Well, being from the UK my experience is mostly with the NHS.

I think it seems to vary from Hospital to Hospital, for every bad experience I have heard of I had heard of more good experinces, even now with all the cuts in expenditure in our Health Service.

When I had my children the care was great, I had a c-section the first time and was in hospital for nearly 14 days the attention I recieved regarding the nursing - considering I had my first baby and also cos I had a c-section - was without fault. When had my second child the care I received was again very good, the only thing that I thought was different was perhaps the nurses didn't seem to have so much time with their patients and were rushing around.

My kids had e-coli nearly 10 years ago and both were admitted to hospital, my eldest needed kidney dyalisis (sp)and was when admitted to hospital critically ill the hospital staff were truly amazing, the main Dr or specialist I guess attending my son was there first thing in the mornng till late at night, the nursing staff were also amazing, my other son was in another ward, and although he wasn't so seriously ill his care was great too. The care they both recieved was excellent and I was truly amazed at the dedication from all the nursing staff and the Drs. They both made a full recovery and this is in no doubt because of the care that they had during their stay in hospital.

I have had other experiences of the NHS a family member had cancer and again his care was very good. I would again just say that the main difference I have noticed over the last 15 years or so is that the staff don't seem to get a minute and are very very busy, I think this is probably because they need more staff but because of constant cuts in funding they can't employ them.

I am not going to say that I have not heard bad or indeed horror stories about our NHS in this country cos I have, but I am just going on my own experiences.

I think perhaps half the problem regarding health problems because of Amalgam Fillings is that a lot of health care "professionals" don't recongnise that amalgams cause those helath problems - well in this country anyway.

I think we are so lucky to live in country where we have the NHS I could not begin to imagine the cost of what my family alone would have had to pay for our various different treatments etc over the years.

Just my experience I know as I said a lot of folk would no doubt disagree.

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