More News From The Place Where England Used To Be

A woman has died.

She got drunk. She went to the restroom. She missed the toilet and caught a toilet brush up her rectum in her butt cheek. 6" of it broke off inside her bum. She went to the Emergency Department at the hospital and they missed it. She went back, over and over again, complaining of abdominal problems and pain. Guess how many x-rays were added to her medical record during that period.

Two years later, they figured out that she had a piece of brush handle in her, but by then it had fused to her bones. Surgical removal, they said could prove fatal. It was.

Such is the state of medical care in the United Kingdom, where the government provides everyone with state-rationed care in approved-cost doses.