Lucky her for not ending up in a cubicle.

Farking Triage. How does it work?

BigNumber12: If it can't be cured, then what in the hell is she complaining about? Why is she even taking up a bed at a hospital? Sounds like a welfare queen to me.

I know this comment is trollesque, but the hospital personnel are probably thinking the same thing: "Hurry up and die already, so we stop throwing away money on treatment that can't help you, and at best, will only make you slightly less miserable for your short time left."

Just dose her up on morphine and send her out happy.

FTFA:

To accommodate NATO's Secretary-General, hospital staff removed Larsen to a windowless office without an emergency alarm. Staff told her that if she needed attention she should bang on a teacup with a spoon.

Wow.

Your incurable cancer will be just as incurable next door. On the other hand, this man we can help.

Well, who is going to bring in repeat business? Seems like a perfectly reasonable business decision.

Maybe she sould consider not being sick, thereby not taking up valuable space that would be better used by someone much more important than she is.

Yogimus: Your incurable cancer will be just as incurable next door. On the other hand, this man we can help.

And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private space.

Heck in 100 years they'll both be dead anyway. Under your theory why treat either of them? Pain and suffering doesn't matter if you're going to die, right?

Incurable cancer is incurable

We won't have problems like this once Obama takes over our healthcare. We'll have the best medical system on earth - with the efficiency of the DMV and the compassion of the IRS.

cgraves67: Farking Triage. How does it work?

Not here apparently.

Really, what do you expect? He has raised himself to a position of respect for EXACTLY this reason. To get better treatment than everyone else.

Why else would you do what he has done?

BigSlowTarget: And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private spa

BigSlowTarget: Yogimus: Your incurable cancer will be just as incurable next door. On the other hand, this man we can help.

And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private space.

Heck in 100 years they'll both be dead anyway. Under your theory why treat either of them? Pain and suffering doesn't matter if you're going to die, right?

PROTIP: Security for a high value target means that this was most likely the easiest solution for everyone. Sorry bout her cancer, and the hospital treated her shiatty, but try to be a useful member of society before you start biatchin about "perks". (like your own room)

BigSlowTarget: Yogimus: Your incurable cancer will be just as incurable next door. On the other hand, this man we can help.

And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private space.

Heck in 100 years they'll both be dead anyway. Under your theory why treat either of them? Pain and suffering doesn't matter if you're going to die, right?

Pish she doesn't have her own army what did she think was going to happen? That she'd be treated like a human being? Oh, right she's from Denmark not America, how would she know.

Yogimus: BigSlowTarget: And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private spa

BigSlowTarget: Yogimus: Your incurable cancer will be just as incurable next door. On the other hand, this man we can help.

And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private space.

Heck in 100 years they'll both be dead anyway. Under your theory why treat either of them? Pain and suffering doesn't matter if you're going to die, right?

PROTIP: Security for a high value target means that this was most likely the easiest solution for everyone. Sorry bout her cancer, and the hospital treated her shiatty, but try to be a useful member of society before you start biatchin about "perks". (like your own room)

PROTIP: A windowless office is probably a more "secure" location for a "high value target"

Goddamned souless American for profit healthcare industry. This is what happens when you let money determine who gets care and who is thrown to the wolves.

Why can't we be more like the Europeans who show compassion and treat everyone equally?

Yogimus: PROTIP: Security for a high value target means that this was most likely the easiest solution for everyone. Sorry bout her cancer, and the hospital treated her shiatty, but try to be a useful member of society before you start biatchin about "perks". (like your own room)

I dunno, it seems that he would have been better secured in a windowless room, where even without a call button, he presumably had a bodyguard or two hanging around that could call a nurse if something went wrong.

I don't think moving the patient was obviously the worse idea, but the moment a nurse had to tell her to bang on a teacup with a spoon, someone with more brain cells should have rethought their cunning plan.

"Psst...Hey, don't worry about it. Just pretend to be a moderate a few years later & everyone will forget it ever happened!"

Yogimus: BigSlowTarget: And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private spa

BigSlowTarget: Yogimus: Your incurable cancer will be just as incurable next door. On the other hand, this man we can help.

And being left lying in your own vomit is not something we choose to help you with when we have important politicians needing attention and private space.

Heck in 100 years they'll both be dead anyway. Under your theory why treat either of them? Pain and suffering doesn't matter if you're going to die, right?

PROTIP: Security for a high value target means that this was most likely the easiest solution for everyone. Sorry bout her cancer, and the hospital treated her shiatty, but try to be a useful member of society before you start biatchin about "perks". (like your own room)

ULTRAPROTIP: Hospitals typically have more than one patient at a time. They should've found someone better able to tolerate being reassigned to a windowless office with no nurse call system than a terminally ill cancer patient. Perhaps someone who could bang louder on a tea cup when they needed a bucket to puke in.

devildog123: This has been on the main page for almost 40 minutes. I wonder how many comments there would be if this was about some soulless American hospital, and not a nice, government funded Danish one?

Good question. Why don't you find one and submit it?

WTF? Is this a one room hospital so that this was the only choice they had?

At least she was able to get into a hospital room there. Hospitals here would have just left her in the hallway outside the room (so she could watch the secretary general get treated), then sued her family for what her insurance (if she had any) didn't pay after she croaked.

inb4 - Yes, we ration care here already, we just don't ration it rationally.

Yogimus: but try to be a useful member of society before you start biatchin about "perks". (like your own room)

You mean because you have magically determined that Susanne Larsen isn't a useful member of society or because you feel that it is appropriate for anyone but political figures to lie in their own vomit as necessary?

BTW - who said she should get her own room? One with basic services or if she was truly terminal then a hospice would have been fine. Having the level of your government guaranteed medical services determined primarily by your political pull is exactly what is wrong with government.

Harv72b: "I have been approached by a patient through her lawyer and have looked into the case. As the case looks now I apologise for the incident and I know that the ward has now taken steps to make sure it does not happen again."

He took away the Secretary General's bike?

devildog123: This has been on the main page for almost 40 minutes. I wonder how many comments there would be if this was about some soulless American hospital, and not a nice, government funded Danish one?

This is just proof that there can be assholes everywhere, even in Danish hospitals, but here it's encouraged. Celebrated, even. It's the American^tm way.

Some people are more important than others. This has been a fact of life since recorded history. If it bothers you, work to change it... but don't dare act like you're surprised.

Uhh... it's a broken arm. Why does he even need a room?
Isn't that shiat basically outpatient these days?

the glories of socialist health care.

She should send a strongly worded letter, maybe impose some sanctions.

fredsnake: the glories of socialist health care.

I know, patients are always treated so well here in the good ol' USofA.

schief2: Mitch Taylor's Bro: ULTRAPROTIP: Hospitals typically have more than one patient at a time. They should've found someone better able to tolerate being reassigned to a windowless office with no nurse call system than a terminally ill cancer patient. Perhaps someone who could bang louder on a tea cup when they needed a bucket to puke in.

So instead of leaving her with a teacup and a spoon to bang when she needs a puke bucket, why not just leave her with the puke bucket? Done and done.

Intriguing idea. But they'd need a bucket for the other end, too. Perhaps they just could've stuck her in a bathroom? See? There are so many good options these idiots never even considered!

ringersol: Uhh... it's a broken arm. Why does he even need a room?
Isn't that shiat basically outpatient these days?

NATO guy obviously can't be trusted to keep himself healthy. Denmark is currently covering every exposed surface with bubble wrap to protect him.

j/k... he was admitted for an operation, which means he might need to stay overnight to recover from anesthesia. Plus, if it's a bad fracture, he might need pins, rods, etc. to stabilize it, which leads to a big incision, possible infection, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, he probably needed a room. I just think they chose...poorly...when deciding which other patient to bump to get him one, and the "room" they put her in was even worse.

My dad was a cancer patient. Whenever he went to the hospital they always kicked someone out of the room for him unless it was another cancer patient.

They need to have a private room because chemo suppresses the immune system.

devildog123: This has been on the main page for almost 40 minutes. I wonder how many comments there would be if this was about some soulless American hospital, and not a nice, government funded Danish one?

Are you kidding? No one reads articles. It's about health care, and it's negative. Guaranteed 90% of readers DO assume it is about an American hospital. No need to check the facts.

If she didn't like it, she should have tried to be more important.

What's the point of politically driven healthcare if politicians and their friends and contributors don't get priority?

Cockpuncher to the Stars: Guaranteed 90% of readers DO assume it is about an American hospital. No need to check the facts.

This.

There are a few trolltastic posts that confirm it.

Cockpuncher to the Stars: Guaranteed 90% of readers DO assume it is about an American hospital.

You DO know why that is, don't you? Maybe it's for the same reason convicted child molesters aren't allowed to be around children.
/unless you've lived under a rock for the last 20 years