My husband attended a medical conference in Britain in June. His impression of the conference was that the research presented was all in the area of cost containment and analyzing how well the techs perform the services that a doctor would do here. They rely on the US for true medical advancement.
I have been in foreign hospitals twice.
The first was in Spain a few years ago. I went to the cardiac unit with a group and to my surprise it was an open ward with sort of cots and people lying around. The cardiologist was sitting with a cigarette in his mouth and looking at a monitor of something while smoking in the ward.
The second time was with a child with an ear infection. We went in the examing room and there was a roach crawing around. The doc started to look in her ear and she screamed. He kept trying to force the otoscope down her ear and she was yelling so painful was it. I yanked her up, left and went to a pharmacy and got antibiotics without a Rx and treated her.
I don’t want to be ill in a foreign country.
Absolutely correct! When was the last time a France or UK or Canada for that matter invented anything that was considered a game changer, think PC, iPod, etc
Technological, medical and pharmaceutical advances all require profit to provide capital. Socialist economies do not allow for profit thereby placing the burden on the taxpayers. Ultimately the system collapses under its own weight while the quality of service deteriorates and the country's population are driven to a lower standard of living.
Yes, whatever. If not for America, we’d still be using leeches to treat people, yeah I get it.
Actually, Britain still makes medical breakthroughs. The problem is the NHS system dosent make the best use of them.