Hey, At Least They Gave The Guy Morphine

When you “free health care for everyone!” knuckleheads fall and hurt yourselves, don’t come running to me.

British doctors are refusing to perform surgery on a man with a multiply fractured ankle because he’s a smoker. “Doctors at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro have refused to operate,” reports the Daily Mail, “because they say his heavy smoking would reduce the chance of healing, and there is a risk of complications which could lead to amputation.” But at least they’re willing to give him morphine for the agonizing pain caused by the injury they refuse to fix.

Sullum makes an excellent, and what I’d think would be obvious, point about what happens when resources get scarce.

(via Jonah Goldberg)

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