Last week we noted the case of of a British woman waiting to have her gall bladder removed who had her surgery cancelled five times - and was still waiting.
Another woman in the U.K. with a similar issue is also suffering at the hands of the National Health Service:
A man whose wife has been in pain for more than a year and is still waiting for an operation has slammed the NHS.
Rachel Edmondson, 23, from Stevenage, is still waiting for gall bladder surgery despite first visiting Lister Hospital in November 2004.
Rachel told The Comet: "It has completely ruined my life."
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Rachel's husband Graham said a host of clerical errors have occurred during the year and he has labelled the NHS "completely incompetent".
He said: "This has been going on for months. No one seems to care. Rachel's quality of life is non-existent. We are at our wits end and this is completely destroying our lives."
28 Dec 2005 @ 2:04pm