1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. REC.ARTS.SF.FANDOM

  • New frontiers of socialized medicine

    From Keith F. Lynch@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 2 15:41:30 2023
    Accodording to Lehto's Law, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtL2GI2hr8>,
    an NHS facility mistakenly informed all its patients, by a no-reply text message, that they had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Oops!
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Alan Woodford@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 2 16:37:50 2023
    On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:41:30 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

    Accodording to Lehto's Law, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtL2GI2hr8>,
    an NHS facility mistakenly informed all its patients, by a no-reply text >message, that they had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Oops!


    And, of course, no profit-making health facility has -ever- made a mistake
    like that, have they?

    No, it really, really, wasn't a good thing to do, and I hope that appropriate measures were taken, just as I'd hope they would be at a profit-making facility!

    Alan Woodford, not expecting Keith to read this.

    The Greying Lensman

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Paul Dormer@21:1/5 to Alan Woodford on Tue Jan 3 12:20:00 2023
    In article <5r16rh9pign864fr9s9ssin4pqi528dl47@4ax.com>,
    alan@thewoodfords.uk (Alan Woodford) wrote:


    And, of course, no profit-making health facility has -ever- made a
    mistake
    like that, have they?

    Of course, what the UK news reports said was that it was GP's surgery,
    but apparently, in the US, surgery is not used in the context of premises
    used by a doctor for consultations, etc. (A patient going into hospital
    for surgery is understood.)

    Then there is the concept of an MP's surgery, where MPs can meet their constituents to discuss problems. When the MP Jo Cox was murdered at a
    surgery back in 2016, Lynne Murphy on her Separated by a Common Language
    blog said that many American friends asked her what that meant.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)