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> lung cancer CT scans happen inside a week. I know this from experience. This is such a mischaracterization of the Swedish healthcare system, which is much mo

> lung cancer CT scans happen inside a week. I know this from experience. This is such a mischaracterization of the Swedish healthcare system, which is much more a lottery than your 'personal experience' suggests. I have my own experience of a service that is plagued by delays, inefficiency and outright dystopian suffering alongside other people who have had fast and efficient help. It's very much the luck of the draw - although sometimes I get the impression that social standing and even 'blondeness quotient' may help to get better care.

shakow 3y ago
Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK.
- stringsandchars 3y ago
  > Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK I was replying to a response that was specifically about Sweden. > Erikun > This was my thought exactly (I’m Swedish). It sounds so brutal, and it was not just her own but her entire family’s! > adastra22 > Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days. I noticed that adastra22 was downvoted for this. I'm really not sure why, as it very closely mirrors a lot of people's experience with Swedish healthcare. There have been a lot of stories in the news over the last couple of years, but here's just one at the top of a simple google-search, about a kid that died because their scans were postponed (in Swedish): https://www.dagensmedicin.se/specialistomraden/cancer/barn-dog-efter-att-kontroll-skjutits-upp/ https://www.dagensmedicin.se/specialistomraden/cancer/barn-d... > Due to a lack of capacity at Karolinska University Hospital, the examination of a previously cancerous child was postponed. The child subsequently died of metastatic cancer.
  - shakow 3y ago
    I'm afraid you hit the wrong ‶reply″ button.
sjducb 3y ago
I’m talking about the UK. No idea about Sweden. Regarding long waits for care. You want to be the patient who has to wait for ages. It means you’re going to be fine. You don’t want to be the person who gets rushed past the queue.

shakow 3y ago

Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK.

stringsandchars 3y ago
> Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK I was replying to a response that was specifically about Sweden. > Erikun > This was my thought exactly (I’m Swedish). It sounds so brutal, and it was not just her own but her entire family’s! > adastra22 > Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days. I noticed that adastra22 was downvoted for this. I'm really not sure why, as it very closely mirrors a lot of people's experience with Swedish healthcare. There have been a lot of stories in the news over the last couple of years, but here's just one at the top of a simple google-search, about a kid that died because their scans were postponed (in Swedish): https://www.dagensmedicin.se/specialistomraden/cancer/barn-dog-efter-att-kontroll-skjutits-upp/ https://www.dagensmedicin.se/specialistomraden/cancer/barn-d... > Due to a lack of capacity at Karolinska University Hospital, the examination of a previously cancerous child was postponed. The child subsequently died of metastatic cancer.
- shakow 3y ago
  I'm afraid you hit the wrong ‶reply″ button.

sjducb 3y ago

I’m talking about the UK. No idea about Sweden. Regarding long waits for care. You want to be the patient who has to wait for ages. It means you’re going to be fine. You don’t want to be the person who gets rushed past the queue.