Thursday, February 24, 2005

A Victory for Socialized Medicine

A young girl in Britain was diagnosed with a rare condition which made her aspirate her food. For seven and a half years she's had to eat via a feeding tube attached to a special backpack. Picture an energetic little girl whose favorite smell is cooking bacon, having to leave the room when the family ate. She snuck morsels of food. And the doctors insisted their diagnosis was correct. Then her family flew her to Stanford where the doctors performed a miracle. They figured out what was wrong with her.

Nothing.

1 Comments:

Blogger Craig said...

Fair enough. Medical errors are too common everywhere. I do wonder, though, if you'll be able to find a link to a story where free-market doctors persisted seven years in a bogus diagnosis.

4:09 PM, February 24, 2005  

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