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Britain’s nationalized health care system is so wonderful we’re trying to emulate it.  Only it’s not wonderful.  It’s atrocious.  Even by Britain’s standards, though, this story is amazing:

The 22-year-old was not given vital medication after an operation at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, according to his mother.

A coroner has such grave concerns about the case that it has been referred to police who are investigating Mr Gorny’s care.

…His mother, Rita Cronin, says he needed drugs three times a day to regulate his hormones, but he was not given them by hospital staff.

She said he became very dehydrated but his requests for water were refused and nurses called in security guards to restrain him when he became angry.

He became so frustrated that he rang the police from his bed to demand their help but officers were assured Mr Gorny was fine.

She said nurses assumed he was just badly behaved.

Mr Gorny’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration.

But don’t you Britons worry, because “new procedures [have been] introduced to ensure that such a case cannot happen in future.”

The only procedure capable of ensuring government competence is…woops, sorry, there is no such procedure.

The manner in which that patient was treated is only possible in a system where the patient is not the customer. Keep that in mind as the left argues that we need even more regulators and insurance agents in between you and your  doctor, rather than fewer.

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