Denmark, a nice country... as long as you're healthy!!!!

When I tell people where I am from, the most common response is "WOW, Denmark?"It seems like Denmark in the eyes of people outside of Europe, is some exotic country.

But let me tell you, it is not exotic and no drugs are not legal and meds not free here.
As a matter of fact on top of the insanely high tax you also risk paying an even greater price for living here in "paradise". You risk your life and well being.

Exaggerating? Not at all.

In may 2006 Denmark was number two on the list of countries with the most medical malpractice. 29% of people had relatives that had experienced serious malpractice. That, for a rich country, is not acceptable.

One example of the very serious malpractice, that lead to death, is a case where a doctor on emergency duty missed a case of meningitis. When the 15year old kid was seizures and going unresponsive the emergency call centre turned his family down THREE times.
Then they took him themselves and found out it was meningitis and it had already destroyed half of his brain. They tried to operate on him, but too late.

The worst of it all is that if he had gotten help just 3 hours earlier, he might have survived it.

There are plenty of examples like that

A 47year old woman dies from an asthma attack because the emergency call centre wouldnt send an ambulance and the doc on duty just said over the phone to her husband that she needed to use her inhaler. She died.

A 19 year old girl injures her back in a car accident. The doctors take xrays that reveal nothing. They give her painkillers and send her home. She's almost paralized by pain though and returns for more xrays, that still dont reveal anything.
The thing is, they dont xray the part of her back that she points out is hurting her.
When they finally do, they find a fracture, that has been there since the accident MONTHS ago. She may have trouble with that the rest of her life and not be able to finish her education.

These are more recent examples, but there are tons!

Where do all the tax money go, when the healthcare system obviously suck like that?

I don't feel safe in this country.