Daily Mail - The condition can be treated with a £14,000 operation to fit a gastric pacemaker - although this is still considered to be an experimental treatment.
A young woman who is starving to death after being diagnosed with a paralysed stomach has been told that NHS bosses refuse to fund an operation to save her.
Rudi Hargreaves, 22, has shrunk from a healthy 10st to a skeletal 5st 10lb after being diagnosed with the crippling condition last year.
Within weeks of being diagnosed with gastroparesis, Rudi found her size 12 clothes were hanging off her - as her stomach became unable to digest food at a normal rate.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2013434/Help-Im-starving-death-6st-woman-paralysed-stomach-refused-life-saving-operation.html#ixzz1RpmjMCu9
But health chiefs have refused to fund the surgery, saying 'insufficient supporting information' has been provided by her GP.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2013434/Help-Im-starving-death-6st-woman-paralysed-stomach-refused-life-saving-operation.html#ixzz1RpmfZJL6
Monday, July 11, 2011
Adventures in Socialized Medicine
Socialized care contians costs by denying care. What good is "health insurance" if you can't get the care?
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