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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it really good anywhere?

Last week there were big complaints in the UK about the NHS computer system that led to unfavorable health outcomes and deaths.

My friend couldn't find a PCP in Toronto for months.

Other countries are losing doctors to higher paying countries  and don't produce enough specialists. People wait years for joint surgery, or months for oncology appointments.

How much of this is because medical science can do more so demand is higher for an increased number of treatments.[/quote]

I don’t buy about medical science doing more because life expectancy is not impressive in the USA.
If I have to guess Scandinavian countries might be doing better.[/quote]

Of course they’re doing more. In 1986, there were 9,000 kidney transplants in the US. In 2022, there were over 22,000.[/quote]

All that proves is there were more kidney transplants, which could be an indicator there's more kidney disease. Without context, that means nothing.[/quote]

You’re being deliberately obtuse. I guess there were no kidney transplants in 1940 because there was no kidney disease. [/quote]

DP. I agree that PP is being deliberately obtuse.

The first seminars in immunology were first taught in medical schools at Boston in the late 10980s. The first medical school genetics classes were in the 1990s, with a core medical school curriculum established only in 2001.

There are hundreds of diagnoses that couldn't even be made just a few decades ago, much less treated. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. [/quote]

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