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Chinese man hacks off his own infected leg with a saw and a back-scratcher
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Do you have a left handed hammer?
evince
Truthmatters
capitalism is a tool for man to use.
Its NOT a religion to adhere blindly to.
If you don't keep ahold of it and guide it where it needs to go then it will be nothing but weapon the wealthy will use against the people.
wake up.
You CANT expect the tool to do your bidding all on its own.
Its NOT a religion to adhere blindly to.
If you don't keep ahold of it and guide it where it needs to go then it will be nothing but weapon the wealthy will use against the people.
wake up.
You CANT expect the tool to do your bidding all on its own.
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- Zheng Yanliang was suffering from massive arterial thrombosis
- Mr Yanliang took the drastic step after pain became too much to bear
- Luckily, the thrombosis stopped him bleeding too much
PUBLISHED: 11:34, 11 October 2013 | UPDATED: 23:10, 11 October 2013
A man hacked off his own leg using only a metal saw, a small fruit knife and a back scratcher wrapped with a towel because he couldn't afford hospital bills.
According to Shanghaiist.com, Zheng Yanliang, 47, from Boading city, China, began to experience bouts of pain in his abdomen that traveled to both of his legs. He was diagnosed with massive arterial thrombosis in both legs.
As the pain worsened, he decided to take the gruesome step of removing the infected limb himself to avoid the expensive hospital bill.
Excruciating: Mr Yanliang took the desperate step of removing his own infected right leg. He had been diagnosed with massive thrombosis and was in severe pain
Angiograms taken before the home amputation showed that all of the arteries in his right leg were completely gone.
Doctors told the Mr Yanliang, known in his town as being a 'tough guy', the disease was very rarely seen, and he wasn't likely to live more than a month.
For three months, Mr Yanliang was tormented by pain to the point of fuzzy consciousness, screaming so loud that his neighbors could not sleep.
He said. 'It was very painful and they gave me medication but it didn't help.'
The farmer went to several hospitals in Beijing and Hebei but every time he was simply sent home with more medication to his farm in Qingyuan county's Dongzang village
- He said: 'Sometimes the pain was so intense I would pass out, then after three months when it was really bad, they told me that an infection had set in, that I had gangrene, and that I might lose the limb.
One night, after his wife had gone to bed, Mr Yanliang found a fruit knife, a metal saw and a towel-wrapped back scratcher and began amputating his own leg.
Zheng Yanliang used the saw and the knife to cut away at the flesh while biting down on a back scratcher to help him withstand the pain
As the pain in Zheng's leg increased, he grabbed the saw and fruit knife and performed the amputation himself
Zheng Yanliang points to the wrapped up remains of his leg that he disposed of with the rest of his rubbish
He said: 'I had a wooden back scratcher, I wrapped a towel around it, and bit on it so I did not scream and wake my wife, then I used the knife to slice the skin and pull it back so I could see the bone. Then I used the saw to slice through the bone after putting a belt around the leg to stop the blood flow.
'I did not want to distress my wife, but I had to wake her when the hacksaw blade broke.'
More than 20 minutes later, his wife awoke and found him with his right leg amputated.
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 4 molars that had been bitten off.
Fortunately, because of the thrombosis, there wasn’t much blood during the amputation.
Painful: Mr Yanliag's leg was severed about 15 centimetres from his hip
Wheelchair-bound: Farmer Mr Yanliang is uable to work since the loss of his limb. He said medication he was given did not help
Farm: Up until his illness, Mr Yanliang ran the family farm
The operation saved his life, but now the open wound that still shows a stump of bone has led to a fresh infection, this time in his left leg.
Doctors say he will not be able to save his remaining foot - and he needs an operation if he is not to lose the entire left leg.
As Zheng's condition worsens, Zheng's wife, who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, is forced to tend to the farm on her own.
The family's only financial support comes from their 17-year-old daughter, who dropped out of school to take a job.
Mr Yanliang is now asking his community to help pay for an artificial limb, so that he can carry on with his life and take care of his family.
The local reporter who covered the story has opened a phone line for donations from readers.
Treatment: Zheng Yanliang (right) now faces an uncertain future and needs to raise more money for another operation
Struggle: Mr Yanliang's wife, who has her own health problems, is tending to their farm. The family's only financial support comes from their 17-year-old daughter who dropped out of school to help her parents
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-leg-save-hospital-bills.html#ixzz2hVhoM8FF
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Maybe our man from New Orleans Topspin, who is always telling everybody about his huge pile of dosh could help this man?
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Instead of hijacking other threads why can't you just create your own? Have you never heard of netiquette?
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Not much, Desh is an irony free zone.
evince
Truthmatters
Whilst you are all arguing about the ACA, here is the reality in China.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2454131/Chinese-man-amputates-leg-save-hospital-bills.html
remember your talking points?
ACA is not capitalist enough for you guys remember
Health care rationing is nothing new. Get used to it if Obamacare morphs into single-payer and the government takes over the medical industry.
Liberal states often preview health-care central planning before the same regulations go national, which ought to make an Oregon cost-control commission especially scary. On Thursday a state board could change Oregon’s Medicaid program to deny costly care to poor patients who need it most.
Like most such panels, including the Affordable Care Act’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, the Oregon Health Evidence Review Commission, or HERC, claims to be merely concerned with what supposedly works and what doesn’t. Their real targets are usually advanced, costly treatments.
That’s why HERC, for example, proposed in May that Medicaid should not cover “treatment with intent to prolong survival” for cancer patients who likely have fewer than two years left to live.
HERC presents an example to show their reasoning for such a decision: “In no instance can it be justified to spend $100,000 in public resources to increase an individual’s expected survival by three months.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/355343/healthcare-rationing-oregon-style
Liberal states often preview health-care central planning before the same regulations go national, which ought to make an Oregon cost-control commission especially scary. On Thursday a state board could change Oregon’s Medicaid program to deny costly care to poor patients who need it most.
Like most such panels, including the Affordable Care Act’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, the Oregon Health Evidence Review Commission, or HERC, claims to be merely concerned with what supposedly works and what doesn’t. Their real targets are usually advanced, costly treatments.
That’s why HERC, for example, proposed in May that Medicaid should not cover “treatment with intent to prolong survival” for cancer patients who likely have fewer than two years left to live.
HERC presents an example to show their reasoning for such a decision: “In no instance can it be justified to spend $100,000 in public resources to increase an individual’s expected survival by three months.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/355343/healthcare-rationing-oregon-style
The past is prologue:
The author who advocates limiting health care to the aged is 83 himself
I hate the men who would prolong their lives
By foods and drinks and charms of magic art
Perverting nature's course to keep off death
They ought, when they no longer serve the land
To quit this life, and clear the way for youth.
-Euripides 500 B.C.
Has the time come when we decide that prolonging the lives of the elderly who "no longer serve the land" is truly a burden on the youth of society?
Is the day of rationing our nation's health care services on the basis of age close at hand? As the ranks of the elderly swell, and demands on the nation's scarce health care resources increase, the once whispered suggestions that health care should be rationed by age are now growing audible.
Currently, about 12% of the population is 65 years or older. By the year 2030, that figure is expected to reach 21%. The fastest growing age group is the population aged 80 and over -- the very segment of the population that tends to require expensive and intensive medical care.
The projected demands from a growing elderly population on a health care system that is already taxed to the breaking point, together with continual advances and availability of expensive life-extending technology, have led to troubling questions about society's ability to meet future health care demands, and to the increased tolerance of proposals for rationing.
Perhaps the most prominent advocate of aged-based rationing is Daniel Callahan, author of Setting Limits. In this book, Callahan proposed that the government refuse to pay for life-extending medical care for individuals beyond the age of 70 or 80, and only pay for routine care aimed at relieving their pain.
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v3n3/age.html
The author who advocates limiting health care to the aged is 83 himself
I hate the men who would prolong their lives
By foods and drinks and charms of magic art
Perverting nature's course to keep off death
They ought, when they no longer serve the land
To quit this life, and clear the way for youth.
-Euripides 500 B.C.
Has the time come when we decide that prolonging the lives of the elderly who "no longer serve the land" is truly a burden on the youth of society?
Is the day of rationing our nation's health care services on the basis of age close at hand? As the ranks of the elderly swell, and demands on the nation's scarce health care resources increase, the once whispered suggestions that health care should be rationed by age are now growing audible.
Currently, about 12% of the population is 65 years or older. By the year 2030, that figure is expected to reach 21%. The fastest growing age group is the population aged 80 and over -- the very segment of the population that tends to require expensive and intensive medical care.
The projected demands from a growing elderly population on a health care system that is already taxed to the breaking point, together with continual advances and availability of expensive life-extending technology, have led to troubling questions about society's ability to meet future health care demands, and to the increased tolerance of proposals for rationing.
Perhaps the most prominent advocate of aged-based rationing is Daniel Callahan, author of Setting Limits. In this book, Callahan proposed that the government refuse to pay for life-extending medical care for individuals beyond the age of 70 or 80, and only pay for routine care aimed at relieving their pain.
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v3n3/age.html
evince
Truthmatters
Do you know why the tribes of old tried REAL hard to keep their elderly alive?
Love was one big reason but not the only one.
Humans who have lived a long time are a great source of information about many things.
You want to have them abandoned in a field to die.
why?
because its easier for the sociopaths to fool the young who have not yet seen as much of life in action as elderly people have
Love was one big reason but not the only one.
Humans who have lived a long time are a great source of information about many things.
You want to have them abandoned in a field to die.
why?
because its easier for the sociopaths to fool the young who have not yet seen as much of life in action as elderly people have