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posted by martyb on Saturday October 29 2016, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the VERY-stiff-upper-lip dept.

"A former soldier cut off two of his gangrene-ridden toes with a pair of tin metal pliers without anesthetic in his living room after becoming frustrated at a six-week delay to being operated on by the National Health Service (NHS)."

[...] "He says he eventually developed gangrene and his doctor said his infected toes would have to be removed. Rather than wait six weeks for the operation, Dibbins took matters into his own hands.

He says the operation, performed without pain killers and in his living room while biting on a rolled up towel, took about an hour. His wife of 40 years was in the house but says she did not want to look.

“Knowing that it would take at least another six weeks to get me in front of a surgeon again, that’s when I bit the bullet and cut off the toes,” Dibbins told the North Devon Journal.

“I did it because it’s what had to be done. My doctor told me my toes were going to kill me."

https://www.rt.com/uk/364152-gangrene-frostbite-toes-cut/


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @11:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @11:38PM (#420346)

    Right, because the tories, bless their twisted little hearts, have tried to stem the bleeding. They didn't manage to actually reduce the NHS budget, but they sort of shuffled the money around and redefined a few things and managed to put a lid on the cauldron and sit on it for a while. If you draw the graph, they slowed the climb rather than reversed it, and if you draw any kind of moving average the net effect pretty much vanishes.

    That reinforces the point, rather than weakens it, especially since the whingeing from the imploding left increases every time anybody bothers to listen to them. Even leaving aside Corbyn's pet madhouse, the centre is full of people who appear to think that the only problem with the NHS is that there isn't more of it. We're still bombarded with the message that the toffs are vampiric monsters who should be taxed until they couldn't afford anything better than the NHS could deliver anyway, while the poor shivering proles can't get enough coal to stoke their fireplace of a winter's night.

    It's enough to make one want to move to the US.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by BasilBrush on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:08AM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:08AM (#420410)

    Again, NHS spending as a percentage of GDP has been falling every year since 2010. That's not "slowed the climb". That's a decreasing.

    You're still talking shite.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:55AM (#420422)

      Stop hyperventilating. Read the words.

      The actual budget is not reduced; the relative budget as part of GDP is reduced, (although the budget as part of revenue is questionably reduced) and this is in an era of growth when they made a big noise about working hard to trim the NHS.

      And this is just the last government.

      And the dip relative to GDP is tiny.

      Look at the actual graph in real terms, and it's not much of a decrease unless you handpick some bizarre measure of inflation.

      But hey - what do I know? HM government's numbers must all be nonsense, right? The tories are secretly chopping the NHS down by tens of millio ... er wait, they're not? In fact, the chancellor got a lot of stick from his own backbenchers for backing away from their promise?

      Up is down! Left is right! Cats and dogs living together! Total insanity!

      ... but right, must be all that shite I'm talking.

      Boom, boom.

      • (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:32PM

        by BasilBrush (3994) on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:32PM (#422228)

        You brought up the measuring against SGP, tit.

        You're full of shite on your own measure.

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