Greek socialized medicine to the rescue of--- Me.

On Sep 24, 1:13*pm, Oz wrote:
On Sep 24, 7:11*am, Earl Evleth wrote:





About a week ago I was sitting at breakfast in a Greek hotel when suddenly,
an provoked mother of all nose bleeds got me. It was steady and when I
blocked my nostril the blood starting pouring out of the other one and out
of my mouth. *Fortunately I remembered to pinch my nose, the hotel had a
taxi take me to the local emergency room. I walked in still bleeding an
covered with it in shirt. *I did not sit down, the nurses saw me and dragged
me into a room, stuffed something my nose and taped it into place. *I was
cleaned up and left.

Charge?? None. Cost to me was for the taxi trip and and from the clinic..
About $10 total.

Socialized medicine once again. *No charge, no wait.

I bled all over the hotel, but the house dog cleaned that up.

This was my first experience with emergency room care.

You can't generalize with your singular experience. *In general,
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On Sep 24, 6:09 pm, "Mr Q. Z. Diablo"
t the Tasmanian dwarf
born out od incest wrote:
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I've had lots, all due to cuts, scrapes and broken bones. Generally, I've faced
no wait due to having come off a bicycle at speed and they triage me to the top.

The Tamanian runt is a booze hound who habitually pedals his tiny
little tricycle in traffic where he shouldn't be riding it when
crocked.


There's a hint for the young pups - if you have a bicycle accident and end up in
A&E, claim to have come off at over 40km/h and they'll see to you pronto.


"Socialised medicine" - I ****ING LOVE IT

IOW in order to jump the massive Qeues in Australian hospital ERs one
has to lie in order to jump those Qeues so pervasive with those
suffering UHC.

Of course with Leftism lying is endemic to the point they habitually
lie that their political opposition lies all of the time

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/Vladimir_Lenin/]

"A lie told often enough becomes truth"

Vladimir Lenin quotes (Russian Founder of the Russian Communist
Party)

On Sep 24, 6:09 pm, "Mr Q. Z. Diablo"
t the Tasmanian dwarf
born out od incest wrote:

I've had lots, all due to cuts, scrapes and broken bones. Generally, I've
faced
no wait due to having come off a bicycle at speed and they triage me to
the top.

BTW, if you came into a US hospital bleeding like crazy they too would stop
the bleeding.
Emergency room service cannot be refused.

So you like to race at high speeds, causing the public to spend money to fix
you up via higher taxes - you did it to yourself - you should pay.
Brain cancer is one thing. Self inflicted cause is another.
Smoking , drinking, or racing .... is not "society's" fault.
Nor should it pay.

On 26/09/10 14:53, in article , "-
Bobb -" wrote:

Emergency room service cannot be refused.

If you can find one!

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On Sep 26, 11:20*am, Earl Evleth wrote:
On 26/09/10 14:53, in article , "-

Bobb -" wrote:
Emergency room service cannot be refused.

If you can find one!

Google gives a lot of hits on this

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*Decision near on Suburban General emergency room's closing ...
12 Aug 2010 ... An Allegheny County judge could decide today whether to halt
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* * * * *Twin City Hospital closing emergency room, pediatric program - New
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impacted video

why public hospitals are overcrowded.
By impactEDnurse • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: ectopics, **** and
vinegar


Today our emergency department was once again overflowing. Sick
patients waiting to access our care lay on beds spilling into the
corridors, whilst many more inside occupy our beds waiting for a space
to become available in the hospital wards.
This deadly gridlock has become the new normal. And the normal is bad.

Very bad.

Here are some clipped excerpts from a very interesting paper published
by the Jeremy Sammut from the Centre for Independent Studies titled:
Why Public Hospitals Are Overcrowded.

If you are currently working in the Australian health system you might
have some comments to make on Mr Sammuts assessment of the lay of the
hospital land.
You can download the entire paper as a pdf file.

Why Public Hospitals Are Overcrowded.

“Twenty-five years of nationwide cuts to the number of acute public
hospital beds in Australia means our public hospitals are dangerously
overcrowded. In the context of rising demand for admission from an
ageing population, the vast majority of urban public hospitals are
unable to operate at a safe level of 85% bed occupancy.
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received national media coverage when released last November. The
report card detailed new academic research linking overcrowding with
1,500 avoidable deaths per year-more than the national road toll. Not
even national headlines that screamed ‘1,500 die waiting for bed’
generated an appropriate policy response.

Australian and overseas studies overwhelmingly show that the single-
most important cause of public hospital overcrowding, from a technical
perspective,
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