UK hospital tells 83-year-old pensioner who broke arm in two places she is too old for treatment

I live in the Midwest and switched insurance this year, so needed
to find a new primary physician. I picked one who specialized in
sport medicine because I had fallen and wanted to rehab so I
could continue my active lifestyle. I was told by the doctor that,
“At your age, we don’t do anything about that”. I am not even 65,
and certainly young in most ways except chronological number.
I also had an insurance benefit for Therapeutic Massage Therapy
which required a doctor referral. The doctor and I had a heated
conversation because he did not want to refer me because he
thought it was a costly benefit and he inferred I was not worth it.
In spite of his objections, he did give me the referral. The therapy
has made a huge difference to me...I’m back riding my bike and
walking many miles, etc.

Needless to say, I switched doctors. I learned a lesson though,
that ageism is well and alive in our culture, here in the U.S.
I definitely feel even more responsible for my own healthcare.

At the beginning of the year, a friend of mine, in her nineties,
who was very active and involved in her life, was euthanized
with pain meds after a fall. It’s coming to that...it’s not about
quality of life, but some hypothetical “expiration date” we are
living past.

You are joking? NHS Scotland, under the very left SNP, is in a much, much worse state than NHS England.

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NHS (Great Britain's National Health), has a criteria that states procedures are done based on comorbidities, AGE and COST. The VA, right here in this country, also consider AGE in treatment.

Not so here in the US for private insurance (as long as you don't have a PPO)or Medicare. My mom is 96 and has just been referred to a orthopedic oncologist for treatment. That would not have happened in England.

Government run healthcare, or "Medicare for all will mean healthcare for none, is a direct quote from my highly qualified private cardiologist.

Although I go to the VA for some things, I would NEVER let them operate on me. They are at least several years behind in the latest equipment (takes a long time for government contracts to get equipment to the end user). For example, our VA Medical Center didn't have a CT Scanner until 7 years ago. Couple that with the inability to get a second opinion, or have a choice on who operates and you easily get the picture.

Always remember, they still call the guy/gal who finished at the bottom of their residency term, "doctor." And, you will most likely find that person at the VA.

Last Edited by justavet on 06/25/2019 11:24 AM

she is not profitable. send her to the phosphorous factories. might squeeze a little more profit out of her.

Goodluck Hospital upsetting Glasgow....those lot will come round and break your freaking hands probably.

kill the fu..ers, hand them in their homes and those who vote these laws

hant them

She should have claimed to be muslim.......problem solved!

Pretty much. When my mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer they basically said sucks to be you. Good thing for mom the doctor fought it and told the hospital to f off and she was treated. If it wasnt for that doctor mom would not be here

The murder and torture of my mother and i have the swift family tree and the hadids boasting how they have our house bugged and they sent my mother home twice when she had a failing liver murdering GPS gang stalking filth that swift family tree

Shame on UK. Is there not an Englishman with balls left in the country? He needs to drive out the Huns, the barbarians, the islamist and the socialists. England is officially not a civilized country.
I hope the pussies can at least round up some money to pay for a private doctor for her.

She's past her Use By date.

Doctors are psychopaths, but that is to required to do the job.

Their time is coming...they'll get what they deserve one way or another.

Should never have allowed entry to inbred ethnic groups prone to birth defects.

Didn't the Nazis also kill the infirm?

and libs want socialized medicine here?

This is murder and while doctors & nurses think they get away with it, they will answer to God. Each one will answer for their body count. Leftists are evil incarnate.

Broken hip for old folk used to mean they would be put down (withhold fluids) until dead. Lost my grandmother to this. My grt grandmother, and an old wwii friend.

Care pathway they call it.
Assholes.

I don’t get ignorant people who think the government denying you treatment is somehow better than not being able to afford treatment. Something can be done about not affording treatment (work harder or get charity). Nothing can be done about the government refusing treatment.

The doctors have such a bad attitude that they need to go on piece work .
Not peace work but earn their money by the actual work they do . So 2 breaks £20 ...just joking about the price ..They do not have to provide the hospital ,the drugs .It is just their skills .They have it easy ...The ancient Sumerian doctors were not paid if the patient died .

They are entitled and get too much money ...

Never ,never pay dentists this way ...They will drill good tech to get the money ..I know this they tried to do this to one or my children when they were under 10 .
I became agitated as I could not see a hole in the tooth stopped dentists and they never had a filling ..

Any way back to the doctors .They should all have to take out personal insurance for their foul ups . The incompetent once would be triggered by the insurance system and would never gat any more insurance .It would also save the NHS paying out for hopeless doctors .

These doctors should be fined personally for cruelty .

This bad attitude to the elders who contributed to their free education is very ,very sad .

I would like to remind any medics here or any otheryoung people who are for this ...

Everyone ages .We should be kind to the poor ,the sick and the old ...

If you do not agree remember that if this goes the way the abortion thing went it is you guys who will be put down when you are sixty ..Not the oldies today .

Some big hearted person should bring a case against the actual doctors who did this to the elderly lady ...

I am actually uncertain whether the doctors swear the hypocritical oath like the oldie doctors did when they qualified ...this has failed the hypocratic oath ... How about fining the doctors personally £10,000 each ..This would most probably fix the problem ..

The thing is we need to have doctors with a vocation to heal ..not to get rich ..though good doctors with a vocation are worth the money .Physics should be one of the A levels as it helps problem solving ..aka diagnosis .

French Alevel for a pretty girl is just not good enough ...

Maybe we should have robots choose medical students ...?

They went through a patch of not choosing students who would have been fine as doctors ...Well they are basically idiots ...the people running the system not the candidates .Here they also do not require the new doctors to work here for a while and the go off to Canada,Australia and America .I knew new doctors who did this .


We are noe short of doctors ...suprise ,suprise ...Not .

What the fuck are you talking about? It is a hard right TORY government that is decimating our NHS. You do know they have been in government for nearly 10 years now right?

Even Tory Blair looked after the NHS, Labour's greatest achievement.

Not just UK... When I was scheduled for surgery for breast cancer and had to see my primary for clearance, he walked into the room and said... not hello, but, 'Who sent you for a mammogram?'... I said, 'What?', and he repeated his statement. Then said, 'You know you are going to die soon, so no reason to do anything like surgery...'

I had the surgery. I'm still here. If you want to know place in Ohio and doctor, message me and I will be glad to share.

Last Edited by VisionSpeak on 06/25/2019 01:02 PM

The problem and elephant in the room that we all avoid is that the human race needs poor people who can't afford to raise their kids to STOP HAVING KIDS.

We have more than enough uneducated poor people already.

In a bizarre twist of irony, the only people slowing their birth rate are educated (mainly white, European or euro descendent American) people with financial means to provide for their kids.
(Maybe they are getting sick of footing the bills for the masses of welfare leeches and their abundant offspring)

Flame on. I know the truth will inevitably piss some people off and ruin your little safe spaces.

wrist/hands are the worst as are too complex even surgeries in specialized centers fail continuosly.

This is for service she PAID FOR.

If someone is a paying customer, they need to provide the same level of service to anyone who pays the same amount, not base something on someone's age or other factor.

she should have smeared black grease on her face first and said she was mulatto.

I was crunching the numbers a while back, and while people are living longer in some regions, we're still reaching the same level of decline by 65.

Meaning, we can't keep working until 80 just because we're living longer. We just have more "twilight years" now.