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£5,000 nose job on the NHS (which won't fund cancer care for a five-year-old girl)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644317/Is-Britains-vainest-person-Barman-wants-look-like-perfect-man-gets-5-000-nose-job-NHS-wont-fund-cancer-care-five-year-old-girl.html
Can someone explain to me how people like this and Josie Cunningham manage to fool these GPs and why they are considered more worthy by the NHS but a five year old girl who has cancer AND a terminally ill father is treated like they mean nothing?
I just don't understand the system at all.
Can someone explain to me how people like this and Josie Cunningham manage to fool these GPs and why they are considered more worthy by the NHS but a five year old girl who has cancer AND a terminally ill father is treated like they mean nothing?
I just don't understand the system at all.
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What are they on!?
He ought to feel ashamed for wasting NHS money like that and the consultants or psychologists and NHS managers should be struck off for allowing that waste!
People depressed about their appearance due to vanity should be given the number of a private surgeon and told to sod off.
This guys nose job has nothing to do with the girl's treatment not being funded. She has had several relapses and the NHS probably consider her a lost cause.
If this guy can go to his GP, cry crocodile tears and claim he is depressed because of his nose and get nose job out of it, then we need to fix the system. It's disgusting that he can do that but it's more disgusting that the DM have gone to the girl's family.
Couldn't agree more.
We can always depend on the DM to bring a bit of joy into our lives.
I see what you're saying but it has at least also raised awareness of Kelli's story - I donated to her fund as a result of this article and hopefully more might have done the same.
I wish one day the idiot that is Sam Barton will feel ashamed of his attitude and gloating, but I don't hold out much hope for people like him.
I think it raises awareness of how messed up the system is when you can play it so easily. Obviously the DM will be wanting to stir up the outrage too, but at least people are asking questions.
I think the difference in price may be one of the factors which are being considered here. a nose job which cost £5000 compared to treatment that would cost £500,000 with no guarantee of success.
So you can treat 100 people who need nose jobs and let them live long, happier lives or spend £500,00 on one child who may still not survive. Difficult choice really.
The needs of the many, clearly outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
In reality, of course, the funding for one set of treatment has absolutely nothing to do with treatment for another condition and each case is considered on it's own merits. Maybe in the case of this little girl, it has been decided by her consultants that there is little else that they can do and that further treatment may have unwanted side effects and it is perhaps better to allow nature to take its course.
Spot on.
Of course you then realise that the NHS has to pay for treatment for depressive illness that the person may suffer, keep them on benefits until they are unable to find work and generally pay out even more than they would need to for the sake of six hours in hospital, Nice way of saving money. NOT!
If he wants to look better he'll need a heck of a lot more than just a nose job.
And the cost for continuing her treatment will just grow and grow.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.
A bit of a stupid move really. He's only then going to have more nose surgery, albeit to repair the injury sustained in the attack you're cleverly veiling...
What nonsense. If someone thinks a boob / nose job is the panacea and that all their problems will somehow be over once they get one, then they are deluded.
Giving them cosmetic surgery to deal with a psychological problem is dealing with the symptoms not the cause.
Sam Barton is 22 years old so, no, he hasn't paid into the system - not all that much anyway.
I was 25 or so when I decided I wanted a nose job, so I saved up and had it done when I was 28.
It never occurred to me to cry in front of a doctor in an attempt to get it done for nothing.
Good Luck sweetheart, will chuck something in for you
Of course silly me I suppose....
Is it the same area that has funded this idiots op and refused the little girls treatment ? , the article states they live in the same area.
In which case I would say the board that approved this mans op has a lot to answer for.