The so-called NHS

Soulstarr · (#1 (**permalink**))

A couple of days ago, I heard a story on the news about a man who visited his doctor37 times complaining of back pain. His pain was dismissed as a kidney stone and he was virtually ignored. When they finally took notice of him and opened him up they ralised he had cancer, which by this point was so far advanced, that it had spread throughout his entire body.

For years, I keep being told we musn't complain about the NHS because it's "free" and its a system that no other country has. My argument is this. What is a point of such a service which in my book is NOT free, when we hear storys like this? A lot of people who work for the NHS work their backsides off to do their job properly but there are clearly some people working in hospitals who are utterly incompetant. My partner has just found out that he has to have surgery on his knee, be on crutches for 4 weeks, and can't play sports agin. Ever. All because of this same incompetance. It took 5 health care "professionals" to come to 3 different conclusions as to what the issue was. Had people done their jobs properly, this wouldn't be happening.

I can't understand where taxpayers money is going if these sorts of mistakes are being made because it seems to me that it wouldn't take much effort the prevent them.