So violent crimes by hospital staff means universal health care is bad? Really? Are you retarded, submitter? At least then you'd have an excuse.

Asa Phelps: Once again I'd like to point out that we founded this country with the ideal that we can run things better than the english.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Read the article, you twit! It's about attacks on staff, not attacks by staff. There's a difference.

Attacks by staff in the NHS are called treatment.

Damn, looks like Drew's mom has mod duty again.

feckingmorons: On staff not by staff.

Glad to see this has been taken care of.

ftfa:

"In April 2006, trainee accountant and former altar boy Stuart Harling, 19, stabbed nurse Cheryl Moss, 33, more than 70 times in a frenzied attack.

He had spent months playing violent computer games and researching how to kill."

1) this has nothing to do w/NHS and article states elsewhere that most violence occurs in emergency rooms, also unrelated to NHS, esp. since e-rooms are not final recourse in a socialized system: submitterfail
2) former altar boy? Yeah, video games are to blame: articlefail
3) spent months researching killing and still took 70 stabs to kill?: psychokidfail (ok, maybe she died on stab 1 and the rest was elaboration)

It's very efficient of the staff to keep their violent attacks inside the hospitals, rather than go out and wander the streets looking for people to attack.

GAT_00: Good thing nobody wants full socialized medicine like England. We want a Single-Payer system.

You know the knuckleheads don't even realize there's a difference right?

sigdiamond2000: Your account was created in 2005 and you have over 1,000 greenlights. Are you still, after all this time, surprised and outraged by the level of discourse on Fark? Are you just really stupid or are you just faking outrage?

Pssssst! He's the submitter!

Please no violence on Guy Fawkes Day. M'kay?

My mum worked ER in New Orleans 40 years ago, and says it was the same as this.

Near as I can tell, the article says that heavy drinking turns idiots into d-bags, the fuzz are handling it poorly, and NHS is caught in the middle.

We all agree the system needs fixing. We disagree on the method by which the fixing should be accomplished.

sigdiamond2000: Sensei Can You See: Oooh! Oooh! Is this that one thread where somebody goes...[insert something here]...I LOVE that thread!

Is every post you make a variation on this?

Your account was created in 2005 and you have over 1,000 greenlights. Are you still, after all this time, surprised and outraged by the level of discourse on Fark? Are you just really stupid or are you just faking outrage?

Considering the discrepancy between the headline and the article, my guess is that he is illiterate and unable to actually read the threads.

Well I'm not surprised. The US military has socialized medicine and look what happened today! The shrinks are killing people!

I'm an RN in Houston, and it's the same over here. Hospitals are buying so much in the customer service model that the staff are chided for angering the patients.

Great moments in socialized medicine #2,802: More violent crimes are committed in Britain's hospitals by staff than almost anywhere else in the country

More violent crimes are committed in Britain...than almost anywhere else in the country

in Britain...than almost anywhere else in the country

Britain...anywhere else in the country

wat

I think a rape happened up there.

Clearly the violence stems from their system of bill payment.

LOL @ the butthurt coming from the socialized medicine sheep

I'm no fan of socialized anything, but this doesn't sound like any fault of the medical system. If you ask me, they need to spend a little more quality time beating their criminals into submission.

So if we have "socialized" medicine every hospital will be like ER? I can handle that. I'm all for Linda Cardellini and young Sherri Stringfield.

If british people had to live in a country with the british health care system, they'd all be dead! I heard it on Fox News and Fark.com, my #1 and #2 sources for news for the retarded.

subby needs to be less dumb and more "socialized"

What better place to get hurt than in a hospital?

Great, more FUD and fear-mongering for page views.

By staff. As in attacks on staff, by drunk, stupid, or mentally impaired patients.

In the US, certified Nurse Assistants are considered to have the most dangerous job in the nation in terms of the time they miss due to serious but nonfatal injuries. They are 400% more likely to experience an injury than the average worker in the USA.

http://hchcw.org/9-reasons-to-care/the-most-dangerous-job-in-the-nation

Women are more at risk in healthcare than in any other profession they regularly hold (things like crab fishing might be more dangerous, but women don't tend to hold those jobs).