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The Ultimate Game of Broken Promises
#healthcare
The Ultimate Game of Broken Promises
Politicians, healthcare workers, and the public are in a never-ending three-way tug-of-war. Politicians promise the world, claiming they’ll fix everything, while healthcare workers are the ones stuck picking up the pieces—literally, because no one told them how to fit all those broken promises into a single hospital room. Meanwhile, the public is standing in line, waiting to see a doctor, only to realize that their appointment is scheduled for six months from now and they’ll need to sell a kidney just to afford the co-pay. Doctors and nurses are running around like they’re in a high-stakes game of Twister, trying to keep everyone alive while politicians are busy arguing over which flavor of reform sounds best on Twitter. At the end of the day, everyone just wants to be healthy, but the system is like a game of “Simon Says”—except Simon is out to lunch, and the rules keep changing.
NHS A&E Crisis: Patients Left Waiting Days for Life-Saving Operations
- Sunday, 20 April 2025
A woman, Jennie Kirby, spent four days waiting for a "critical" 30-minute operation to drain an abscess on her buttocks at Lancashire's Royal Blackburn Hospital. The documentary 999: The Critical List shows that patients in need of vital surgery are often bumped off the emergency list and rescheduled for the following day due to A&E departments being at breaking point. During this time, Jennie was unable to eat, drink or take medications orally and feared that the abscess would burst and cause sepsis.