It seems that every time I visit my good neighbours to the south, I always get stuck in a healthcare conversation that starts off along these lines
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in 1989, i broke my ankle while i was in the U.K. because i was a full-time student and resident, my health care was free. i had 2 injuries at once - a torn tendon in the joint, and also broken bones - but the technology wasnt really available in the UK to detect both. MRIs were newfangled things back then. they treated the break which they saw in an x-ray, but not the tendon, which needed to be treated in the opposite way as a broken bone. the end result of this is that it didnt heal correctly, the tendon is all weak, and i have an ankle that is, for all intents and purposes, toast. i had to give up pretty much all competitive sports at that point. its pretty much fucked up forever unless i want to endure a gnarly surgical procedure and 6 mos. of rehab. it wasnt malpractice - they did the best they could with the information that was available
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It's likely that with the torn tendon or brain tumor, insurance companies would have tried to find every possible loophole to get out of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. When you have a system that profits on death (and this isn't sensationalistic because that's exactly what it does), and another one that is first and foremost dedicated to health care, the latter will always be better. I know I'd be terrified if I had to wait months to get out something that was growing in my head, but from what I hear I think they've done a decent job of putting everything in some sort of priority line
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Interesting. While you didn't really want a doctor from a medical school of 100 years ago (see The Great Influenza by John M. Barry for a discussion of the development of the modern medical school), I had no idea they were holding down enrolment that much.
But on the other hand:
What do you call the guy who graduated last in his class from Med. School?
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But on the other hand:
What do you call the guy who graduated last in his class from Med. School?
Doctor.
Mike Baker
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