There has been a lot in the press about faulty breast implants from France and the danger they pose to women if the implant leaks or otherwise.
Though I see the danger I do not see why these women who found the money for the implant for their vanity (or to please their man) now want them removed FREE by the NHS. Sorry you paid for them privately, now either they should pay for the removal or the hospital that implanted them should remove them for free as they are faulty goods.
A removal paid for by the NHS will divert funds away from real sick people who are ill through no fault of their own. Te expect the NHS to remove them is wrong.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Yes we are all responsible for the consequences of our actions, particularly those driven by vanity.
No reason for the NHS (aka taxpayer) to pick up the tab on this one.
BTW Happy new year everyone.
just testing
I agree with you, RR. In France the government has agreed to fund all operations to remove these implants, perhaps because it feels guilty that it did not check what Mas was doing, despite warnings from the US authorities. (Typically French attitude, that the Anglo-saxons are either trying to ruin a French business or else don’t know what they’re talking about.) But all those patients in Britain who paid for breast enhancement operations out of vanity, should now be getting their cheque books out if they want the silicon bags removed. This idea that the NHS will repair the damage caused by any cosmetic surgery done privately must be squashed once and for all. Any woman who had these protheses inserted after a mastectomy is obviously a different matter.
Apropos nothing to do with this this post and with apologies to rick.
Last year I went sailing in the Clyde with an old friend who had had both a knee and a hip replacement. I noticed how difficult it was for him to climb in and out of the inflatable as we made ‘rest stops’ at various hostelries on Bute and in the Kyles of’.
What he needs I thought, is a pilots ladder. OK many modern yachts are equipped with fancy ladders off the transom (as this one was), but any seaman knows that that the safest way of boarding a vessel is from alongside, boarding over the stern is not recommended in anything worse than a flat calm.
So I though I’ll make ‘R’ a small pilot ladder. Easier said than done, but got some hardwood decking from B&Q some 18mm hemp from the remainders bin at a chandlers and got to work borrowing tools from my brothers’ in law, downside of which was all the free advice. Anyway the ladder was a great success. When o got home I bought some Iroko and more rope and twine and made a more thorough job which you can see here if this isn’t moderated out.
I mean here
http://jazz606.com/2011/12/01/109/
Sheona I agree if the op was done by the NHS for health reasons then they are obliged to reverse the op.
The private clinics made loads of money putting the things in and should now be forced to remove them.
Can’t disagree. I know that implants are done for health reasons, and in that case the NHS should pay. But the private clinics should be doing any removals free of charge.
It seems to me if the implants were for medical reasons, then the costs should be met by whoever performed the initial operation, NHS or private. If, however, the implants were the result of a vanity operation, then the implantee should be responsible, possible pursuing the manufacture for the final bill.
Anyway, plastic tits don’t feel quite right, if you know what I mean!
Hello Jazz. Happy New Year to you too.
I cannot think of one reason why the NHS should pay for the removal of these implants, which were after all, for the most part, a result of elective private surgery. Not all of them were done in the UK anyway!
One of the things which I didn’t realise was that they only last for about ten years anyway, and they have to be replaced. I’m amazed than any woman would choose to do this for purely cosmetic reasons, but I feel the same about face-lifts and any of these so called “improvements”.
After seeing this I have given up on the idea of a penis extension 🙂
It really gets on yer tits then? 🙂
Very funny Rick, but just imagine if you had been interested in your twenties. How many operations before it fell off?
Doesn’t bear thinking about. 😉
Oh dear oh dear oh dear!
Too early for this, curdling the morning tea!
Agree with all of you.
How in God’s name can people voluntarily do it to themselves? I think they are another species.
From one of my favourite chaps, earlier today, on the other side:
“I have tried extending my penis but most people prefer a handshake.”
Bilby Briliant.
🙂