Well, because Castro said so. Cuba is a country where individuals have a right to health care, and some doctors make less than $40 a month. (via MedSkool)
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I wasn’t going to post this, because there will be those that say I am bigoted. However, I question the quality of training of these Cuban physicians. I have worked with some Cuban surgeons and their technique and judgement are not up to American standards. We, Americans, do indeed have the best quality of medicine in the world, because we have well trained physicians.
Funny how El Lider Supremo imported a Spaniard top take care of him, given the plethora of presumably highly skilled Cuban physicians and surgeons.
Sorry, I highly doubt you Americans are better trained than any other physician in the rich developed nations of the world. You can say that you’re better than Cubans (and although highly plausible, you need more than your personal experience to back it up), but it’s unfounded arrogance to say you’re better than the whole world.
What is worse than unfounded arrogance? Utter ignorance.
Exactly, I could have included both of those in my previous post.
“…best quality of medicine in the world, because we have well trained physicians.”
Like the barebacking Florida neurosurgeon? Like the leave the patient open on the slab to cash a paycheck orthopod? Like the Washington State “getting high on my own supply” anesthesiologist? Give me a break.
You can’t name a doctor from a newstory and then judge a whole group by that… what is truly telling is that the person who can anything he wants in Cuba does not want a SINGLE doctor in his whole wretched country. He has to hire the work out to an outsider! That is pathetic. If Bill Gates got sick do you think he would have to fly a surgeon in from Spain to America?
no…and that’s why it is highly likely that the US has better doctors than Cuba. However, it is highly unlikely that the US has better doctors than other rich, developed nations like Australia, Canada, Western European nations, etc.
A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a (Spanish) horse!
I do not know if US doctors are trained better, but I would contend that they have better tools at their disposal making them better doctors. I would not give up my spot in the US healthcare system for anywhere in the world. I find it amazing how fast our pathology labs, radiology, surgery schedules, etc. run. The only thing that it is hard to get a timely appointment for in my opinion is dermatology, but that is another story. We have a higher level of healthcare for those who have healthcare, whereas in socialist countries you have to average it out to cover those who otherwise wouldn’t be covered. Our healthcare system is incredible for about 86 -90 percent of people, and then isn’t so hot for the rest. Whereas, socialist healthcare is average for 100 percent of the people. I don’t think the training is really that different, but then again how are you supposed to train for PET scans if you don’t have PET machine. Just my .02
“Our healthcare system is incredible for about 86 -90 percent of people, and then isn’t so hot for the rest. Whereas, socialist healthcare is average for 100 percent of the people.”
Man, what are you smoking? There are pleanty of disparities in socialist systems. There are pleanty of haves who have connections within the party system, the majority schmoes who get the crappy ‘median’ care, and for those who are really wretched, don’t think for a minute that they are really going to get what they need from those who contribute what they can.
Castro had his pick of any physician in his country, and none met his standards. That says all I need to know about the quality of Cuba’s doctors.
Stop your arguing. The best Cuban physicians left long ago for the United States and practice in the United States now. Castro mass produces doctors like Detroit produces cars. He then exports the doctors to his friends in need, such as Hugo Chavez, in return for other goods. How many of you own a car produced in Detroit? Yeah I mean YOU Criminal! Enough said.
“You can’t name a doctor from a newstory and then judge a whole group by that… “
Isn’t that exactly what physicians do about malpractice victims and their lawyers? Is it not good for the gander as well?
John Edwards: channeling CP babies. ‘Nuff said.
Robert Caulkins, 3 DWI convictions and still practicing, shows up drunk at a Boston hospital to operate.
Your biggest complaint about John Edwards is that he helped a family who was facing mountains of medical bills as a result of a physician’s negligence. What do you think the biggest complaint about a chronic drunk operating is?
‘Nuff said.
An acquaintance of mine is a med mal lawyer that regularly shows up to court drunk and on cocaine and still manages to pull in over $2mil per year and only works half the year. Another acquaintance of mine is a divorce lawyer that frequently gets drunk before court and jumps into bed with every female client of his. They are still is practicing.
‘Nuff said…
You don’t want to try to pull the scummy lawyer versus scummy doctor game because I can guarantee you there are a lot of REALLY sh8tty little law schools throughout the entire country. I can’t believe (seriously) how easy it is to get in a law school. They need a better filtering system.
Care to chime in on that last post Criminal?
NO. my biggest complaint about John Edwards is taht he is a prevaricating, snake oil salesman who channels the souls of CP babies to gullible juries.
“nuff said.
“You don’t want to try to pull the scummy lawyer versus scummy doctor game because I can guarantee you there are a lot of REALLY sh8tty little law schools throughout the entire country. I can’t believe (seriously) how easy it is to get in a law school. They need a better filtering system.”
Got rejected, eh? You sound like one of those guys who got hazed out of the fraternity and then spends the rest of your life telling people how you didn’t want to be in there anyway.
He said aquaintance, not friend. Most doctors are aquainted with unscrupulous souls, including a few of their brethren. These are not friends, to the contrary, most would rather see them disbarred, delicensed, or in jail.
And yet they do nothing. Many of you know a colleague you would never let touch you or your family, yet you stand quietly by, knowing they are incompetent.
Not to be defensive, but there is a difference between incompetance and imperfection. The finest of physicians will not always achieve the best possible result. I can assure you that indifference to incompetance it is not; rather it is a lack of empowerment and the power of legal defenses to stymie corrective action. Who will congratulate you for a pyrrhic victory? What are your resources? Are you ready to commit personal time and funds to the battle? And if you do prevail, are you ready to placed under the microscope, awaiting the random statistical variation outcome for which you will hang?
If you are not willing to work to rid your profession of those who are most likely to commit malpractice because you receive no reward for it, then don’t complain when their victims seeks to hold them responsible for the full extent of the damages.
You really could use a hearing aid and a brain descrambler.
“If you are not willing to work to rid your profession of those who are most likely to commit malpractice because you receive no reward for it, then don’t complain when their victims seeks to hold them responsible for the full extent of the dama”
Have you looked at your state’s board of medicine websit. No smartass replies just the truth. Before you know how the system works, don’t judge it.
I have seen it. I’ve also read multiple physician blogs bitching about those same boards of presumably, experts in the field.
I am a medical student studying in the US and I was born in Cuba. I believe that America provides the highest quality health care in the world. I also feel very privileged learning from the very best American physicians and surgeons.
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