Thursday, June 16, 2011

Who could guess?

Death Panels in Action
Thousands of Elderly Breast Cancer Patients Denied Surgury [sic]in Britain

Elderly women are being denied life-saving breast cancer surgery that is routinely given to younger patients, alarming research reveals.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that death squads operate in socilized health care!
Some doctors look at a patient’s age in their notes – and decide on a treatment plan before they have even met them, experts warn.

Their study, which provides evidence of ageism in the Health Service, found that 90 per cent of breast cancer patients aged 30-50 are offered surgery to remove tumours, compared with 70 per cent of those in their seventies.

Even women in their 50s are less likely than younger patients to have an operation. [continued]



7 comments:

Jess said...

It's only right. Somewhere, there's a bureaucrat that has a friend's son that needs a job. Wasting money on helping old geezers may keep him from poking his friends wife in the future.

BlogDog said...

Surgury?

pdwalker said...

death panels? what death panels? governments are far too compassionate for that.

Anonymous said...

Maybe soon a bright spot in the American economy. Thousands of good paying, government jobs working on Death Panels.

CF in CO

Hodja said...

"Previous estimates claim that 15,000 elderly die prematurely every year because cancer care on the NHS is not as good as that provided elsewhere in Europe and the U.S."

Tell that to Michael Moore.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Surgury [sic]

Anonymous said...

Nah, surjury. Cut and reach a verdict all at once!

The EPA is claiming that X,000 lives will be saved by closing coal burning power plants. But, WTF difference will it make if they all die of breast cancer because it costs $$?
tomw

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