Comments on: MAHD Response to “Dr. Steve”

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:56:04 +0000

and CT helps, but does it completely replace clinical judgment?

Natasha Richardson unfortunately refused transportation to hospital and air ambulance to Montreal’s Neurological Institute at McGill University was available – a fact that was often omitted in news reports.

There are gross distortions of Canada and UK health systems conveyed in the US media. Take it from someone who has practiced in Canada and experienced the UK system AND today has satisfied relatives in both countries.

By: Gerard Freisinger

Gerard Freisinger — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:39:46 +0000

Agree that there are distortions. A paper written in HEALTH AFFAIRS by Katz et al called PHANTOMS IN THE SNOW tabulated the percent of Canadians that were treated in border US health facilities in Washington State, Michigan and NY compared to Canadian facilities. This was a very small percent. And included the magnet hospitals in those areas.

By: Dan C

Dan C — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:25:49 +0000

We are inundated with the “government can’t do anything right” meme. Why does this persist so deeply? Is it because the moneyed factions work so hard to prevent the government from doing its job correctly? Most of the problems I’ve dealt with in the military and civilian life come from people spending their time changing systems around and not … See Morehaving proper training on simple things. If you don’t believe in government, don’t use the services: park your car, homeschool your kids, and don’t buy any regulated products. On the farm, everything I want to do is illegal, and the farmers blame the liberals, but the real culprits are the corporations that process foods and have captive markets created by regulations that THEY write for the government. Health care seems the same to me. Most things people need (better nutrition, access to diagnosis, access to medicine) are controlled not for safety reasons, but to prevent living without the companies that produce those things as some kind of guild of thieves.

By: Reid Finlayson

Reid Finlayson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:55:15 +0000

and CT helps, but does it completely replace clinical judgment?

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MAHD Response to “Dr. Steve” – Mad As Hell Doctors PC just to Me — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:49:31 +0000

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By: Patrick McLaughlin

Patrick McLaughlin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:36:45 +0000

Steve bemoans the incredibly limited resources of single payer health care in British Columbia…. Kelowna has a population of 106,000. It *has* a CT scanner in its hospital. Granted, it was broken (“not working”) when his friend’s son needed it (things break down, it happens. I heard of the CT scanner being down in the hospital I was volunteering in for the latter half of last year). But I live in a community of 90,000–in the USA–and there’s not a CT scanner in my community at all. Not even our own hospital. We share one with two other cities–an area with a population of close to half a million, counting the unincorporated areas. I’d be willing to bet that it has a CT scanner. I doubt it has two. And I’d be willing to bet that it sometimes breaks down, too.

Someone needs to tell him that anecdote is not the same as data.

Our system is “good”–but only if you PRETEND that all those who have no coverage, at all, don’t even exist. Taking them into account, it sucks, on top of being hideously expensive.