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To: JakeStraw who wrote (409622)5/27/2003 3:21:11 PM
From: Land Shark  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 769670
 
re: Canadian Professionals
Healthcare is apout the patients, not the doctors. Some do go to the US and most that do return later.

Why do Americans pay over 18% of their GDP for Healthcare?
Why is your system bloated and expensive?
Why are health costs spiraling out of control in the US?
Why are your HMOs so crappy?



To: JakeStraw who wrote (409622)5/27/2003 3:51:47 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Beware of the ER!

"In Taiwan, the newest SARS hot spot appears to have begun in the emergency room of the country's premier hospital, National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, where patients flock for treatment. "They have people waiting in the emergency room for days at a time," says John Jernigan, who is head of the CDC's clinical care team"