Lifestyle Choices impacting on the NHS -Boiling my piss!!!!

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DH is currently on an NHS orthopaedics ward with around 7/8 other men.
He played 5 aside around 3 weeks ago , got bashed on the thigh and the bruise has spread and become hard and hot and painful, now infected and he needs it operated on due to risk of sepsis.

On the ward are 4 men 60 plus who have been involved in motorcycle accidents with legs in pins and have undergone several operations and been in hospital weeks ( 1 for months) as well as a young lad who was brought in yesterday following a cycling collision with another cyclist with his upper left side shattered. One other man was on a sponsored 3 peak running challenge (with a one man band scenario or such like ) and has shattered his ankle. Looking at an op tomo and a very long recuperation. yesterday a man left who had been in for three months after a skking accident with a broken hip that would not heal properly.

Am I unreasonable in thinking that with the NHS in the state it is at this current time that personal responsibility for lifestyle choices should be more of a consideration for all of us with the tax payer footing the bill for feckless and irresponsible behaviours.
It’s all avoidable surely , making better, healthier choices that do not willingly impact on limited resources.

Sports such as football, skiing, cycling, motorcross as well as mountaineering are risky to one’s health and people need to take personal responsibility.

Am I being unreasonable tax payers?

Having babies is not a lifestyle choice! At present the birth rate has dropped so low that having a baby is considered useful and generally helpful to whole society in terms of keeping the population balanced.

You would have enjoyed the rant and a and e doctor has to me about downhill mountain bikers (luckily I was on for a different sporting injury) lol

This thread is ridiculous 😂
How about the money and resources it would take to fact check the stories people told to try and get treatment if such a ridiculous system be put into place.

I think you are attacking it in the wrong way. It's not the injuries that they have come in with that are the issue. More so that they should perhaps be in the best physical position to get discharged quicker or stay back out of the system. Everybody has the ability to get hurt, break things whilst enjoying their lives etc. However the older gentlemen should perhaps be physically fit and within a healthy BMI so he doesn't spend extra months trying to get mobile. The young lad I imagine is healthy generally but perhaps when he is discharged he ensures he is on a decent return to work and doesn't require further surgery by going back too soon. Everybody taking on personal responsibility perhaps.

No you are not being reasonable - playing football, cycling and skiing etc are all healthy lifestyle choices. Sure, there’s a risk of injury, but people who use a car are at risk of serious injury, and indeed any form of transport, including walking, has risk. No way can you say it’s irresponsible to cycle and care about being fit than to choose to drive, which when combined with other sedentary activities, can be detrimental to health

I used to work in a medical assessment unit where many of our patients were frail and fell due to osteoporosis (so high risk of fractures) or lost muscle mass (osteopenia etc) due to lack of weight baring exercises and movement.

Across the corridor was the Minor Injuries often full of sports and activity related breaks etc.
What exactly do you want people to do OP?