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July 19, 2007
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“Woman dies waiting for brain scans”
Telegraph (London, UK), by Sophie Borland
A high-flying television producer died from a suspected epileptic fit while waiting for vital brain scans on the NHS. /snip/ Miss Price, from Notting Hill, west London, had begged a junior A&E doctor for anti-seizure drugs but had been told they could only be prescribed by a neurologist. Two days earlier she had visited a specialist at Charing Cross hospital and was told she would have to wait six weeks for a brain scan.
Posted by Post Scripts at July 19, 2007 11:15 PM
Comments
This is beyond sad and it happens far too often. But, we're headed this way unless we can come up with an affordable way to get health insurance in the private sector.
Posted by: Jack Lee at July 21, 2007 01:08 PM
...unless we can come up with an affordable way to get health insurance in the private sector.
Yep and the beauty of the private sector is that we don't have to "come up with a way." the only thing we have to do is get government out of the way and let the market work.
What some of our little friends don't get is that when an individual must spend for his own healthcare and insurance the market must find a way to meet his demand and still make a profit. this provides the perfect push pull incentive to keep costs down and come up with creative ways to make services available and affordable.
It's a no brainer if ever there was one.
Posted by: Tina at July 21, 2007 04:01 PM