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<blockquote data-quote="Farfrae" data-source="post: 5537438" data-attributes="member: 778"><p>My friends the NHS link is obviously simplistic - it's intention is to get you thinking, please do.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday I went into hospital to have an Angiogram, where a catheter is inserted into an artery in the groin and guided to the heart, whilst I was awake, to inject dye for an x-ray as part of my journey towards heart surgery (I have a congenital valve defect that was detected by accident by my wife, a doctor, 9 years ago - it has been regularly monitored). The procedure was carried out by a wonderful team of people at Llanelli Hospital here in Wales; there were probably 6 or 7 at the procedure and another 3 or 4 on the ward. The whole team from the Consultant and Registrar to the nurses were women which I thought was the best example of 'girl power' you could have.</p><p></p><p>4 hours afterwards I was allowed home.</p><p></p><p>It is in fact only about 2 weeks since I was told I now need to have heart surgery since then I've had this done yesterday and will be having a CT scan on Monday. This, for any overseas friends, is all free, carried out to world class standards in one of the most cost effective health care systems in the world. Sure an underfunded NHS can be criticised and sure a very small number of mistakes are made but when you are at the sharp end and bump up against people who have the skills and the care to push a catheter towards your heart you know that these are the people we should be championing, not politicians, bankers and celebrities.</p><p></p><p>The fact that this and a potential live saving valve replacement are possible is down to pure science, to the thousands of men and women who have dedicated years of their lives to science and medicine. It has nothing to do with what 'you think, what the man in the pub thinks, what some politician says, what some snake oil salesman says, what some alternative therapist says, what the priest thinks, what uncle Tom Cobley and all thinks'. My continuing survival depends on cold, hard, exhausting science and the dedication of skilful, caring staff.</p><p></p><p>So don't listen to the bulls**t or make assumptions, listen to the people who really know and start to look after your heart, it's the only one you have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farfrae, post: 5537438, member: 778"] My friends the NHS link is obviously simplistic - it's intention is to get you thinking, please do. Yesterday I went into hospital to have an Angiogram, where a catheter is inserted into an artery in the groin and guided to the heart, whilst I was awake, to inject dye for an x-ray as part of my journey towards heart surgery (I have a congenital valve defect that was detected by accident by my wife, a doctor, 9 years ago - it has been regularly monitored). The procedure was carried out by a wonderful team of people at Llanelli Hospital here in Wales; there were probably 6 or 7 at the procedure and another 3 or 4 on the ward. The whole team from the Consultant and Registrar to the nurses were women which I thought was the best example of 'girl power' you could have. 4 hours afterwards I was allowed home. It is in fact only about 2 weeks since I was told I now need to have heart surgery since then I've had this done yesterday and will be having a CT scan on Monday. This, for any overseas friends, is all free, carried out to world class standards in one of the most cost effective health care systems in the world. Sure an underfunded NHS can be criticised and sure a very small number of mistakes are made but when you are at the sharp end and bump up against people who have the skills and the care to push a catheter towards your heart you know that these are the people we should be championing, not politicians, bankers and celebrities. The fact that this and a potential live saving valve replacement are possible is down to pure science, to the thousands of men and women who have dedicated years of their lives to science and medicine. It has nothing to do with what 'you think, what the man in the pub thinks, what some politician says, what some snake oil salesman says, what some alternative therapist says, what the priest thinks, what uncle Tom Cobley and all thinks'. My continuing survival depends on cold, hard, exhausting science and the dedication of skilful, caring staff. So don't listen to the bulls**t or make assumptions, listen to the people who really know and start to look after your heart, it's the only one you have. [/QUOTE]
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