Man, 22, Dies After Liver Transplant Refused »
Posted By gandalff 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
I can't wait for this type of health care. It is going to be so so so AWESOME!!!! Once again Never been to a hospital before until he was diagnosed (You think maybe a Yearly check up or once every 6 months would have caught this??) Just saying, any half asleep doctor could have diagnosed him years before this go to this point. Oh I can't wait for this to come to AMERICA.
Gary Reinbach, who died in hospital on Monday from a severe case of liver cirrhosis, did not qualify for a donor liver under strict NHS rules.
The alcoholic, from Dagenham, Essex, had admitted binge drinking since he was 13 but was only taken to hospital for the first time with liver problems 10 weeks ago.
He was never discharged.
His mother Madeline Hanshaw, 44, said: "These rules are really unfair."
She told the Evening Standard: "I'm not saying you should give a transplant to someone who is in and out of hospital all the time and keeps damaging themselves, but just for people like Gary, who made a mistake and never got a second chance."
She said he was "desperate to recover" but had deteriorated quickly.
Mr Reinbach's family said he had started drinking aged 11 when his parents split up and drank heavily from the age of 13.
He had recently tried to give up and had signed up for support group Alcoholics Anonymous just weeks before he was taken into hospital, they said.
His brother Luke, 18, told the Evening Standard: "They never gave him the chance to show he could change."
Mr Reinbach died at University College Hospital, London.
A hospital spokeswoman said: "Our sympathies are with his family at this time."
Campaign group Alcohol Concern said it is worried a rise in teenage drinking will lead to more people suffering alcohol-related illnesses at younger ages.
"There has not really been much research into younger people's drinking and the effects that is having on health in this country," said a spokeswoman.
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Temlakos4 months, 2 weeks ago
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The outrage is, of course, that a government--any government--arrogates to itself the authority, under this or *any other* circumstances (except as punishment for a crime, whereof the party involved shall have been duly convicted), to determine who lives and who dies. I find the inconsistency of the positions of those who oppose capital punishment, and yet wink and nod at spectacles of this sort, deliciously ironic.
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That said, the virtual destruction of the conventional medical establishment, that will be inevitable unless the Obama regime is checked, presents an opportunity to encourage us all to take responsibility for our own health. Sadly, this will probably require extending the definition of "first aid" to include the realignment and semi-permanent immobilization of fractures, a thing we are told today is not first aid but "the doctor's job." (And when the doctor can't see you for eight hours, that becomes moot.) But it can also include a recognition that our own lifestyle choices threaten to make us chronically ill in a variety of ways, by no means limited to cirrhosis of the liver from alcohol abuse. If this dreary mess will encourage people to change diets and lifestyles so that they may avoid heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer, then it will not be all loss. -
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icono14 months, 2 weeks ago
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IMO.... for I have seen this before;
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You treat those people that are perceived to be 'beneficial' to the collective or rather society, as determined by politicians and bureaucrats, and in the process, the govt ie citizens, saves valuable monies and time for more important 'medical issues'.-
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smithichie4 months, 2 weeks ago
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How dare a government withhold a liver from a citizen. Don't they know we should reserve that right to insurance companies alone?!
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