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What can Italy teach the rest of the world about health? [ March 2019; by an liberal doctor advocate]
The Local ^ | March 2019 | Susan Levenstein

Posted on 03/16/2020 12:37:09 PM PDT by daniel1212

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To: daniel1212

THIS makes perfect sense! Good post.


21 posted on 03/16/2020 1:17:36 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: SamAdams76
But here’s the rub: Italians are much healthier than Americans

Probably because they have to be!

True as in Cuba, and people in more rural places tend to get more exercise.

22 posted on 03/16/2020 1:19:49 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Absolutely nothing. They botched the diagnosis of JPII (who a few years after being shot had cancer), almost killed him with the surgery, and it had to be redone in a couple of years. And he was an important person ... the rest of the Italians get even worse.

The same is true of the Spanish health system, where everybody is pleading to go to a private facility. I’ve spent a lot of time in Spain and I know that from experience.

Is it any wonder that these two countries have the highest rates?

(Also, I have read that Italy, which was also having a regular seasonal flu outbreak going on, is misdiagnosing a lot of cases and just calling them Cornavirus.)


23 posted on 03/16/2020 1:29:18 PM PDT by livius
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To: daniel1212
It's always the same solution for LIEberals:

"YOU have too much money and freedom. The Government [WE] must take some of it to fix things, and you're selfish if you insist on keeping what belongs to you."
24 posted on 03/16/2020 1:37:00 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Simon Foxx
UPDATE: Our intrepid “Doctoressa” is now hiding in “The Bay Area” while still gently sniping at the US health care system and even at Dr Faucci; Here’s her blog entry from yesterday

Read it: ; sounds like another America-deploring liberal elite savior. Yet, further site-searching on "America" finds her also stating this reveling insight from 2018:

Americans who knew something about Italy used to nod knowingly when I’d tell them the National Health Service was going from bad to worse,

Mario Monti.. installed to take over from Berlusconi as Prime Minister, who proceeded to force austerity with a vengeance on Italian regions in deficit, which meant most of them. Poof! there went the hospital beds, and the staffing, leaving patients amassed on gurneys in emergency room halls. Mario did more damage to ordinary Italians’ health care in one year than Silvio had in seventeen.

The right-wing League and the no-wing Five-Star Movement, the two parties currently – and improbably – sharing power, have made rosy joint promises to restore funding for the public medical sector, fight corruption, and improve services. Plus promising their constituents everything from earlier retirement to a guaranteed minimum income.

But it’s all pie in the sky, based on a magic trick....When they cobbled together a government, each party stuck to its own promises, despite the glaring contradiction between taking in less and spending more. - http://www.stethoscopeonrome.com/2018/12/warning-politics-may-be-bad-for-your.html

25 posted on 03/16/2020 1:48:33 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

My Dad was a 21 year old private in the Army before the Spanish flu hit. He was serious injured in a training accident and had his upper back broken.

He ended up in the big Army hospital in Kansas. It turned out to be the one that was a major breeding ground for the Spanish Flu.

His older brother and his wife drove up to visit my Dad. Then they went home. A couple of days later, his brother got sick from the flu and died in about one day. He had never been sick in his life.

My Dad survived the flu and was later discharged. He felt that the nurses/medics saved his life by putting his bed and him outside in the sun. Most of those, who stayed inside the big hospital tents, died from the flu.

As I have posted before: Daily, get out in the sun and walk if you can for 30 minutes a day. That is Nature’s way of increasing your vitamin D levels and Dopamine levels.

The higher Dopamine levels will help you to feel better.

https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065 Coronavirus and the Sun:

A lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic . Put simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff.

`Open-Air’ Treatment in 1918 During the great pandemic, two of the worst places to be were military barracks and troop-ships. Overcrowding and bad ventilation put soldiers and sailors at high risk of catching influenza and the other infections that often followed it.[2,3] As with the current Covid-19 outbreak, most of the victims of so-called `Spanish flu’ did not die from influenza: they died of pneumonia and other complications.


26 posted on 03/16/2020 2:12:05 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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To: Bob434

This is the Bernie Sander’s health care he wants for America.


27 posted on 03/16/2020 2:16:15 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: ifinnegan
Milan is one of Italy's top demographic hubs for Chinese: there are officially about 20,000 Chinese in Milan, NOT COUNTING those who have come illegally, and China-born people who are now Italian citizens.

IOW, 20,000 known Chinese people with legal Chinese citizenship, in Milan. They are centered in the textile/clothing/fashion industry. There is a LOT of travel and commerce back and forth between Milan and China, as well as a lot of circulation amongst Chinese communities in Italy ----large numbers in Rome, and Prato (in Tuscany) as well as somewhat smaller numbers in Turin and Florence.

How this related to the Coronavius epidemic is yet to be explored.

28 posted on 03/16/2020 2:17:44 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Truth is stronger than faction.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Milan is one of Italy’s top demographic hubs for Chinese: there are officially about 20,000 Chinese in Milan, NOT COUNTING those who have come illegally, and China-born people who are now Italian citizens.

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Yes and I think the official number is even higher than 20K. I think it’s 60K not including illegals.


29 posted on 03/16/2020 2:35:15 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Grampa Dave

And that article was posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3824896/posts?page=8


30 posted on 03/16/2020 2:42:55 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: miss marmelstein
This is a year old. I wonder what she thinks today.

She attacks Trum. But also see post 25

31 posted on 03/16/2020 2:53:00 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Pretty much the same situation with my friend. He was self-conscious about his credentials, so after a few years of general family practice, he shut down his practice and was accepted into a graduate program at a prestigious medical school here in the US and turned out to be an exceptional specialist in his field.


32 posted on 03/16/2020 2:53:15 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: Old Yeller
I told a lady at the food section of wal-mart today, that empty shelves are normal under socialism. Told her this is what Bernie and his morons want.

What they want is nothing on the political shelf but their power acquiring programs./

33 posted on 03/16/2020 2:54:23 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Maybe this woman should realize that Italy is ungovernable including their healthcare system. Mussolini had to kill a lot of them and then partner with hitler to get them to behave. I refuse to accept our healthcare is worse than theirs despite the Mediterranean diet.


34 posted on 03/16/2020 3:24:22 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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To: Bob434

” And Americans like to say their medical care is the best in the world...”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I broke my collar bone ( clavicle ) 5 weeks ago. It was badly shattered. A week after surgery, I received a thank you note from the all the nurses and staff who assisted me.

I bet they don’t do that in Italy.


35 posted on 03/16/2020 3:44:08 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: daniel1212

“infant mortality”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Plenty of room for manipulating stats on that one. In the U.S. we try to save the tiniest of premature babies.


36 posted on 03/16/2020 3:46:11 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Kozy
This is the Bernie Sander’s health care he wants for America.

Ah yes, Comrade Sanders.

37 posted on 03/16/2020 3:55:33 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: Kozy

SOCILAIZED MEDICINE DONT WORK


38 posted on 03/16/2020 3:56:44 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: wintertime
Plenty of room for manipulating stats on that one. In the U.S. we try to save the tiniest of premature babies

Although many claim a right to dispose of such like they were a mere growth of flesh as long as they are yet inside the womb.

39 posted on 03/16/2020 6:13:32 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

I decided to try to find out what this progressive paragon of medical practice was doing today. Was she in Italy trying to save her patients? Had she already died heroically doing just that, and I was being unfair to her?

Nope. Skedaddled out of Italy the first week of March to go to conferences in the US. And now, oh golly, she is stuck in the US and can’t get back to Italy, where the health care is so much better than here:

http://www.stethoscopeonrome.com/2020/03/notes-from-coronavirus-refugee.html


40 posted on 03/17/2020 3:39:16 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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