If your cancer surgery gets delay for months and the cancer spreads to your lymph nodes, will you be happy that they government told you it was free?
Stuart Browning of onthefencefilms, does a great job in reporting news stories from Europe, Canada, and Australia, documenting some horrors.
Canada
Woman waits four days for surgery for broken leg
Susy Horna spent four pain-filled days in Surrey Memorial Hospital waiting for an operation on her broken leg.
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"You can't eat for 12 hours before surgery, so I didn't have anything to eat from Wednesday to Saturday," Horna said yesterday from her hospital bed, recovering from her Saturday operation. "The only thing they offer you is morphine."
Canadians fleeing long waitlists by going abroad
As waitlists grow ever longer, surgical tourism has become an option for many Canadians who are in pain and frustrated with the country's chronically overburdened medical system.
United Kingdom
Cancer Appointment Cancelled 48 Times
ANGRY cancer patient Dennis Burke yesterday branded the NHS a shambles after a hospital cancelled his appointment 48 times in a row.
Dennis, 68, who is in remission from bowel cancer, spent 14 months trying to get a consultation after his GP referred him to hospital. He said: "I am absolutely fed-up with them messing me around.
"What's the point in my GP telling me to go to hospital if I can't get an appointment?
"I have had to put up with 48 appointments with an NHS doctor being cancelled in a row. It is a disgrace."
U.K. Woman Goes to Norway to get an MRI
A WOMAN has spoken about why she opted for an MRI scan in Scandinavia rather than waiting for one in Wales
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The 55-year-old, ... travelled the 715 miles for a contrasting MRI scan after being told she faced an 18-month wait for the same diagnostic procedure on the NHS in Wales.
No One to Operate the MRI Scanner
The dire state of funding at our hospitals was laid bare today when it emerged a scanner designed to ease pressure on the N&N has not been used since it was installed six months ago.
The delay was today blamed on a lack of money to employ radiographers to operate it and the need to test it fully.
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North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said: "It is not just lack of radiographers that is the problem - it is the lack of money to employ them."
"It has been excruciating and frustrating that the MRI scanner has sat there unused for so long, and even when it is used it will only be for one session a week. The hospital trust has had a bad deal from the Government. I will continue to encourage them to find ways to get the scanner in use full time and I know the hospital authority is keen to do that."
The scanner was moved from the N&N to Cromer and District Hospital in May to ease pressure at the N&N, where people were waiting up to 25 weeks for a scan.
Scottish Flee to India for Medical Procedures
When doctors told Stuart Shaw he needed a hip replacement he was faced with a six-month wait or a 9,000 [pound. bill from a private hospital. Suffering excruciating pain, the 67-year-old decided to travel to India instead. He paid less than 4,000 [pounds] for the operation, including his travel expenses and five weeks in hospital.
Breast Cancer Surgeries Delayed
Reports that 12 women have had vital breast cancer surgery delayed due to bed shortages at the Mater Hospital in Dublin are 'very disturbing', the Labour Party has said.
Australia
Triple Bypass Surgery Cancelled Four Times
Yesterday morning, 62-year-old Vincent Mays and his family were shattered to learn that his triple bypass surgery had been cancelled because of a lack of beds - for the fourth time in six weeks.
Woman with Cancer Told To Wait
"The recording said that the doctor had advised that my case wasn't urgent and that they would reschedule an appointment in the new year," she said.
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