Vocal Minority: Adventures in Government-Run Health (S)care: U.K.'s NHS Denies Cancer Meds to One of Its Own Doctors
Rhetoric:
“In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. Like every system, the National Health Service has problems, but over all it appears to provide quite good care …”
— Paul Krugman, NY Times, August 17, 2009
Reality:
From Saturday’s U.K. Daily Mail [h/t WSJ’s Best of the Web]:
Betrayed by the NHS: Doctor who gave her life to health service is refused vital cancer drugs that could save her
By VANESSA ALLEN
Last updated at 3:29 AM on 1st May 2010
A doctor denied vital cancer treatment said yesterday that she had been betrayed by the NHS.
Becky Smith, 30, has been refused a breakthrough treatment which could prolong her life by up to 20 years.
The drug refusal came after her breast cancer was missed four times.
Without the treatment she may only have 18 months to live, the NHS surgeon has been told.
She said: “I feel so let down. I’ve given my all to the NHS and I could give it another 20 years, doing the work I love. I just need this treatment to give me a fighting chance.”
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