If rightwingers are correct about America’s having “the best health care in the world ,” then we are truly doomed. :mad:
Kids care for mom without arms, legs
By Ashley Fantz, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Lisa Strong lost her arms and legs after being misdiagnosed at hospital
Doctors who treated her were found not guilty of malpractice, now face new trial
Her children have become her parents, struggling to take care of her
(CNN) – Every morning, Lisa Strong’s 10-year-old son lifts her heavy prosthetic legs and screws them into the levers in her knees. He reaches for a pair of pants and pulls them up around her waist.
Then, at the bathroom mirror, her 11-year-old daughter gingerly wiggles into the space between her mother’s arms, which are big and bulky and plastic, stiff like a mannequin’s. The girl twists a tube of soft pink lipstick and glides it over her mother’s lips.
You can go find any one story from any one country where there was gross negligence or mismanagement. That doesn’t mean the countries whole system is bad.
That’s coming from someone who really, truly dislikes America’s system.
Best healthcare in the world ≠ mistake-proof health care.
The same mistake could have been made in another country where the option of prosthetic limbs was not available, or the woman could have died rather than just needing quadruple amputation. In other words, it still could have been worse.
While tragic, I have a hard time believing that’s anything but a freak occurrence. I’m not sure that it says anything about the current healthcare debate, and I think you’re reaching.
A few years ago a healthy woman went into a hospital in Florida to have a baby and came out a quadruple amputee because of a resistant staph infection. In a way, you could say that’s because of over-diligent health care. If she’d given birth at home she never would have lost her limbs.
I mean, there are a lot of indictments against our health care system - I’m not sure if this is one of them.