The understated problem with socialized medicine is that quality suffers.
Daily Mail: A brave mother found the strength to be at her son's first day of school before cancer claimed her life the following day.
In a final act of defiance against the disease, 31-year-old Gemma Hogg checked out of the hospice where she had gone to die to see four-year-old Thomas go to infant school.
She then returned to the hospice in Crawley, Sussex, and passed away a day later on Tuesday, September 7, surrounded by her family....
Her husband, an IT project manager, considered taking legal action against the NHS, for what he believes was a 'long summer of misdiagnosis' after a lump, initially discovered by his wife in around 2007, was dismissed as harmless breast tissue, then mastitis, and was later treated as a cyst.
It was only when Mrs Hogg paid to go private that the severity of her condition was discovered.....