Bureaucrats Deny Medical Care to Smoker

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Doctors refuse to fix builder's broken ankle unless he quits smoking

By CHRIS BROOKE - More by this author » Last updated at 07:40am on 14th September 2007
Comments (22) A man with a broken ankle is facing a lifetime of pain because a Health Service hospital has refused to treat him unless he gives up smoking.
John Nuttall, 57, needs surgery to set the ankle which he broke in three places two years ago because it did not mend naturally with a plaster cast.
Doctors at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro have refused to operate because they say his heavy smoking would reduce the chance of healing, and there is a risk of complications which could lead to amputation.

Cool Conservative Talk Radio Host -- Laura Ingraham

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Defeat is Sweet -- S-CHIP Veto Override Fails!!

Congress' attempt to override President Bush veto of the Socialized Medicine bill known as S-CHIP has failed and our health care system is the better for it.

Socialized Medical Hygiene Standards

http://www.tinyminds.net/?p=462


Dentist guilty of urinating in surgery sink
LONDON (Reuters) - A British dentist was found guilty Thursday of urinating in his surgery sink and using dental tools meant for patients to clean his fingernails and ears.
A medical tribunal said it was satisfied the evidence showed 51-year-old Alan Hutchinson, who “routinely” did not wear gloves or wash his hands, had risked the health of “himself, staff and patients” for more than 28 years.

Brits Pull Own Teeth in Socialized System

This is what Hillary Clinton wants to impose on the US. No thanks!!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/15/england.dentists/index.html

FTA:Some English people have resorted to pulling out their own teeth because they cannot find -- or cannot afford -- a dentist, a major study has revealed.Six percent of those questioned in a survey of 5,000 patients admitted they had resorted to self-treatment using pliers and glue, the UK's Press Association reported.

England has a two-tier dental care system with some dentists offering publicly subsidized treatment through the National Health Service and others performing more expensive private work.But more than three-quarters of those polled said they had been forced to pay for private treatment because they had been unable to find an NHS dentist. Almost a fifth said they had refused dental treatment because of the cost.

One respondent in Lancashire, northern England, claimed to have extracted 14 of their own teeth with a pair of pliers. In Liverpool, one of those collecting data for the survey interviewed three people who had pulled out their own teeth in one morning.

S-CHIP Vetoed!! Hooray!!

Thankfully, president Bush has vetoed this attempt at socialized medicine. Prepare for the onslaught of accusations of republicans as heartless, greedy, selfish, bigoted, hateful, evil, etc.

Thank you Mr. President for doing the right thing!

UK Govt Run Health Care Says 'No'

For those of you who think the Europeans and Canadians have it right because their government-run, medical monopolies control health care, think again...

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Doctors refuse to fix builder's broken ankle unless he quits smoking
By CHRIS BROOKE - More by this author »

Last updated at 07:40am on 14th September 2007

Comments (22)

A man with a broken ankle is facing a lifetime of pain because a Health Service hospital has refused to treat him unless he gives up smoking.

John Nuttall, 57, needs surgery to set the ankle which he broke in three places two years ago because it did not mend naturally with a plaster cast.

Doctors at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro have refused to operate because they say his heavy smoking would reduce the chance of healing, and there is a risk of complications which could lead to amputation.