Healthcare

[Mike Schatner]

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8350350-181/petaluma-man-suspected-of-aiding?artslide=0

and now he is going to be tried for manslaughter. this country is hell

There are all sorts of wrong with that situation. Having pain from a hysterectomy for two decades sounds a little off. Her nausea and constipation were a direct result of taking Opioids. The doctors that prescribed her Opioids for all those years should be taken to task.

Sounds like she was covered by Medicaid but the new doctors would not prescribe Opioids. There is an effort to reduce Opioid use in the US with over 100 Opioid related deaths every day. It also sounds like she may have been offered help to detox but she refused help. This is just another tragic Opioid epidemic story.

BTW – he would possibly get charged with manslaughter in numerous other countries as well. So I guess the world is hell.

 

[Eboue]

where did you go to medical school

 

[Mike Schatner]

where did you go to medical school

Every evening on the sofa for the last 30+ years. Living with a medical professional and educator that likes to talk as its downsides.

 

[Eboue]

its great that you are an expert on literally every subject

 

[esmufc07]

Tax rises needed 'to prevent NHS misery'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44230033

The Tories treatment and underfunding of the NHS since 2010 is a disgrace. No doubt they will try and push for more privatisation soon.

I utterly despise our government

 

[Eboue]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/25/north-carolina-rural-hospitals-closing-vidant-health

america is a shithole country

 

[Mike Schatner]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/25/north-carolina-rural-hospitals-closing-vidant-health

america is a shithole country

Hospitals close in the UK as well. You can't keep an old nonviable facility open. Belhaven has eleven hospitals within 40 miles.

 

[Eboue]

once again mike is right and the guardian and the people who actually live there are wrong

 

[Eboue]

if only the editors of the guardian had googled for 30 seconds like mike did they would have realized that this guy whose wife died was lying about the location of hospitals to pull off a master con

 

[berbatrick]

Hospitals close in the UK as well. You can't keep an old nonviable facility open. Belhaven has eleven hospitals within 40 miles.

The byline is Belhaven, wheich does not mean the person described lives there. The description in the article is, "single-story home among the loblollies of Hyde County". I looked up Hyde County and found that it was quite big and it might take 1-2 hrs to cross it, depending on the points you choose.
For example, I picked a random spot and found that the closest hospital is 1hr 9 mins away.

I then looked at your map and realised that there was not a single hospital within the couty, and the closest one (Vidant Beaufort/Outer Banks) could be 90+ mins away.

 

[Eboue]

not to mention its easy to figure out where these people lived by reading the article.

Pungo district hospital was 47 miles west of their house, in Belhaven, and had served the county since 1949

Seven miles into the frantic drive with Po, Barry came to an intersection with NC Highway 94, the only road that crosses the 40,000-acre Lake Mattamuskeet.

then you could simply type in hospital and see this

which is confirmed in the article

He’s 64 years old and the closest hospital is more than an hour away, a distance he came to understand too damn well on the day she needed help.

in conclusion, feck off

 

[Eboue]

do you wake in the morning thinking "everyone is stupid except for me. i must fact check every thing anyone posts and constantly delegitimize the events that other people lived through"


its pyschotic

 

[Rado_N]

 

[Mike Schatner]

The byline is Belhaven, wheich does not mean the person described lives there. The description in the article is, "single-story home among the loblollies of Hyde County". I looked up Hyde County and found that it was quite big and it might take 1-2 hrs to cross it, depending on the points you choose.
For example, I picked a random spot and found that the closest hospital is 1hr 9 mins away.

I then looked at your map and realised that there was not a single hospital within the couty, and the closest one (Vidant Beaufort/Outer Banks) could be 90+ mins away.

They lived 47 mile east of the Pungo District hospital which was in Belhaven. That would put them some where near Stumpy Point on the map above. The Outbanks Hospital is about 33 miles form there so even when Pungo was open there was a closer hospital.

Many people in rural areas of the UK are 30+ miles form an hospital. Lots of cottage hospitals have closed over the years leaving communities without an hospital. Its just part of life. You live somewhere remote you often don't get the benefits of hospitals and other facilities nearby.

To use stuff like that to judge a country is beyond all common sense and reason.

 

[Eboue]

go away

 

[Mike Schatner]

do you wake in the morning thinking "everyone is stupid except for me. i must fact check every thing anyone posts and constantly delegitimize the events that other people lived through"


its pyschotic

Do you wake up every morning to trawl the internet and social media for anti police and negative articles about everything?

 

[Eboue]

i read and post things that i think are interesting. do you wake up every morning to find gay porn to post when you have your inevitable meltdown

 

[4bars]

How anyone can doubt that diet and obesity has impact in healthcare? probably is one of the majors impact in any healthcare system. If you are obese, you are more likely to have heart problems. Deaths from heart problems is one of the top ones in any country, and obesity has a direct impact. Also, diabetes, joint erosion, etc...Diet has impact in cancer and other major diseases. Any healthcare system spends billions in prevention and consequences of a bad diet and obesity, and of course, it has an impact in life expectancy

 

[Mike Schatner]

i read and post things that i think are interesting.

That is fine but to use edge case stories, that happen in every country BTW, to declare the US a "shithole country" is a bonkers. Hospitals have always closed down as population centers change.

 

[Eboue]

the us is a shithole country

 

[langster]

where did you go to medical school

its great that you are an expert on literally every subject

once again mike is right and the guardian and the people who actually live there are wrong

if only the editors of the guardian had googled for 30 seconds like mike did they would have realized that this guy whose wife died was lying about the location of hospitals to pull off a master con

not to mention its easy to figure out where these people lived by reading the article.

then you could simply type in hospital and see this

which is confirmed in the article






in conclusion, feck off

do you wake in the morning thinking "everyone is stupid except for me. i must fact check every thing anyone posts and constantly delegitimize the events that other people lived through"


its pyschotic

Damn I fecking lolled at these. It shouldn't be a funny thread but feck this cheered me up.

Eboobies for poster of the year or lifetime caf award please.

Btw my ex wife is a nurse who trained as a paediatric nurse, surgeon and midwife and I was with her for 18 years and I would never profess to use her achievements or professional knowledge to gain some kind of faux oneupmanship on a fecking football forum.

 

[Mike Schatner]

Btw my ex wife is a nurse who trained as a paediatric nurse, surgeon and midwife and I was with her for 18 years and I would never profess to use her achievements or professional knowledge to gain some kind of faux oneupmanship on a fecking football forum.

Yet you have a few relatives that supposedly live in the US and you're an expert on the healthcare system there....priceless.

 

[Carolina Red]

My wife works in the healthcare system here currently. So...

 

[Adisa]

 

[Nikhil]

 

[Grinner]

Sadly we've lost Schatner so this thread isn't happening like it used to.

 

[berbatrick]

Sadly we've lost Schatner so this thread isn't happening like it used to.

I can't believe I spent 20 mins looking at google maps because I got angry online.

 

[Eboue]

he was such a dipshit

 

[Eboue]

This is the part where mike would Google what an ambulance costs

 

[Eboue]

Read the comments too. So many people have stories. When I pinched a nerve in my back a few years ago I got quotes from 3 ambulance companies before picking the cheapest ($700 for a 3.5 mile trip after my insurance covered some).

 

[Raoul]

5:18 onwards - Perez tap dances when asked about single payer. Ominous signs for the Dems going forward imo.

 

[Eboue]

This is the part where mike would Google what an ambulance costs

i found mike

 

[VorZakone]

Read this thread. It's nuts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8vzslr/woman_feared_she_couldnt_afford_ambulance_after/

 

[Sigma]

 

[SwansonsTache]

Having to pay to get an ambulance

 

[Eboue]

 

[Carolina Red]

 

[Sandyman]

Ugh! Despicable cnuts!

 

[VorZakone]

Fecking hell...

 

[Carolina Red]

McMaster is putting in jeopardy $2 billion in Medicaid funding by rejecting the $16 million.