Fury wrote:Bryan Benn wrote:truchas wrote:Another resounding success of the UK free health care program. foangryweasel approves.Yet because midwives don't have time to sit with women in early labour for more than a few minutes at most, we are encouraged to do the next best thing.
We offer them strong painkilling drugs such as pethidine or diamorphine - which is a form of heroin.
Drugs keep the mother nice and quiet which, of course, suits staff.
Welcome to the modern NHS maternity ward. A world of shoddy practice, poor hygiene standards and a shocking disregard for patients' individual needs.
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The UK system is not perfect. And the downsides do get a lot of bad publicity these days, such is the thirst of the media to find any big UK organisation to knock down. Such is life.
But our National Health Service does have a great deal going for it. At least so far as my own rather extensive personal experiences of it are concerned.
Don't worry Bryan, no of the critics here will listen to you. What do you know anyway? You only live there and have seen the system first hand. I've read similar criticism here about the "socialist" healthcare here in Canada.
Cheers my friend.
Excellent, most excellent! Keep it up guys; I love hearing firsthand from people who live in a system that works, covers everyone, and isn't bankrupting the country.
Keep it comin'.
Good health to all, for some of us can't afford otherwise.