Show WHAT KIND OF DIAGNOSIS the freeman magazine recently ran this significant little item the associated press reports the story of a 48 year old englishman who tried to get a good diagnosis of his case from the socialized medicos of great britian looking him over hurriedly the harassed and distracted british doctors decided he was a gone goose his legs appeared to be suffering from incurable diseases of the blood vessels and they soon would have to be cut oft off death would follow in fairly short order far from resigning himself to obliteration however the 48 year old englishman who happened to be an employee of a shipping firm wangled vang led himself a trip to america doctors in connecticut gave him di diagnosis that took 20 days tor for its completion it was finally determined that the English mans trouble was due to a spine condition which could be relieved by wearing a brace the man will live and he will keep his legs the freeman observed that it did not want to force a moral from this as one item does not prove a trend but is is the sort of thing that can be expected under either socialized medicine or government dominated medicine the british doctors are perfectly competent and britain has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of medical science but the change that has taken place since the labor government socialized medicine has been tremendous and depressing doctors must follow rules laid down by bureaucrats it is all done by the book and the politicians write the book under the panel system doctors often are forced to deal with so many patients that it is a physical impossibility to give difficult cases the time and attention needed in all probability the overwhelming opposition with which compulsory T government health insurance has met with was in large part due to what has happened in england |