:And to think some people want socialised healthcare in this country.

Miscarriage follows ambulance crash after nine hospitals turn woman away.

      Some things are almost to hard to believe, yet this really did happen, and the consequences for the person involved will be more than just physical.  This type of loss carries with it real and lasting emotional scars that will fade with time but never disappear.  As for the hospitals who turned this poor woman away may their directors of emergency medicine rot in the very worst part of hell usually reserved for terrorists and child molesters.  I hope that this and similar incidents will spur the Japanese government into sanctioning the hospitals who refused a patient needing treatment.  The duty of physician is to first do no harm, and that includes providing a safe enviroment for those in need of care, not allowing them to spend hours in ambulance running from place to place in vain while their condition worsens.  The first hour is called the golden hour for a very good reason.  If you treat someone within one hour of a medical emergency their chances of survival go up something like eighty percent.  I can not fault the paramedics here, they did their utmost to find proper treatment for this poor woman who required much more sophisticated and specialised care than they could offer. 

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