Nov '23 (edited) • General discussion
Funny accident
Last Sunday I fell off my battery assisted mountain bike on a dirt country road. I fractured three ribs and the sternum, dislocated my left shoulder, broke my right thumb, lightly raptured the spleen and the left lung lobe. Luckily, my head was spared thanks to the bike helmet I was wearing. The lesson: never ride a two wheeler without wearing a helmet; it definitely saves lives.
I was hospitalised in a public hospital for five days, which was finished three years ago. It’s an excellent hospital equipped with all the modern medical equipment and stuffed with top notch doctors, nurses, and ancillary personnel. My gratitude to all these incredible people who save our lives cannot be put into words. I left for last the financial aspect; it cost me absolutely nothing! This hospital is part of the country’s public health system.
Considering that a poor country like Greece can operate rather adequately a public health system, notwithstanding its relative shortcomings and limitations, makes one wonder why other much more wealthier countries, especially these with monetary sovereignty, have to provide health services by private businesses hospitals at enormous costs. I used to admire and much praise Sweden’s public health system until my psychiatrist cousin who’s been working there told me that over the last couple of decades this isn’t true any more. Whenever she and her teenage daughter are in need of medical treatment, even for routine tests, they fly over to Greece to get well. I guess neoliberal policies are succeeding in destroying the social fabric of what once was the role model of the welfare state. Maybe Stephen the Swede can tell us more on this.
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Funny accident
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