Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Oh no, this is really disappointing. I'd heard such good things about this film. I only experienced the US health care system as a kid, because I moved to the UK when I was 21 (I am now 35). My parents had a lot of money and good insurance. So I remember big clean hospitals where I'd have my own room, or at most one person to share with. Doctors who took their time with me and didn't seem rushed. I was never left waiting anywhere on a trolley. But who knows what would have happened if I'd had any serious health problems over there. None of this helps if people are pushing psych drugs down your throat. Our NHS is underfunded, overstretched. Doctors spend maybe 5 minutes with you, diagnose and prescribe. When I've been in hospital wards, including the maternity ward, I've been lined up in bed like a sausage link in a chain. When I had I was recovering from a Caesarean and I had a catheter attached to me, and the most privacy I got was when I pulled a curtain round my bed. They kept it so hot in there that I couldn't sleep, they closed the window when I opened it. I walked for a while in my bare feet and soon found out that the floor was never clean, and my feet became black on the bottoms. Boy was I glad to get out, I got about an hour's sleep in three days. I've been to the emergency department of the hospital with agonising IBS pains and was left to sit on a trolley for hours while I vomitted into a dish. They gave me drugs that didn't help and eventually sent me home. No one seemed to give a toss. It has to be said that the ideal of the NHS is important. No one should be without health care, or denied treatment because they can't pay. However, the system is dated, and bursting at the seams. Instead of the best care for the rich and no care for the poor, it's mediocre care for everyone here, unless you pay for private care. Fat lot of good we know that does, LOL, unless the provider is a practitioner of alternative medicine. Them's my feelings. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Oh no, this is really disappointing. I'd heard such good things about this film. I only experienced the US health care system as a kid, because I moved to the UK when I was 21 (I am now 35). My parents had a lot of money and good insurance. So I remember big clean hospitals where I'd have my own room, or at most one person to share with. Doctors who took their time with me and didn't seem rushed. I was never left waiting anywhere on a trolley. But who knows what would have happened if I'd had any serious health problems over there. None of this helps if people are pushing psych drugs down your throat. Our NHS is underfunded, overstretched. Doctors spend maybe 5 minutes with you, diagnose and prescribe. When I've been in hospital wards, including the maternity ward, I've been lined up in bed like a sausage link in a chain. When I had I was recovering from a Caesarean and I had a catheter attached to me, and the most privacy I got was when I pulled a curtain round my bed. They kept it so hot in there that I couldn't sleep, they closed the window when I opened it. I walked for a while in my bare feet and soon found out that the floor was never clean, and my feet became black on the bottoms. Boy was I glad to get out, I got about an hour's sleep in three days. I've been to the emergency department of the hospital with agonising IBS pains and was left to sit on a trolley for hours while I vomitted into a dish. They gave me drugs that didn't help and eventually sent me home. No one seemed to give a toss. It has to be said that the ideal of the NHS is important. No one should be without health care, or denied treatment because they can't pay. However, the system is dated, and bursting at the seams. Instead of the best care for the rich and no care for the poor, it's mediocre care for everyone here, unless you pay for private care. Fat lot of good we know that does, LOL, unless the provider is a practitioner of alternative medicine. Them's my feelings. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Oh no, this is really disappointing. I'd heard such good things about this film. I only experienced the US health care system as a kid, because I moved to the UK when I was 21 (I am now 35). My parents had a lot of money and good insurance. So I remember big clean hospitals where I'd have my own room, or at most one person to share with. Doctors who took their time with me and didn't seem rushed. I was never left waiting anywhere on a trolley. But who knows what would have happened if I'd had any serious health problems over there. None of this helps if people are pushing psych drugs down your throat. Our NHS is underfunded, overstretched. Doctors spend maybe 5 minutes with you, diagnose and prescribe. When I've been in hospital wards, including the maternity ward, I've been lined up in bed like a sausage link in a chain. When I had I was recovering from a Caesarean and I had a catheter attached to me, and the most privacy I got was when I pulled a curtain round my bed. They kept it so hot in there that I couldn't sleep, they closed the window when I opened it. I walked for a while in my bare feet and soon found out that the floor was never clean, and my feet became black on the bottoms. Boy was I glad to get out, I got about an hour's sleep in three days. I've been to the emergency department of the hospital with agonising IBS pains and was left to sit on a trolley for hours while I vomitted into a dish. They gave me drugs that didn't help and eventually sent me home. No one seemed to give a toss. It has to be said that the ideal of the NHS is important. No one should be without health care, or denied treatment because they can't pay. However, the system is dated, and bursting at the seams. Instead of the best care for the rich and no care for the poor, it's mediocre care for everyone here, unless you pay for private care. Fat lot of good we know that does, LOL, unless the provider is a practitioner of alternative medicine. Them's my feelings. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 Oh no, this is really disappointing. I'd heard such good things about this film. I only experienced the US health care system as a kid, because I moved to the UK when I was 21 (I am now 35). My parents had a lot of money and good insurance. So I remember big clean hospitals where I'd have my own room, or at most one person to share with. Doctors who took their time with me and didn't seem rushed. I was never left waiting anywhere on a trolley. But who knows what would have happened if I'd had any serious health problems over there. None of this helps if people are pushing psych drugs down your throat. Our NHS is underfunded, overstretched. Doctors spend maybe 5 minutes with you, diagnose and prescribe. When I've been in hospital wards, including the maternity ward, I've been lined up in bed like a sausage link in a chain. When I had I was recovering from a Caesarean and I had a catheter attached to me, and the most privacy I got was when I pulled a curtain round my bed. They kept it so hot in there that I couldn't sleep, they closed the window when I opened it. I walked for a while in my bare feet and soon found out that the floor was never clean, and my feet became black on the bottoms. Boy was I glad to get out, I got about an hour's sleep in three days. I've been to the emergency department of the hospital with agonising IBS pains and was left to sit on a trolley for hours while I vomitted into a dish. They gave me drugs that didn't help and eventually sent me home. No one seemed to give a toss. It has to be said that the ideal of the NHS is important. No one should be without health care, or denied treatment because they can't pay. However, the system is dated, and bursting at the seams. Instead of the best care for the rich and no care for the poor, it's mediocre care for everyone here, unless you pay for private care. Fat lot of good we know that does, LOL, unless the provider is a practitioner of alternative medicine. Them's my feelings. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I'm dissapointed to hear that, but not really surprised. He always seem to tell only three quarters of any story...hmmm...smoke and mirrors.How shrewd. Steph > > Some of you might be interested to learn that in Sicko, > praises Britain's NHS for their new system, in which doctors are paid more > if they can get their patients to quit smoking, lower their blood pressure, > and if they can persuade their patients to undergo mental health > screenings. Interesting, huh? The documentary not only implicitly furthers > the cause of psychiatry, it barely comments on Big Pharma. Instead, it > centres heavily on HMOs- which of course, do need to be dealt with. I was > appalled at how tacitly pushed mental health screening through the > interview with a doctor on the NHS and wonder if anyone else has any > comments about this. > > Jasmine > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I'm dissapointed to hear that, but not really surprised. He always seem to tell only three quarters of any story...hmmm...smoke and mirrors.How shrewd. Steph > > Some of you might be interested to learn that in Sicko, > praises Britain's NHS for their new system, in which doctors are paid more > if they can get their patients to quit smoking, lower their blood pressure, > and if they can persuade their patients to undergo mental health > screenings. Interesting, huh? The documentary not only implicitly furthers > the cause of psychiatry, it barely comments on Big Pharma. Instead, it > centres heavily on HMOs- which of course, do need to be dealt with. I was > appalled at how tacitly pushed mental health screening through the > interview with a doctor on the NHS and wonder if anyone else has any > comments about this. > > Jasmine > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I'm dissapointed to hear that, but not really surprised. He always seem to tell only three quarters of any story...hmmm...smoke and mirrors.How shrewd. Steph > > Some of you might be interested to learn that in Sicko, > praises Britain's NHS for their new system, in which doctors are paid more > if they can get their patients to quit smoking, lower their blood pressure, > and if they can persuade their patients to undergo mental health > screenings. Interesting, huh? The documentary not only implicitly furthers > the cause of psychiatry, it barely comments on Big Pharma. Instead, it > centres heavily on HMOs- which of course, do need to be dealt with. I was > appalled at how tacitly pushed mental health screening through the > interview with a doctor on the NHS and wonder if anyone else has any > comments about this. > > Jasmine > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I'm dissapointed to hear that, but not really surprised. He always seem to tell only three quarters of any story...hmmm...smoke and mirrors.How shrewd. Steph > > Some of you might be interested to learn that in Sicko, > praises Britain's NHS for their new system, in which doctors are paid more > if they can get their patients to quit smoking, lower their blood pressure, > and if they can persuade their patients to undergo mental health > screenings. Interesting, huh? The documentary not only implicitly furthers > the cause of psychiatry, it barely comments on Big Pharma. Instead, it > centres heavily on HMOs- which of course, do need to be dealt with. I was > appalled at how tacitly pushed mental health screening through the > interview with a doctor on the NHS and wonder if anyone else has any > comments about this. > > Jasmine > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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