My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

One (1) of my friends dog recently fell ill - i hope for her sake she gets better, but the thing that amazed me was that in the middle of the night on a saturday night the dog managed to get an emergency x-ray and emergency surgery done on the sunday. If this was a person the same treatment would not have happened in this day and age. The 80's and 90's when we had a medical system with "doctors" and "nurses" and "hospitals" - sure people and patients were looked after - but now? Now there's no doctor or radiologist or any one that works in a rural area on the weekends. The person would get transferred to the hospital, the hospital would have one (1) or two (2) medics on call who would stabilise, the person would then get transferred 300km's away or be left stabilised until the monday morning when the specialist could look at them, by which times they'd be dead - it is amazing how they manage to pull it all together for a pet but not for a human.

Now - don't get me wrong - I love animals - I just think that there is something wrong when our veterinary system is better than our healthcare system. They should be as good or bad as each other. Equality is a bastard.