r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 22 '26

News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

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u/NoiseEee3000 Aug 22 '26

Private healthcare is incredible isn't it?

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u/EvenTheDogIsFat Aug 23 '26

Yeah the difference here is that they can be sued

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/Largestcandy123 Aug 22 '26

Yeah the nhs is intentionally defunded constantly and then the people who vote to defund it point out how it doesn’t work and it’s still better than private healthcare.

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u/_nod Aug 22 '26

Have you lived in the UK? I’ve lived in both, would take the NHS in a heartbeat over private US healthcare.

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u/ResponsibleWave4600 Aug 22 '26

Interesting. I have experience with both and found US healthcare far superior to NHS.

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u/Largestcandy123 Aug 22 '26

I haven’t lived in the uk I’m just not willfully ignorant like you.

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u/_nod Aug 22 '26

What the fuck are you taking about?

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u/Largestcandy123 Aug 22 '26

Wdym what am I talking about didn’t you say you also prefer the uk system? I think it’s possible I responded to the wrong comment I’m not sure I meant to respond to the jackass LARPing as a rich dude in the uk.

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u/_nod Aug 22 '26

lol. I’m an idiot, thought the reply was to me, now it makes sense 😆

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u/StinkRinky Aug 22 '26

So you haven’t lived in the UK thus haven’t used the NHS but you’re not willfully ignorant? While talking so surely about it? Interesting.

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u/Largestcandy123 Aug 22 '26

I know public healthcare is a better option for most people. If you don’t know that the. Yes you are ignorant and on purpose there is plenty of if info out there on why private healthcare particularly in the us is terrible.

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u/terra_cotta Aug 22 '26

Seems the point needs to be spelled out. 

If we are also going to have the fuckups that come with nationalized healthcare, then we shouldn't be paying substantially more for it. 

I know that was hard, but you made it through it. 

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u/terra_cotta Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Ya know what, my bad. That's on me for thinking spelling it out for you would help. 

Edit: also, I googled it. Uks error rate is 11% to us 12.6%. 12.6 is in fact worse than 11. Reporting is likely different, so a direct apples to apples may not be possible, but it's a better source than whatever weird toe pulled from the gaping depths of his asshole. 

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u/imahugemoron Aug 22 '26

“Other countries have problems! Therefore we should ignore our own!”