I'm still off today - hobbling around in my dressing gown.I stumbled across Michael Moore's new Film "Sicko" on Google video (see link) - amazingly it is available to watch, free and in it's entirety.
Well, although I'm still in pain, and a bit debilitated, I certainly don't feel sorry for myself any more! Moore may have his critics, but this film makes me proud of being British, I never thought I'd say that.
Moore's (not quite spontaneous - aimed more at driving home the point home to Middle America I suspect) surprise at the lack of charges in the NHS, was amusing. However I wish he'd asked a few Nurses about their pay and lifestyles, I suspect the Audi driving GP, with the £500,000 Greenwich house, may not be entirely representative of NHS employees.
The finale in Cuba had me in tears - seriously!
A great film, and of course it was biased and opinionated , but I believe all his facts check out - go watch it now :
Ouch! the pain!!!
“No man is a good physician who has never been sick” - Arabian proverb
2 comments:
It's so nice for me to have found this blog of yours, it's so interesting. I sure hope and wish that you take courage enough to pay me a visit in my PALAVROSSAVRVS REX!, and plus get some surprise. My blog is also so cool! Don't think for a minute that my invitation is spam and I'm a spammer. I'm only searching for a public that may like or love what I write.
Feel free off course to comment as you wish and remember: don't take it wrong, don't think that this visitation I make is a matter of more audiences for my own blogg. No. It's a matter of making universal, realy universal, all this question of bloggs, all the essential causes that bring us all together by visiting and loving one another.
You must not feel obliged to come and visit me. An invitation is not an intimation. Also know that if you click on one of my ads I'm promised to earn 8 cents for that: I would feel happy if you did click it, but once again you're totaly free to do what ever you want. That's the whole beauty of it all.
I think it's to UNITE MANKIND that we became bloggers! Don't see language as an obstacle but as a challenge (though you can use the translater BabelFish at the bottom of my page!) and think for a minute if I and the rest of the world are not expecting something like a broad cumplicity. Remenber that pictures talk also. Open your heart and come along!!!!!
Ive watched half of that tonight, and i'll finish it off tomorrow. As you say it makes you proud to work for the NHS, ramshackle and halfarsed we may be sometimes, but the intention is always good. Private Health Insurance is my nemesis ...dont get me started on that, to the point where i refused to take a mortgage out with one firm because they were insisting i took out Bupa insurance, which morally i'm opposed to. We've currently got a patient who is in hospital to have her baby. It was cheaper for her to fly across from the US, and stay six months here than to pay the bills over there. We have to charge her, but she has no insurance, so its likely we'll get nothing, i have a member of staff lurking around her door on a daily basis in case she and the baby do a runner. I hate that bit of the job but its getting more and more common sadly. Health tourism will flourish whilst the rest of the world denies basic rights to its people in the name of capitalism.
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