Apparently, socialized medicine has so impoverished parts of the British medical community that one hospital is considering treating pets in order to make ends meet:

    Ipswich Hospital is proposing to use its state-of-the-art radiotherapy equipment, which lies dormant at weekends, to treat family pets with cancer in special Saturday morning clinics. . . .

    The measure was criticised [last night] as a symptom of "financial mismanagement" and potentially dangerous to patients.