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DISGUSTED Andrew Cowper refused to have knee surgery after docs said there could be a dead RAT in the operating theatre.

Andrew, 19, walked out after a consultant apologised for the stench of rotting rodent and assured him staff were trying to find the corpse.

 

Disgrace ... hospital

Disgrace ... hospital

 

The teenager, who had waited 11 months for the knee op, said: “He said the smell didn’t represent a health risk but I was appalled.

“I asked him, ‘If you were me would you have the operation?’

 

“He looked at me and said ‘no’, so I decided there and then I wasn’t going to go ahead.

“If there was one dead rat there could have been others rotting nearby.”

The dead rat was found later in the roof of another part of the hospital, away from the operating theatres.

Andrew, of Welwyn Garden City, Herts, had damaged a cruciate knee ligament playing footie.

He turned up for surgery at the town’s Queen Elizabeth II hospital on Monday and waited several hours before he was told about the rodent.

A spokesman said the hospital would re-schedule Andrew’s surgery.

j.troup@the-sun.co.uk

 

This is Government supplied medical care.

He had to wait 11 months for a knee surgery.

There was a dead rat in the hospital.

It had been dead a while because they could smell it rotting.

They would have gone through with the surgery even though the room was not clean.

Nobody thought to look for the dead animal?

He waited several hours which means they probably did other surgeries in that same unclean room.

And you want the US Government to do the same here?

 

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Meb452m read my blog
Mar 7, 2008 | 8:42 PM

zebert I like this post. Just think Hillary has already stated that if you're not willing to buy into the " Hillary National Care Plan " she is willing to have your wages garnished. She hasn't been able to project any costs for this FINE undertaking of her's as well.

zbert read my blog
Mar 7, 2008 | 9:03 PM

Look at the plan in Massachusetts. That is how that works, but they call it "fines".

sensiblejoe read my blog
Mar 7, 2008 | 10:27 PM

Got news for you, zbert. The same thing happens right here in private health care. It's not a problem of public health care vs. private health care -- it's a matter of people not being professional and doing their jobs with the patient, rather than profit or cutting corners, in mind. Of course, one might disagree if one is a shill for greedy doctors and insurance companies...

zbert read my blog
Mar 7, 2008 | 10:35 PM

The difference is that if it's the government, who do you complain to?
If a private hospital is bad, it will be replaced by another one that has better service. That is how the free market works.
The government takes that choice away. It also makes it almost impossible to fire bad workers and doesn't pay them according to their worth. A bad worker gets paid just as much as the best worker.
Doctors would be the same.

BrendaG read my blog view my photos
Mar 7, 2008 | 11:17 PM

For once Z-bert I am going to have to agree with you! Government health care is not a step in the right direction and that is apparent when you look at the way they run other things! This would just be another way for the government to get their hands in yet another "cookie jar".

Personally I like the fact that the hospitals here have to compete with one another, because that means in the end I get better health care. Let the government take control of health care and the plague will back for sure amongst other things!!!

BrendaG read my blog view my photos
Mar 7, 2008 | 11:19 PM

We do have a problem with hospitals right now in the private health care industry with the MRSA thing! I can only imagine that if the government took over things would be 1,000 times worse!

Meb452m read my blog
Mar 8, 2008 | 12:01 AM

zbert, I'm not going to do any in depth argueing here but garnishing and fines are two different things. Are the " FINES " you mentioned collected every pay check ? When someone is garnished,the sum is collected on every pay period. Granted you might have already known this, but you seem to have bristled at the mention of Hillary in a possibly unfavorable light ? Obama and his statement that he will have "National Heath Care" within his first year in office is bogus as well, as a President cannot enact that alone. Could it be a coincidence that they are both Democrats ? No !

Meb452m read my blog
Mar 8, 2008 | 12:08 AM

As far as the Massachusets plan, Romney wasn't trying to " SELL " that nationwide. So you'd have to consider the local voters and health care providers. Although this states legislators screwed the public resurrecting Nelson's fraudulent " NO FAULT PLAN " Mon vechicle insurance. The voters should have demanded a reforendum, and set Nelson to the curb as well !

Meb452m read my blog
Mar 8, 2008 | 12:08 AM

As far as the Massachusets plan, Romney wasn't trying to " SELL " that nationwide. So you'd have to consider the local voters and health care providers. Although this states legislators screwed the public resurrecting Nelson's fraudulent " NO FAULT PLAN " Mon vechicle insurance. The voters should have demanded a reforendum, and set Nelson to the curb as well !

Meb452m read my blog
Mar 8, 2008 | 12:09 AM

Crap sorry for the double post !

BornToBeWild read my blog view my photos
Mar 8, 2008 | 2:30 AM

And that's just how our government works...unless you are an illegal or are a big time supporter to their wealthy spending habits, then you will get the red carpet rolled out for yah!

zbert read my blog
Mar 8, 2008 | 8:41 AM

Yes there is a difference. The government or anyone else can garnish your paycheck, but they have to give a reason. Garnishing is the method they use to collect the money.
A fine is the reason they have to garnish your paycheck. Also, calling it a fine implies you are a criminal
I am not a Massachusetts resident so I don't know the details, but I do know there are a lot of very unhappy people in Massachusetts.
What difference does it make how often the money is collected? It's the same affect, They are forcing people to pay for something.

zbert read my blog
Mar 8, 2008 | 8:51 AM

Obama, Hillary And McCain are all talking about some kind of gorvenment supplied health care.
Although it has some success stories, Government health care is failing everywhere it is. There are many hospitals and doctors who are dropping out of government systems. They will only take patients who have nongovernment methods of payment because the government doesn't pay enough or on time.

FlaNative read my blog view my photos
Mar 8, 2008 | 10:19 AM

If you think government healthcare is a good idea, just take a look at the VA!!

Mater01 read my blog view my photos
Mar 8, 2008 | 4:58 PM

Placing anything in the governments hands is giving them full control! Why give up our control because they talk big at first then ALWAYS slams you later, lead in for the kill! We don't need them to start gaining more and more control over us, that's like calling the sheep to the wolves! Once the people start becoming stupid and allow the government more control when they clearly can't take care of what they are suppose to already then we can hang any kind of freedom and United America decrease because of the people being sucked in slowly, step by step! Once it's gone...it's gone!

DaytonaFrank read my blog view my photos
Mar 8, 2008 | 11:58 PM

I think if doctors were working to save your life, you would not care about rats, or the smell of thier dead bodies.

DaytonaFrank read my blog view my photos
Mar 9, 2008 | 12:13 AM

If you had the option to walk away, that is different.

zbert read my blog
Mar 9, 2008 | 3:10 AM

DF, are you saying you favor government supplied medical care?

shadows read my blog
Mar 9, 2008 | 10:42 AM

"Who do you complain to" is a good question which applies to both private and public. Hospital administrators are good at ignoring and/or covering up problems.....maybe that is why they get paid the big bucks.

Most long term residents in an area are aware of the hospitals to go to and the ones to avoid, yet the government oversight continues to be lacking in the enforcement area. In addition the government often will bend to the desires of the medical establishment and not allow new hospitals to be built that would provide competition for some of those "undesirable" hospitals.

The terms "public and private" have become blurred in this country. Who is in charge? .....is a good question.

zbert read my blog
Mar 9, 2008 | 11:48 AM

Government oversight has always been lacking.
It usually is strongest against the ones who are honestly trying to compete in the free market.
There are many organizations and companies that do oversight outside of government. They are almost always more trustworthy than the government.
The way people normally complain about service is to go to a competitor. The company can correct the problems or go out of business.
If the health care is supplied by of paid for by the government, it will be a monopoly. There will be NO choice.

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I am a home-based Cruise Agent. I am a long time Libertarian from Babylon, Long Island. Got tired of the lies and dirty tricks of the Demopublicans and Republicrats. I beleive the Constitution was put in place to chain up the Federal Government. The Bill of Rights should be called the Bill of NO Rights. It clearly says what the Federal Government has NO right to do. If you ignore a part of the Constitution without an ammendment, that makes you a traitor, especially if you are an elected official. Anyone elected to the Federal Government takes an oath to Protect and Defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States, not the government, country or people. If you don't defend the Constitution, there is no United States. Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. They were written by very wise people.

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