May 7, 2007
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The way people's minds work simply baffles me.
From a story at MSNBC: Big-spending Briton wants payback for cancer scare
LONDON - A British man who went on a wild
spending spree after doctors said he only had a short time to live
wants compensation because the diagnosis was wrong and he is now
healthy -- but broke.John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told that he would probably die within a year.
He
quit his job, sold or gave away nearly all his possessions, stopped
paying his mortgage and spent his savings dining out and going on
holiday.Brandrick was left with little more than the
black suit, white shirt and red tie that he had planned to be buried in
when it emerged a year later that his suspected "tumor" was no more
than a non-life threatening inflammation of the pancreas."When
they tell you you've got a limited time and everything, you do enjoy
life," Brandrick, from Cornwall in the west of England, told Sky
television."I'm
really pleased that I've got a second chance in life... but if you
haven't got no money after all this, which is my fault -- I spent it
all -- they should pay something back."If
he can't get compensation, he is considering selling his house or suing
the hospital that diagnosed him. The hospital has said that while it
sympathizes with Brandrick, a review of his case showed no different
diagnosis would have been made.Did y'all catch that? "... if you
haven’t got no money after all this, which is my fault -- I spent it
all -- they should pay something back."He acknowledges his idiotic, ill-advised spending spree was his own fault, yet he still feels he's owed compensation due to his irresponsibility? He stopped paying his mortgage? Since when does his ill health and presumed impending demise mitigate his obligation to repay the loan on his house?
I don't recall an escape clause like that in our mortgage.
Comments (4)
Well, that's certainly the classic "good news, bad news" scenario, isn't it? And what else should we expect in this socialistic age but that the gummit must make us whole when something goes wrong in our lives, whether or not it was our own stupid self that got us into the pickle?
Always deeply comforted to know that jackassery isn't limited to this side of the Atlantic.
That makes me mad. It's people like that and thier stupid ideas to sue hospitals and doctors that makes our health system the way it is. Give the doctors a break. They are doing their best. Only God knows what is really wrong with you and why. Doctors just have so much knowledge from studying, that they can make guesses, do tests, and treat what they have found.
It's the same with having a baby (a process God made perfect in the way a woman's body and baby work together, except in the maybe 3% who have true complications). I trust in God and my body to labor and birth our baby without interventions (like continuous fetal monitoring and a routine IV, etc.). I am very grateful to have the caregivers there to catch any complications that could come up, though, but that is what they are there for. Unfortunately, I can't really trust what the doctors say and go with it because they do so much "just in case" precautions (even though whatever it is could effect 1-2 in ever 5,000 mommy's and babies). Plus, our hospital system has 20-40 % C-section rate (Maybe 5% are actually necessary emergency situations that call for c-section)
The problem is, People sue for wrongful death, and even wrongful life (some people were not given the option of amniocenteces to see if their baby had and abnormalities, adn when they gave birth to a baby with down syndrom, they sued for wrongful life because they could have aborted when they found out, and now they are 'stuck' with this baby). GGGGRRRRRR. That makes me soooooo mad. I'll take that sweet baby off your hands for you. What a story for the baby book and to tell your child as she gets older. Poor thing.
OK, sorry for the tangents. I hate these situations. Trust in God. He is all you need, in life and death. Sueing anyone doesn't make anything go away.
Well, he doesn't want anything to go away...he wants the hospital to reimburse him the money he blew because he was told he was dying, only it turned out he wasn't.
What a doofus! In any case, people often outlive doctors' predictions. What if he'd had pancreatic cancer but was still alive two years later? When do you suppose he got a clue that he wasn't about to be pushing up daisies anytime soon?
When he still felt okay six months after the wrong diagnosis? Eight months? Ten months?
A year? Did he have himself a whale of a time for a solid YEAR before finally wondering, "Hmmm. Shouldn't I be at least in the hospice or something by now?"
People are crackers, on the whole. Always have been, and until Christ returns, always will be.
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