Whatever you do, don’t fall into the hands of the British health care system. If you make it past the bureaucrats, and the slacker doctors/nurses/ambulance drivers don’t get you, if you manage to not catch an antibiotic-resistant infection… the runnign gang fights might do you in. According to the Telegraph:
Nearly 170,000 violent incidents take place in England’s NHS hospitals each year, data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed.
Labour’s laws on 24-hour drinking are being blamed for alcohol-fuelled violence in accident and emergency departments in particular.
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Some hospital A & E departments have been described as “war zones” on a typical Friday or Saturday night.
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Shadow Health Minister Mike Penning said the figures showed the Government’s promises to tackle violence within the health service to be “worthless”.
What a Shadow Health Minister may look like:
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Want to see a fun one?
http://opinion-forum.com/index/2009/11/doctors-on-strike/
I was rebuked by two separate people for listening to fear-mongering fox news… despite the fact that there was not a single link to fox in the entire article. I was also told that the things I’d said about the Candian system were a bunch of lies… despite the fact that the link in the point about Canada directed one to a Candian publication. I also stated that I would be happy to give anyone who asked the list of articles I had read and the research I had done to date. Want to guess how many requests I’ve had so far?
You may well know this already, so apologies if so, but a Shadow Minister is Her Majesty’s Loyal Oppposition’s (Conservative at the moment, hopefully not for much longer!) spokesperson on whatever – they have a complete Shadow Cabinet (sounds even more sinister!) !
However, I agree, the lack of gratitude of some people to those trying to help them is appalling – the NHS patched me up pretty well after the two times that I was mugged!
Grif
I think you have to be careful of hyperbole!
Whilst it is true in certain districts or neighbourhoods issues of law and order or healthcare services are particularly bad, it doesn’t reflect across the entire system.
It would be like a Brit assuming the whole of the USA is like Compton in LA, or some of the ghettos in Miami, Houston or some other such hellish American City. Are the states of New England or dustbowl counties also in a grip of urban post apocalyptic nightmares?
Your still more than likely shot in a school, mall, office or US Army base than the equivilent situation in the UK (ok, you might want to stay away from German schools!) or even a Hospital!
> It would be like a Brit assuming the whole of the USA is like Compton in LA
From what I’ve seen out of European media… that seems to be the general impression.
> Are the states of New England or dustbowl counties
Dustbowl? That was seventy years ago.
> …also in a grip of urban post apocalyptic nightmares?
Only the ones that are wholly owned by the Democrats (such as Detroit or DC).
> Your still more than likely shot in a school, mall, office or US Army base than the equivilent situation in the UK
Yeah, but you’re more likely to be gassed to death or firebombed or shot in the head and buried in a mass grave in Europe than the US. I’ll take Americas increased individual crime rate to Europes bouts of genocide, especially given our (currently) superior health care system.
Maybe not for much longer, now that the house has passed the bill. I once read a blog entry that essentially said “Americans have the best health care infrastructure in place, so they have the best shot at making a socialized system work” The little idiot didn’t seem to realize that the reason we have the best health care infrastructure in place is precisely because we had never tried to make socialized health care work.