NZ has a passable public health system supplemented by a passable, if expensive, private health system.
There is one aspect of health carewhich has not had enough attention, at least not until recently. Both my father and my father-in-law died of cancer. My father died some 7 years back and was able to spend his last two years at home with the family, with quite adequate pain control and monitoring.
My father-in-law died in a rest-home run by the Sisters of Mercy where he received excellent palliative care.
The “problem” (and this is where Wiley has it right in my mind) is that the health system generally ignores the importance of palliative care. The “how” is not the issue.
The fact is that palliative care is of the greatest importance to all of us who will never be cured of dying.
If Stephen Segal or the Pastafarians is the best anyone can come up with…
I was hoping that it wasn’t someone like Bishop Brian Tamaki. If that name does not ring a bell, then I am sure that there a large number of self-appointed “men of god” that could as easily qualify for the job… especially in the US.
:)Far more likely that they would reject treatment as a “pre-existing condition”.
Like dying for example.