Healthcare Horror File
[W]hen experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Remember The Lessons of The United Kingdom
"Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections"
Telegraph (U.K.) | August 2, 2009 | Laura Donnelly |
Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned. The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known. Instead the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is ordering doctors to offer patients remedies like acupuncture and osteopathy. Specialists fear tens of thousands of people, mainly the elderly and frail, will be left to suffer excruciating levels of pain or pay as much as £500 each for private treatment. (Read more)
Remember The Lessons of Canada
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