Cancer Scare, Who Cares?
Nowadays, the words ‘Cancer’ and ‘Scare’ have become all too well-acquainted and, I for one, am sick of it. I am sick of the intransigence of the Health service. I am sick of hearing of women living a death sentence because correct procedures were not carried out when they were screened. I am sick hearing that the women could have been treated early, if screening had been accurate. The point is, I am not sick at all. They are the ones that are sick. They are the victims. They are the ones who are planning their funerals knowing that they will never see their kids’ weddings. Never hold their grandchildren. Never die old. I am sick and tired of this. And you ought to be too.
Our ballooning Health service is a shame. Good workers in it are being cast in under a dark light. Clumped in with inept workers that give women breast scans the all-clear when they have cancer, those that remove the women’s wombs and others that retain the organs of infants.Ineptitude, sick pleasure, gross insensitivity and moral bankruptcy. People who have these characteristics are ruining the Health service. They are violating the trust the Irish nation gives it. They are destroying the credibility of their caring, educated and professional co-workers. They are maiming and killing thousands. Where is the outrage?
Some time ago I defended Mary Harney for the roasting she got in the media about cancer scare. I still believe she’s doing her best to cut the fat out of the Health service. This process is long and hard. But it doesn’t take from the cold fact that people are still dying. Cancer is a cruel mistress. She doesn’t suffer fools. The inability of the Health minister to restructure the Health Service is stymied by successive Irish governments cutting health resources in the 80’s and chickening out of necessary change management ever since.
Mary, read this, and get off your arse and do more. If you woke up tomorrow and found a lump, how would you feel? Let’s forget for a second, the cushy private care you could well afford and look at the public Health service. Would you have confidence in the Health service? Or would you start planning you funeral? Via Bock.