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[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Hansen)]

On 2 Sep 2003 at 11:10, Owen Lewis wrote:

> > 2.  hospitals are mainly too small, actually, for them to be as
> > good as we would like them to be at various things.
> 
> 	-	When a sick lady of 84 is told she must get herself (or be ferried at
> quite unnecessary expense) some 30-40 miles on a weekly basis to have her
> blood sample drawn,  bureaucracy has run mad.

While I wouldn't go as far as Owen in my invective I too look on calls 
for bigger, more remote medical "facilities" with a great deal of 
distrust.

It's all very well to talk of, "rapid transit to a hospital", but the 
reality of large hospitals built in fields in the middle of nowhere is 
that they have been designed by motorists for motorists. This of course 
has nothing to do with the long links between (most of) the medical mob 
and the motoring lobby. They may have a token bus service, provided for 
loosers, but that's it. 

I did note sadly that the last (edge of town) hospital I visited 
appeared to have precisely zero cycle parking spaces for visitors, a 
largish car park and a token bus service with a bus stop far further 
away from the entrance than the favoured motorists could park. It 
didn't surprise me, but it is still sad. Cycling there involved to 
involve negotiating a large high speed roundabout while going uphill, 
not a pleasant thought. Inside the hospital they were treating medical 
conditions caused by the sedentary lifestyle the hospital is 
encouraging.


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