(Another) Teachers strike

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EFCNIK said:
Oh ****ing hell, ****ing hell.
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It all starts with a wee sore and a little bit of discharge mate. Anyway, take your mind off it and think of something else.

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Bruce Wayne said:
That's just the thing mate, healthcare shouldn't be as expensive as it is. If you check out the Aravind story, they can do operations for a fraction of the price that US/UK hospitals, and the quality is at least as good. It's not because they've got some Doctor Nick types doing it for peanuts but because they have cut out all the inefficiencies.

If you look at most information based products they've gone rapidly down in price down the years, with many enjoying Moore's Law type improvements. Healthcare though gets ever more expensive.

The whole thing's messed up. We had the working time thing not long ago, yet doctors still do 70 hour weeks, and the standard for nurses is a 12-14 hour day. Would you want folks looking after your grandad that are exhausted?

The drugs are the same. Because of litigation companies now have to complete drug trials that last 5-6 years. Quite a few will fall by the wayside during that time, meaning that the ones that do make it to market have to earn ****loads before their patent expires and Indian companies knock out clones for 1/10th of the price. So we have drugs that are bloody expensive. Can there not be a better way?

I dunno. Maybe a better emphasis would be to keep people healthy rather than treat them when they get sick. If there were more people supplying the service you'd probably get that kind of variation as they all tried different things. Just can't see it in the NHS though as it's all so political. The Tories try something, in a few years time it'll be barely implemented when Labour'll probably get elected and tear it all up and try their own thing, and so the cycle will continue, with all the time and money wasted along the way.
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I know a couple of doctors and they don;t do 70 hours a week, the only ones that do do so out of choice due to the £300/hour overtime payments.

I don't know any nurses that work more than 12 hours a day for a sustained period.

Also drug trials have always taken then long to complete, are you really trying to say that's a recent development. It's to prevent a thalidomide from happening again.

It also takes that length of time to test the efficacy of the drugs in question. What's your alternative?!?! Some geezers get together and say 'hey let's mix that **** with that **** and it'll probably be good for something'?

Seriously, you say some weird things but complaining about the length of drug trials is probably the weirdest. That India produces clones is something that needs to be addressed (again, it doesn't happen nearly as much as you're trying to imply), but drug trials are the length they are for a very, very good reason.

Those that fail don't fail because of the fear of litigation, they fail because they discover the drugs don't work.
 
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