"Just go home and walk it off, you'll be fine"

We just can't wait for British-style nationalized health care to be imposed upon us here in America, so that when we present at a government hospital like the one in East Lancashire, England after a fall from a bicycle, we can have a simple X-ray and be diagnosed as having two crushed lumbar vertebrae, and despite standard protocol for such injuries subsequently merely sent home on crutches with pain medication, despite the very real threat of paralysis with such an injury, which is more properly treated with spinal immobilization until the damaged structures can be thoroughly evaluated via MRI or CT to rule out the danger of nerve involvement.

Of course, those exams cost money, which government healthcare bureaucrats are always trying to save more of, regardless of the potential harm to patients. That's presumably why this English man didn't receive the care he should have gotten.

"Days later, Mr. [Peter] Johnson went to his follow-up appointment at Burnley General Hospital's [a different clinic from the original one; the incompetent doctors were at Royal Blackburn Hospital, although there was nothing "royal" about the care Johnson received there] fracture clinic and saw a different consultant who seemed surprised he had been discharged and encouraged to walk." (Emphases mine)

Mr. Johnson is truly fortunate not to have been left a paraplegic by the idiot "specialists" at Royal Blackburn, who of course are still working there, lavishing their negligence and malpractice on yet more unsuspecting British subjects.


On a related subject, we are keeping a close watch on developments concerning the swine flu outbreak announced in the past few days. We are assuming that the Messiah will quickly be using this event in some manner to trash our current health-care system and agitate for this sort of incompetent, lowest-common-denominator nanny-care-for-all plan to be forced down our own throats. After all, as good ol' White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel always cynically says,

"Rule 1: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste; but what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

It requires scaring the peasants out of their wits in order to fool them into turning over more and more control over their daily lives to our Dear Leader, because otherwise his socialistic proposals would be laughed out of the room.