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Girl, five, died of asthma attack after GP turned her away

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6 pointslibeclipse4 comments

How different is the UK's National Health Service from the kind of medicine practiced in the United States, or from the kind of medicine practiced in Canada? I'm primarily interested in philosophical differences.

The author of The American Way of Birth [1] was traumatized by her two experiences giving birth in the United States. Her first two children were born in the UK - it was a much more pleasant experience.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=QVqcPwAACAAJ

(note to self - another book with the same title: https://books.google.com/books?id=xqVsAAAAMAAJ )

There are 4 - one each for Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. They're all slightly different.

The English NHS is just about to go through a lot of change because of cuts. The "Sustainability and Transformation Plan" programme will push for a lot more prevention and self care, and less use of hospital treatment.

It's a bit worrying.

If you have an illness and want to see what the English NHS thinks your treatment should be you can check NHS Choices (also available in Spanish because Mexico got the rights to use it so long as they translated it) and NICE.

I'm not sure what you mean by "philosophical differences"?

I'm not sure why this is posted here.

There are lots of problems with the NHS, but this tragic case appears to be about a single bad doctor. I'm surprised at the weakness of the regulatory action. I would have expected some mention of training about collaborative working.

The article does mention a particular problem: colleagues felt unable to challenge this doctor.

There's a lot of work going on in the NHS to tackle this problem. There's "graded assertiveness" which is being pushed pretty hard at the moment.

The posting of the story seems like a duplicitous barb against single-payer healthcare that almost the entire civilized world enjoys. Un/fortunately, both DJT and Sanders are both suggesting single-payer with private optional extras is the way forward. Also un/fortunately, anyone whom watched John Oliver this Sunday knows high-risk pools need 100x's more funding to prevent mankini crack from showing and that placeholder proposals are the new "we don't have a fucking plan despite having 8 years to get ready."

John Oliver on ACA https://youtu.be/YEGpriv2TAc

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