A BBC Radio 4 programme a couple of mornings ago revealed yet another instance of how badly our National Health Service is run from London. In Germany (whether a private or a public patient is involved) an ultra-sound scan or a MRI scan is normally done immediately in a hospital if a doctor requires them for the diagnosis. In England a NHS patient typically has to wait six months for an ultra-sound scan and ten months for an MRI scan.
In the case of my own treatment for prostate cancer, diagnosed in November 2000, and which could have been carried out easily within two months, it took 11 months until I had my final X-Ray session. I still do not know the final results. Every time I telephone, I'm told that the computer has crashed. All this is scarcely believable. Keith Hudson __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
