Post by cenydd on Sept 23, 2013 10:08:13 GMT
Last year, the band Baroness were in a horrific bus crash while on tour in the UK, which resulted in 2 band members having to quit due to their injuries.
In the new issue of Metal Hammer magazine there is an interview with guitarist John Baizley (who suffered a broken left arm and broken left leg in the accident), and one thing he said was, I thought, worthy of note (and discussion):
Two aspects struck me - firstly, the possible implication that the US doctors might have been surprised at the quality of treatment form the NHS (and whether that says something about the way in which the NHS is perceived in the US), and secondly, of course, that last sentence about him possibly losing his arm had it happened in certain parts of the US.
Baroness's tour bus was on its way from Bristol to Southampton last August when it fell 30ft (9m) from a viaduct on Brassknocker Hill in heavy rain.
Drummer Allen Blickle and bass player Matt Maggioni both suffered fractured vertebrae and have now left the group.
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"While we would never have asked them to leave; we have the utmost sympathy for this situation, and in earnest, we wish Matt and Allen the best in the future."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22020232
Drummer Allen Blickle and bass player Matt Maggioni both suffered fractured vertebrae and have now left the group.
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"While we would never have asked them to leave; we have the utmost sympathy for this situation, and in earnest, we wish Matt and Allen the best in the future."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22020232
In the new issue of Metal Hammer magazine there is an interview with guitarist John Baizley (who suffered a broken left arm and broken left leg in the accident), and one thing he said was, I thought, worthy of note (and discussion):
Though John found himself stranded in hospital in Bath as doctors puzzled over what to do with him - and as a non-citizen he had to pick up the bill for for two weeks of treatment - he is nevertheless quick to praise the UK's NHS.
“The level of immediate care we received when our injuries were acute and traumatic was unbelievable,” adds John of the band’s experiences of UK medical care. “I’ve had several American doctors be overwhelmingly impressed by the thoroughness and quality of the treatment I received in the UK. They said that if it had happened in certain parts of the US I might not have retained my arm.”
(Quoted from Metal Hammer October 2013 Issue, Page 47)
(Quote from Baizley also available here: www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/john-baizley-on-baroness-bus-crash-if-it-had-happened-in-america-i-might-not-have-retained-my-arm/)
“The level of immediate care we received when our injuries were acute and traumatic was unbelievable,” adds John of the band’s experiences of UK medical care. “I’ve had several American doctors be overwhelmingly impressed by the thoroughness and quality of the treatment I received in the UK. They said that if it had happened in certain parts of the US I might not have retained my arm.”
(Quoted from Metal Hammer October 2013 Issue, Page 47)
(Quote from Baizley also available here: www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/john-baizley-on-baroness-bus-crash-if-it-had-happened-in-america-i-might-not-have-retained-my-arm/)
Two aspects struck me - firstly, the possible implication that the US doctors might have been surprised at the quality of treatment form the NHS (and whether that says something about the way in which the NHS is perceived in the US), and secondly, of course, that last sentence about him possibly losing his arm had it happened in certain parts of the US.