Two issues here
1) the bullshit that ALWAYS occurs in *any* system we build
NHS is huge, ergo more bloat, more places for scum to hide, etc
as I've noted elsewhere, one issue that conspires, literally, to make such worse, is that inept, criminals, etc in systems go out of their way to push out the decent ones, due ot jealousy, fear of exposure etc
2) Yes, the british medical establishment, that is for doctors, is Victorian, arrogant, smug, self righteous, know it all know nothings.
One reason Dr John Bodkin Adam's mass murders were covered up was because the BMA was threatening to leave the NHS!
Adams, and many other private doctirs knew/know the "rich and famous" who've had illegal abortions, sexually trasmitted diseases, child abuse cover ups, given drugs illegally, and so on.
It's "Jobs for the Sick and twisted boys"
Of course, not all docs are bastards, from experience I'd say 1/3rd are genuinely great, 1/3rd are just "coasting" and 1/3rd are incompetant, bigots, scumbags or worse.
Was a fantastic doc here who helped me, only one who did, he was even filmed because of his skill at
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great just f'ing GREAT I can't even think of the word for....working out what is wrong with a patient, OMG I HATE THIS ILLNESS! tkaing my health was bad neough but wrecking my memory is obscene *
sigh, anyway he was great, but because he was a Moslem of Iranian parents etc he got crap, apparently not just from the local low lifes but I suspect from other docs.
And American relatives have experiences of bad issues there, too.
As noted for many years, grossly or criminally negligent docs would move state as there wasn't a national system of tracking doctors.
Shell,
I've explained before how one doc's incompetance cost me the guy who was more of a father than my actual one.
Plus all the other crap I've seen from 'em.
And one had sexually molested my mum and two other ladies who told me of such over the years, the doc thought he could just fondle them when naked doing medical exams and make lewd suggestions/desires and it was ok! ****** creep! he got away with it because he was the "senior partner" a minister of the curch and a psychiatrist as well.
you know how it goes, "
Women are just lying sluts, horny and make up stories like that but oh no I never touched them!" (that's how they brush aside such accusations) Grrrr!!
See the current scandal about Jimmy Saville. Well there's a surprise, not!!! Ugh!!
EDIT
"Diagnosis", gawd damn took me hours to remember that word