The first story is how my Granddad nearly died of bowel cancer when they almost failed to catch it because they thought it was "something" else and didn't want to check. He ended up needing part of his intestines removed and now needs to use a bag...which they told us if they "had just gotten to it sooner" he wouldn't have needed one.
He also died on the operating table but they brought him back.
And during his recovery they gave him too much morphine and nearly killed him.
The second story is when my dad broke his finger, he had to wait 4 days with a broken finger to see a specialist and after he saw the specialist they set his finger wrong and it now doesn't work.
And finally the third story.
My grandma had a (what we thought was) heart attack and had to wait nearly 40 mins for an ambulance while me and my granddad had to answer useless questions to see if she "needed" one or not.
Btw she was pale, disorientated, unable to speak properly and I had to bring her into the living room after she had a fit.
After the medics came, by this point she was doing a little better (if it had been an actual heart attack I think she would have died) and they took her blood pressure and stuff and said she was "fine" and that she didn't need to go to the hospital...at which point me and my granddad INSISTED that she go to the hospital.
So she get's taken to the hospital and it turns out she had internal bleeding close to her heart which is what caused her fit, if she stayed home like the idiot medics said she would have died.
Bonus story: My Grandma fell into a water mains grate (the little square ones) that some council builders had left open when she was 16, she broke her ankle and they set it wrong and the bones fused...she's had to use two walking sticks her whole life because of that.
And there you go, that's my set of horror stories.
There's more but I've likely forgotten them as time went on because as a child you don't remember the stuff adults talk to each other about at the table.
But I lived through all 3 of those stories.
I don't have anything to compare the first two with, but for the third story, in the US it would've been "Ambulance shows up within 5 minutes and rushes her to the emergency room and you get a bill for a few thousand dollars afterward."
But I also don't have insurance so I don't know what most peoples' bill would look like.
Instant prison with long years on the time with no chance at parole for a certain length of time. That is if they were not given something to add it to life in prison.
Second: Losing medical license.
third:
They would have been tried for some serious stuff.
Could you share the stories?
Sure, they're all family related.
The first story is how my Granddad nearly died of bowel cancer when they almost failed to catch it because they thought it was "something" else and didn't want to check. He ended up needing part of his intestines removed and now needs to use a bag...which they told us if they "had just gotten to it sooner" he wouldn't have needed one. He also died on the operating table but they brought him back. And during his recovery they gave him too much morphine and nearly killed him.
The second story is when my dad broke his finger, he had to wait 4 days with a broken finger to see a specialist and after he saw the specialist they set his finger wrong and it now doesn't work.
And finally the third story. My grandma had a (what we thought was) heart attack and had to wait nearly 40 mins for an ambulance while me and my granddad had to answer useless questions to see if she "needed" one or not. Btw she was pale, disorientated, unable to speak properly and I had to bring her into the living room after she had a fit. After the medics came, by this point she was doing a little better (if it had been an actual heart attack I think she would have died) and they took her blood pressure and stuff and said she was "fine" and that she didn't need to go to the hospital...at which point me and my granddad INSISTED that she go to the hospital.
So she get's taken to the hospital and it turns out she had internal bleeding close to her heart which is what caused her fit, if she stayed home like the idiot medics said she would have died.
Bonus story: My Grandma fell into a water mains grate (the little square ones) that some council builders had left open when she was 16, she broke her ankle and they set it wrong and the bones fused...she's had to use two walking sticks her whole life because of that.
And there you go, that's my set of horror stories. There's more but I've likely forgotten them as time went on because as a child you don't remember the stuff adults talk to each other about at the table. But I lived through all 3 of those stories.
Yeah dude, it's shit. Every government led project like this ends up as a useless corrupt money sink.
I don't have anything to compare the first two with, but for the third story, in the US it would've been "Ambulance shows up within 5 minutes and rushes her to the emergency room and you get a bill for a few thousand dollars afterward."
But I also don't have insurance so I don't know what most peoples' bill would look like.
That's still better than death.
First one:
Instant prison with long years on the time with no chance at parole for a certain length of time. That is if they were not given something to add it to life in prison.
Second: Losing medical license.
third:
They would have been tried for some serious stuff.
Last one:
Loss of medical license.
That is if they were in the states.
None of that I'm afraid, my grandma got a small amount of money as "compensation" for the leg and that's it.
. . . . . . . I quite literally had a brain fart. I honestly do not know what to say so I won't after this: That system sucks.