Comments on Dr Rant: By George He's Got it!

Look at Henry Kravis and HCA and then at Boots.......

2008-05-05T19:58:00.000+01:00

Look at Henry Kravis and HCA and then at Boots.....

This morning, HCA, the nation's largest hospital company, announced it would go private in a massive $33 billion leveraged buyout led by Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, and Merrill Lynch.......

Wait until enough people have had a "screening CT"...

2008-05-02T22:38:00.000+01:00

Wait until enough people have had a "screening CT" and sooner or later you'll get a few radiation induced cheeriomas which will need sorting as well

I have seen some of the first effects of the worri...

2008-04-30T18:56:00.000+01:00

I have seen some of the first effects of the worried well accessing investigations at will. Have you come accross "Lifescan" yet. Basically, a CT. It always finds a little something. Then we NHS docs have to look into it at great time and expense. I have only had problems with the poorly written, poorly formatted, unreadable report. Mind you I have only seen 2 well middle aged people. Both had incidentallomas, both needed a shit load of NHS Ix and my time as an inpatient and outpatient. Pah

Dr Sniper

George Monbiot did a good job shining the light to...

2008-04-30T14:50:00.000+01:00

George Monbiot did a good job shining the light to those as in the dark as the contents of Darzi's rectum.

C'mon GPs! Surely there is something you lot can do to stop these Arsey Darzi polyclinics. Think of the numbers of patients that will be turfed to NHS hospitals because of the cock-ups.

What about the worried well and their choice of investigation on demand? Who is going to wipe their fevered brow after the poly exhausted their in-house expertise. Off to the NHS on call doctors they go.

(I'm speaking form experience- a man with achondroplasia and OA knees, which no right minded orthopod in the SouthWest would touch- on account of the non-standard anatomy- went to his local ISTC for a shiny new knee. He ended up in my ward a fortnight later. My boss said he should go back to his ISTC which he couldn't do because he has been 'discharged' without any follow-up.)

his article on 13/3/08 is good too- see www.monbio...

2008-04-30T11:12:00.000+01:00

his article on 13/3/08 is good too- see www.monbiot.com

Only one point of disagreement - Monbiot's item di...

2008-04-30T09:12:00.000+01:00

Only one point of disagreement - Monbiot's item did not require any great intellectual ability (although he may be a clever guy) given the wealth of information that now exists exposing NuLabs true intentions.

No, anybody can see (if they care to read a few newspaper articles, or happen to work for the NHS) that Polyclinics are little more than the latest plank in NuLabs burgeoning privatisation by stealth campaign - following on, as they do, from the disastrous PFIs and ISTCs.

I must admit I did not realise that so many post-op complications were arising from ortho surgery carried by ISTCs, 20% according to Monbiots sources.

Given the complexity of primary care the Polyclinics would probably view a 20% screw-up rate as almost mouth wateringly good ?

Since the PCTs and hospital Trusts are in the pockets of the DoH, I suppose the public will only begin to realise how much vandalism is going on when it starts to affect them in sufficient numbers, either because of lack of access or poor outcomes, (a la ISTCs).

I love your commentary. Fresh, frank, and god so ...

2008-04-29T23:43:00.000+01:00

I love your commentary. Fresh, frank, and god so honest. Our health care system in the states is getting pretty F#$%cked too! I have been in it 25 years. The latest loophole is the sudden pop-up of all these free standing "surgery" centers that are bloody unregulated. You see, the US just doesn't know what to bloody do with them. IN the meantime, the docs are $$$ in collect mode. Where the is a will $$ there is a way!