happened to every single person in the UK, damned social medicine! Now if we went to the US where we would have to pay, im sure there has never ever ever been one mistake ever made by any proffesional ever.

Get a grip Spector.


And +1 Brent69, my brother suffered from unusually high levels of ear wax build ups when he was younger, ended up getting gromits or something in his ears to try and open them up more and hinder wax build up, it could have been a simple enough mistake to not notice the bit of wax coated cotton.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Techmonkey

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/...1466-20292129/

this, my friends, is why. this would never have happened in england.

same story with schools. same story with the transport sector.

what you gonna do? damn right it's devolution.

Unfortunatly the same story all across the board it seems, looks like alot of NHS GPs might be going back to doing private work.

[*smb]

Please please please, to all Americans: do not take the Daily Mail as an accurate guide to what's going on in Britain.

And +1 to what Mark Latimour said. Obviously.

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by Mark Latimour

I think I should find a single case of medical negligence in the USA, link to the article reporting it and label the thread "American medicine" with the thumbs down sign. I mean, that wouldn't be misleading at all. I am sure it will be very hard to find a case of medical malpractice reported in the USA though. I might have to set aside a day or so to search.

/This thread fails.

+1

I'm sorry, but doctors make mistakes and blunders the world over.

[Bruce Lindfield]

Originally Posted by *smb

Please please please, to all Americans: do not take the Daily Mail as an accurate guide to what's going on in Britain..

+Infinity

You would have to pay me - a lot! - to read the Daily Mail!!

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

+Infinity

You would have to pay me - a lot! - to read the Daily Mail!!

Oh, I would have thought you'd be just the type to read it!

[sensible68]

I remember this case, I think the original doctor was American. He had trouble correctly seeing the ear canal as the light was obscured by his ten gallon hat.

[Bruce Lindfield]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

Oh, I would have thought you'd be just the type to read it!

How dare you sir!


I am a life-long Guardian reader - on my Daddy's knee!!

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Your more of a high class reader?

Sun?

Daily Star?