Nov 16 2008
From the “IT COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE” Department
Let’s face it. American health care has a long way to go toward improving its quality and its availability. But things could be worse. According to today’s BBC NEWS, Sicilian physicians have been billing their state medical program for the treatment of dead patients. Some of the individuals had been dead for 20 years.
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Nov 16 2008
What a Long, Strange Trip Americans Are Taking
Some things are worth travelling for: the soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in New York’s Chinatown, for example. But according to Choe Sang-Hun in today’s NY Times, many Americans are joining the ranks of medical tourists, and heading to South Korea for that expensive surgery they’ve been putting off. And now, they can combine their [...]