[Arioch7]

Well done. You will learn a lot from that link. When you read the fourth post down, you might understand why we are so hostile to Socialists and by extension Leftists.

Oh and just curious, have you e-mailed Doctors etc. in the New England Area? They might be able to understand your situation better then non-professionals such as myself.

[liberallarry]

I'm skimming the political stuff - although, of course, it's interesting in it's own right. My motivation is to find cheaper solutions to medical problems. There's an article - Alternative Medicine in Cuba (I thought it was the 4th down but probably not) - which gives you a good idea of what I'm looking for.

To be honest, my instinct is to label alternative medicine as a load of crap. But "beggars can't be choosers" so I'm pursuing it. And that's only the 4th or 5th down on a long, long list.

No, I haven't e-mailed doctors in the New England area because I don't know where to start. If you can give me one or two names that will probably be enough. You know how that goes; one thing leads to another.

Thanks very, very much for your encouragement. You have no idea how good it feel to know that at least one other person thinks I'm not wasting my time.

[liberallarry]

Health Care in Cuba

Here's a reference to the maternal health care houses my doctor friends were describing. Just going through the article now.

It's tough, this research. And I'm no doctor. It would be nice to find someone who already had mastered this info.

[liberallarry]

Cuba visit inspires complementary therapies research for Nottingham academic

Another reference to alternative therapies. What makes this research so hard is so much of it is politics and so little medicine. Alternative medicine has been around a long time - especially in the U.S. What makes Cuba so interesting is that necessity has forced them to explore this avenue to a far greater degree than is done in the U.S. That's interesting from a medical point of view. Yet all the articles are focused on the political aspects.

Still, I have the names of the authors and the medical groups involved.