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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (943)6/8/2005 3:56:23 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 42652
 
Laz, The tragic scenario you describe is played out just as often in non-Kaiser facilities.

webmm.ahrq.gov

That said, diabetes can be a tricky and insidious disease. I can cite you many cases of nonhealing wounds and raging infections in diabetics for which there is no hard and fast treatment, and all the expensive drugs from all the king's horses and all the king's men won't do squat to help the patient recover.

Pssst! Wanna talk about Xigris? - Holly

<edit> Oops! For some reason, the above links don't work. I'll get busy and find some that do and repost.

<edit 2> I reposted the link to the homepage only. From there, one may click on the various links. The site is well worth reading.