The NHS has no ethics
I say this on the basis that my other half's Dad had a triple heart by-pass cancelled today, after 24 hours with no food and the pre-op had taken place.

Now, I get that cancellations happen, it's frustrating but unavoidable.

But it must be ethically questionable to have even employed a surgeon who has to cancel because he can't use a scalpel without cutting his thumb open.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 19:59, 7 replies)

That's disgusting.
How dare they employ someone who is anything less than 100% infallible?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 20:02, closed)

I had hoped my tongue was visibly in my cheek, but obviously not.
Although I am sure you will also forgive me a little venting of frustration, being the kind hearted, rational and never quick to judge person that you regularly show yourself to be.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 20:11, closed)

I have judged you.
And you have been found wanting.

edit: the best reason I ever saw for cancelling operations, was when one of our theatres was swallowed up by the earth. A slight exaggeration, perhaps, but we didn't make our targets, that week.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 20:18, closed)

>How dare they employ someone who is anything less than 100% infallible?
The Catholics never seem to be short of papal candidates - maybe try giving their employment agency a ring ;-)
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 21:12, closed)

They should scrap bypass operations altogether.
A waste of good money on slovenly flabboids who couldn't be fucked to look after themselves.

Still ... best of luck to the grotesque embarrassment to human evolution.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 20:22, closed)

oi!
My other half's dad is a slovenly flabboid embarrassment to human evolution, you insensitive bastard.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 20:25, closed)

They put my mother with cancer in an infectious ward after her treatment.
Then let my pregnant sister and 1 year old son visit her.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 23:28, closed)