1) telegraph is Right wing, and those assclowns want to destroy the NHS
2) Yup, it's a *cultural problem* in the UK, not because of the NHS, but because of our stupid class culture and grossly out of date, undemocratic bullshit system.
See, thing is, GPs have a pretty damn nice racket going, if you want a signature for a passport, firearm licence or several other things, you need a GP's signature, which they *charge money for*!
http://www.shakespearesurgery.co.uk/Shakespeare_Non_NHS_List_Fees.htm
3) in UK doctors are policed by...doctors! The B.M.A., who are desperate to preserve all their cosy little luxuries and "caste system"
I've mentioned the Dr John Bodkin Adams mass murder case (163 vicitms!) many times, even though 1950s it perfectly exposed the vile mentalities then and still existant today in many, that is, the "professional classes are "superior beings" and are above the law.
4) Everyone knows GPs and *consultants* are the biggest damn problem.
consultants are way to often greedy lazy incompetant incredibly arrogant utter BASTARDS
I have seen this myself and, obviously, am very pissed off at them
example:
push my mum in her wheelchair into consultant's office in hospital, so me with ME = half dead from that.
What does the son of a bitch do? wheels my my mum facing into the corner, and says "
That's how women should be treated, seen and not heard!"
afterwards he claimed it had never happened..I was there you sick f****** scumbag!!!
Jebuz :/
5) so it's really a cultural problem, way too many sociopaths, way too many ways they get away with shit "
because we cannot prosecute them,we need doctors!" so they are the "sacred cows" of the "Establishment" :/
and same in different ways, goes on in America. Different culture, thus different and but also similar issues.
I don't know if it has ever been addressed? But US doctors could be struck off, and then merely move state and resume work....
I've mentioned before one asshole surgeon left a junior to do an operation (the junior had never done this operation solo before) on a relative of mine, so the senior could go golfing...with bad results.
Prescription drug abuse is rampant in US because US medical practice has become about..."consumers"...and all sides have part blame in that, large chunk of course being the pharma corps who've turned doctors into drug pushers (please note prescription drug
abuse deaths have vastly outstripped illegal drug deaths, and many other associated problems)
UK to a large extent, "invented" the "ideals/system" of Modern medicine, and thus alas, arrogance, complacency, Victorian attitudes, a perversely incompetant/nepotistic class system have become imbedded in it here...Dickens would have a field day.
thing is we *know* this. it shouldn't be tolerated and a lot of docs should be in jail for negligence.
But at least we *hear* about this.