Comments on: Did Cuba botch Castro’s surgery?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:19:00 +0000

this BLOG is full of
doctor(s)fearing “socialize” medicine because they are afraid it is going to hurt their deep pockets!!! That’s it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:06:00 +0000

Of course we need the coastguard on patrol in Florida to prevent Americans swimming to Cuba to get better health care.
In Fidel’s medical utopia , why does he need to IMPORT a surgeon.
Is there not one friggin surgeon in the whole country who can do a bowel resection?
PS criminallopath needs a job badly

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:34:00 +0000

Not sure about Cuba, but the doctors who worked in Kremlin clinic – the one for communist VIPs – weren’t the best. They were often selected based on criteria like ethnic origin, party membership, loyalty, etc.

Could be the same in Cuba.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:45:00 +0000

Unlikely to be cancer, but doesn’t change the outcome. Whether they did an LAR or sigmoid colectomy for colon cancer or diverticulitis the surgeon needed to make a decision whether or not to restore bowel continuity. He opted for the least conservative path by restoring continuity and not creating a colostomy. Obviously he made the wrong decision. Alternatively, maybe they ran out of suture and/or staples down there and anastomosed the bowel with super glue. Who knows?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:32:00 +0000

Unless he had something different like cancer and they didn’t tell us about it.

Also, in some countries they don’t tell people if they have cancer. I know someone from one such country. When her mother who lived there had cancer (don’t know the detail, but it was somewhere in the intestine above colon) they told the woman she had diverticulitis. How would anybody know it wasn’t the case with Castro?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:53:00 +0000

Ok. He may be the bottom of the barrel in the USA but still probably could run circles around the best that Cuba produces as exemplified by the Fudel disaster.

By: Criminallopath

Criminallopath — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:30:00 +0000

As a counterpoint, we have the barebacking neurosurgeon from Florida with his wonderful exhibition of competence.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:21:00 +0000

Just another example of the incompetence of a single payer healthcare utopia that the left so jealously cherish. Even after the botched surgeries by the very best Cuban surgeons, Fidel’s hatred of the USA (by not hiring a US surgeon-that is if one would have agreed to help and in fact been allowed to help by the State Department) will end in his own demise.