All I'm saying is that it seems unfair to discount all of the good work the NHS does do and lambast them over one flukey mistake. When you consider the number of patients they treat successfully, this isn't really that bad.

Unfortunately, where the NHS is concerned the papers only seem to see the bad side. This is understandable-after all, an operation being performed successfully isn't very interesting-but it does result in a somewhat one sided view of the health service's effectiveness.