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Socialized Medicine Director Dies After Waiting Nine Months for Operation

By Selwyn Duke

It’s a bit like a supermarket manager dying of starvation or a bottled-water distributor dying of thirst: In the U.K., a former National Health Service (NHS) director died because she was forced to wait for medical care — at her own hospital. The Daily Mail reports:

Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.

But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery.

Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust — the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.

He said: "I don't really know why she died. I did not get a reason from the hospital. We all want to know for closure. She got weaker and weaker as she waited and operations were put off."

Not to be cruel, but the reason is simple.

It’s called government-run health care.

Read the rest here.

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2 responses to “Socialized Medicine Director Dies After Waiting Nine Months for Operation”

  1. Pascal Fervor Avatar
    Pascal Fervor

    Selwyn: Your new preview feature flashed on the page momentarily then came back to this blank form on a new page.
    My original post has disappeared. I’m very unhappy and I bet you are too.

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    Pascal Fervor

    This story does not comport with the new morality. It is as if Mrs. Hutchon was deemed non-essential — non-useful, a useless eater as were — for her not to have a higher priority for treatment under the N.I.C.E. guidelines.
    Selwyn: do you know of any writer who has put together a comparison of the traditional moral code with the postmodern one? From what I gather the essential difference is what each code deems is an innocent.
    Some poor patient deemed as brain dead is seen as not innocent because she is stealing scarce resources from fully functioning beings on the planet. So every effort is expended to prevent traditional morality from saving her.
    OTOH, much effort is expended by the husbanders of resources to protect even the most heinous murderer. He is only guilty of harming innocents under the old moral code. In the new moral code he has merely reduced another consumer of scarce resources. “He may yet still be useful, so let’s keep him around.”
    [FYI: the preview function did the same thing as before. This time I kept a copy of what I composed. Sadly, I do not think this version is a good — certainly less subtle — than my first version.]

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