Re:How to lose two jobs in one year
by stringsandchars on Saturday February 24, 2024 @05:54AM
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> Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK
I was replying to a response that was specifically about Sweden.
> Erikun
> This was my thought exactly (I’m Swedish). It sounds so brutal, and it was not just her own but her entire family’s!
> adastra22
> Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days.
I noticed that adastra22 was downvoted for this. I'm really not sure why, as it very closely mirrors a lot of people's experience with Swedish healthcare.
There have been a lot of stories in the news over the last couple of years, but here's just one at the top of a simple google-search, about a kid that died because their scans were postponed (in Swedish):
> Due to a lack of capacity at Karolinska University Hospital, the examination of a previously cancerous child was postponed. The child subsequently died of metastatic cancer.
I was replying to a response that was specifically about Sweden.
> Erikun
> This was my thought exactly (I’m Swedish). It sounds so brutal, and it was not just her own but her entire family’s!
> adastra22
> Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days.
I noticed that adastra22 was downvoted for this. I'm really not sure why, as it very closely mirrors a lot of people's experience with Swedish healthcare.
There have been a lot of stories in the news over the last couple of years, but here's just one at the top of a simple google-search, about a kid that died because their scans were postponed (in Swedish):
https://www.dagensmedicin.se/specialistomraden/cancer/barn-d...
> Due to a lack of capacity at Karolinska University Hospital, the examination of a previously cancerous child was postponed. The child subsequently died of metastatic cancer.