When you're an emotional sleep deprived pregnant woman who hadnt been sleeping for the week preceeding because of PUPPPs, and then has a caesarean and is an emotional wreck, sweating out the water and pissing bags of saline and not having a fucking clue what to do with a screaming newborn and no one to show me, then all these things were the end of planet Earth, kwim?
Ahh, socialised medicine. At least in the states, you lot have money as an incentive to drive doctors to be good at what they do - the NHS gives no incentives - piss poor pay, crappy conditions, no staff, pressure out the wazoo, its little wonder people are shitty to you, kwim?
Wow, I've always been terrified of pregnancy, but now you've totally convinced me I'd never have survived it. You have my utmost admiration for going through all that, and then being brave enough to make that kind of sacrifice all over again.
As for having a lot of money as an incentive ... well, some of us do. And then there are the millions who just can't afford any health care at all. It would be nice to have options. The two friends who helped me out during my illness both pay for private health care because the NHS is so bad, but they always have that as a backup. And the people who can't afford to pay at least have some form of health care, crappy as it is. Not everybody in the two hospitals I stayed at was shitty to me--in fact, those people were in the minority. (My doctor was really good. And, OMG, some of my sub-doctors were gorgeous, like the one who fixed my leaking IV for me. And with British accents too! Too bad I looked and felt so awful.) And I like it that they let me stay so long; I had my gallbladder surgery over here when I got home, and they sent me home only an hour after I woke up; I couldn't even stand up! By contrast, when they thought they were going to have to do an ERCP on me in England, they said that would keep me in the hospital for another whole week! Over here, I was lucky they let me stay overnight with my pancreatitis. But then, neither of those NHS hospitals was on the BBC's "worst" list.
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Ahh, socialised medicine. At least in the states, you lot have money as an incentive to drive doctors to be good at what they do - the NHS gives no incentives - piss poor pay, crappy conditions, no staff, pressure out the wazoo, its little wonder people are shitty to you, kwim?
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As for having a lot of money as an incentive ... well, some of us do. And then there are the millions who just can't afford any health care at all. It would be nice to have options. The two friends who helped me out during my illness both pay for private health care because the NHS is so bad, but they always have that as a backup. And the people who can't afford to pay at least have some form of health care, crappy as it is. Not everybody in the two hospitals I stayed at was shitty to me--in fact, those people were in the minority. (My doctor was really good. And, OMG, some of my sub-doctors were gorgeous, like the one who fixed my leaking IV for me. And with British accents too! Too bad I looked and felt so awful.) And I like it that they let me stay so long; I had my gallbladder surgery over here when I got home, and they sent me home only an hour after I woke up; I couldn't even stand up! By contrast, when they thought they were going to have to do an ERCP on me in England, they said that would keep me in the hospital for another whole week! Over here, I was lucky they let me stay overnight with my pancreatitis. But then, neither of those NHS hospitals was on the BBC's "worst" list.