Socialized Medicine And The National Health Death Service

A 22-year old British woman went to her free general practitioner doctor to get free treatment for her severe headaches. She was told – for free – that her headaches were the result of stress. She kept going to the GP and kept being told – for free – that it was just stress. For eleven months she was told the same thing. The GP finally realized something might be amiss and scheduled an urgent MRI for her. 13 weeks into the wait for the urgent MRI, she collapsed and died, killed by the undiagnosed brain tumor that had been there all along.

A woman who had complained to her GP of severe headaches for almost a year collapsed and died of an undiagnosed brain tumor.

Jennifer Bell, 22, had been told she was suffering from stress but after months of illness had finally been referred to a neurologist.

She then faced a 13-week wait before a 'relatively urgent' MRI scan could be carried out.

Three days before the long awaited appointment she collapsed at home and died later in hospital.

Her parents, Colin and Joyce Bell, want to know why Jennifer's MRI referral was logged only as 'relatively urgent'.

Yesterday at an inquest in Norwich, Coroner William Armstrong agreed that an early scan would have led to much faster intervention.

Jennifer, of Thorpe End, Norwich, developed severe headaches, nausea, a stiff neck and diarrhoea in August 2005.

Her health became so poor she gave up her job as a passenger service agent at Norwich airport.

She visited her GP for the first time on November 4, 2005.

Between then and April 10, 2006, she had five GP appointments. She also had six physiotherapy sessions.

That's that "early intervention" that advocates of socialized medicine proudly tout as how all those gobs of money will be saved. That's the kind of "free" health care you can expect.

Still think socialized medicine is a ginger peachy swell idea?

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