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I think he shiuld be immediately added to that list; if medical misadventure/mistakes isn't a reason for transplant surgery then it certainly should be.
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I was talking to a man the other day whose brother in-law had a heart valve transplant at Bowen Hospital in Wellington. The valve was too small and had to be replaced. Then complications and a transfer to Wellington Hospital where he died.
Bowen was now chasing his sister for another $7,000 !!!
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Thats a pretty sad story, imagine going through this surgery and waking up to learn that news, it baffles me how they can get things like this wrong.
Quite often the surgeons never get held to account.
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One would hope ACC come to the party.
I know someone who was paralysed after a mishap from spinal surgery and ACC covered everything.
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Not as if ACC can't afford it...
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(13-03-2025, 01:22 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Not as if ACC can't afford it...
But thanks to the slash & bash govt we have now, that may not always be possible.
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I thought ACC was too busy playing the overseas stock markets these days.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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