Topic: see, free heathcare is available for resourceful people
squeegee !first/o5zA started this discussion 13 years ago#32,039
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A Chinese man has amputated his own leg using nothing more than a saw and a fruit knife, after doctors told him an infection had left him just one month to live.
Zheng Yanliang, 47, was apparently known as his home town’s tough guy even before he was forced to take matters into his own hands.
Suffering from severe arterial thrombosis in both legs, surviving on a diet of ineffective painkillers in searing daily pain, and unable to pay the hospital’s fee for surgery, Zheng was forced into the makeshift surgery.
Biting down on a wooden back scratcher wrapped in a towel, he successfully removed his own leg about 15cm below the hip.
According to Shanghaist, Zheng waited until his wife had gone to bed before getting started.
“Over 20 minutes later, when [his wife] returned to the eastern bedroom after awaking from a nightmare, she was dumbstruck by the scene.
“Her husband’s right leg had been sawed off about 15 centimeters from the hip, and the metal saw used for the amputation had snapped into two from the excessive force, and on the table were four molars that had been bitten off. Fortunately, because of the thrombosis, there wasn’t much blood during the amputation.”
Early last year, Zheng, a farmer from a village in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, began to experience bursts of excruciating pain in his stomach, which shot down both legs.
When his local GP couldn’t diagnose the problem, he was bounced through the ineffective Chinese healthcare system, heading first to a hospital in the nearby city of Baoding, and then to Beijing, where he was diagnosed with the embolism, told it was incurable, and given a month to live - alongside a fat bill.
Three months on, he was still alive, suffering through bouts of dizziness and pain so acute he kept his neighbours awake with the screams.
Even though his ersatz surgery was successful, a year and a half on, his left leg is still infected, and now Zheng has gone public in an attempt to attract charity. He claims his only source of income is a stipend from his 17-year-old daughter, who works in a shoe factory, and that his wife is suffering from diabetes.
According to Sky News, the coverage of the story has lead Dr Zhang Qiang, from the Shanghai Wode Medical Centre, to promise to cover all of Zheng’s medical costs from now on.
"My medical colleagues and I will provide him with free medical services," Dr Zhang said on his microblog.[border]
Syntax joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 13 minutes later[^][v]#449,185
China LoL
I have been learning far too much about China recently. Traveled there several tymes yet only now am I finding out about the behind the scenes and back alley ways of China.
Reminds me - back when Matt was in Beijing and in a hospital with a case of TB, he described the horrid conditions of that hospital. They were not even equipped to feed patients. So at least Zheng Yanliang is home with a stove of some sort for meals.
squeegee !first/o5zA (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 minutes after the original post[^][v]#449,186
@previous (Syntax)
thank god for obamacare, right?
Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^][v]#449,187
@previous (squeegee !first/o5zA)
I have to be neutral on that. I am covered by multiple health care polices but its rare for me to see a doctor. Last tyme I did it was in NSW Australia and I paid the $25 fee and forgot to expense it.
Other then being forced to take those silly annual check ups one client insists on and of course THEY are an insurance company.
For the populace at large someThing in necessary for healthcare. I have lots of friends who work in hospitals locally and the horror stories of the ER system and how it is forced to pick up and deal with those without insurance. Gov system seems to work for lots of other countries.
So I look at HillaryCare as a first step and someTimes first steps are tricky.
Pisses me off I had to change my investment strategy to overcome this Shutdown non-sense.
Postmortem !!FVJOHfXUk joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#449,210
Not impressed. He should have gone the charity route before he cut off his own leg, I'm not wowed by his ability to tolerate pain, or his bravery. Swallow your fucking pride, you moron. Now you have an infection, and no leg. Congrat.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 8 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#449,244
@OP
Interesting because China was (still nominally is) a communist country. I thought communism would have provided healthcare for all the workers.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 10 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,282
Heathcare?
doctor dw md !jdTkvovFCQ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,287
@previous (E)
its where heath ledger cares for you
Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 33 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,290
Thanks thanx T.Hanks
Conservative !KansasxqvM joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,303
This guy pulled himself up by his bootstrap and took care of himself! No mooching off the system for this fine example of a human being. You libtards could learn a thing or two from him. WAKE UP MORONS.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,325
@449,287 (doctor dw md !jdTkvovFCQ)
but hes dead dw :(
decibelmilliwatts !!8lSAEPzaj joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,344
@449,244 (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
China is a laughable excuse for any kind of socialism. It'd taken a turn for the capitalist forty years ago.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 59 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,345
@previous (decibelmilliwatts !!8lSAEPzaj)
Correct. Much the same could be said about Cuba, and Vietnam, and whatever North Korea is today, it sure isn't communist (all references to Marxism-Leninism have been purged from the constitution). One way of looking at it is that Reagan was right: communism has been left on the ash heap of history. It's just an unworkable socioeconomic system.
decibelmilliwatts !!8lSAEPzaj replied with this 13 years ago, 33 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,348
@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
It'll prove to be much more workable than capitalism in the longer run, I suspect.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 23 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,352
@previous (decibelmilliwatts !!8lSAEPzaj)
Why do you suspect that? It's been abandoned in every society that tried it.
decibelmilliwatts !!8lSAEPzaj replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#449,354
@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
It was never really abandoned - these ~revolutions~ tend to be run by power-hungry bourgeoisie who capitalise on the anger of the people to get themselves thrust into power. <_<