New York Independent Financial Advisor

■"In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false."--former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, New York Times, Aug. 17
■"It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever flawed gene or missing protein might be the cause of my daughter's troubled life, with her terrible seizures, her blindness, her inability to walk or talk or eat unaided. Over the past 15 years, there have been many such attempts to identify her condition. One year later, we asked the doctor, a top geneticist at one of the world's most famous hospitals, what had happened to the results. His office told us a rambling story about financial restrictions and the need to send such tests to a laboratory in Germany. They said there was little he could do but promised to pursue our case. It was a bare-faced lie. The precious vial of blood had been dumped in storage and forgotten. The following day it was despatched to a laboratory in Wales and 40 days later the specialists came up trumps. They identified her condition, an obscure genetic mutation called CDKL5. . . . The most shocking thing was not the lying. Nor even the incompetence. It was our total lack of surprise at the turn of events, since after 15 years suffering from the failings of the National Health Service we are prepared for almost any ineptitude."--Ian Birrell, Independent (London), Aug. 21

Have you ever read the book "dead doctors dont lie", read it and think about the American health system which is far worse, it is just run by private companies that have great lawyers and people cant redress greivances against it because of money. Thousands of people die in our hospitals and by misdiagnosis every year in the United States. We are almost the worst of 30 industrialized nations, behind TURKEY. So, we should think about our problems, not an isolated incident which we can all pull up about healthcare somewhere in the world.

2009-08-21 21:41:46 by Poke_the_Bear

Bradford Pine is a Wealth Advisor in New York City providing personalized financial planning and wealth management services for affluent ...