NHS vs Private Practice - BBC

*Contains graphic images of surgery* A surgeon explains his decision to leave the NHS and work only in the Private sector. From the BBC series "Private life of Harley Street".

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[davijeph]

@PastafariansWON He was to busy keeping his eye on his wallet.

[TheSpasticbanana]

He is talking while doing the surgery, shouldn't he be focus to "do a good job" . See the irony.

[RickyHolcroft]

@FATRgames I see what you mean in a way. I don't know whether to trust him though, I feel like he's exaggerating wherever he can though which is a bit harmful. My auntie's a nurse in the NHS and I'm always asking her questions about it but I obviously won't know as much as the man in the video. Either way I stick with my view that the NHS works well but I'd be up for anything new that works better than a national service or certain kinds of private insurance.

[FATRgames]

@RickyHolcroft even though that clown in the video has experience from the inside of the NHS? sounds like he'd know what he's talking about...

[210482fmj]

i know exactly what this guy is getting at. I have noticed in uk nhs hospitals how more care is put into paper work and administration procedures than patient care and waiting rooms dont have comfortable soft seats for people in pain e.t.c. IT almost feels like a dirty public waiting room. more care and emphasis seems to be put into paper work about patients than actually helping people. notice how very little careis put into food the most important thing of all and its always shite

[JREwingofDallasTexas]

@Robf987 And if that was he case then surely it shows the flaws of the system and how wasteful it is with the tax payers money. under-employment, as it is known would never happen if the people actually paying for the system had and say in how their money was spent.

[RickyHolcroft]

@lickmyfart Yeh definitely with you there, really hope you all manage to get something similar in the US because it's brilliant. You definitely will one day as long as you all keep fighting for it and ignore all the lies you see in the papers about the NHS because it really is utter crap (I used a Washington Times article on the NHS to write an essay for my English coursework on newspaper bias and I had a lot to write about!). You should probably ignore that clown in the video too.. haha

[lickmyfart]

@RickyHolcroft Well we are brothers in the sense that we know what is right and what is wrong. It is wrong to try to take away a system that provides many disadvantaged citizens the care, and has made the UK a healthier nation than the US as a whole. Americans are in support of such a system but we don't even collectively realize it yet. Guiding lights like the UK need to keep their universal healthcare systems to sink in their positive example.

[RickyHolcroft]

@lickmyfart I never thought I'd say this but you are my new best mate lickmyfart!

[davijeph]

@lickmyfart Thanks for your reply. The following can be found on todays BBC Homepage:- NHS concessions due after review. The academic talking on the video is the same Gentleman who can be seen on the Youtube Suggestions column British Doctor. "NHS is superb". Regards 

[lickmyfart]

@davijeph Yes. Learn from our mistakes. Privatization is bad news for the citizens in most of need. We are getting to the point where our jails are slowly becoming privatized too. Here we have various ethical, financial, and philosophical concerns that are being raised as a result of this rapid turnover to privatization, of responsibilities that should be handled by the state! Very dangerous for citizens regardless of the country.