Socialized Medicine and its inevitable result. In Canada, woman offered “Medical Assistance in Dying” in lieu of the surgery she needs.

One of the major characteristics of a socialized medicine system, where ALL of medical care is paid for by Government (in the US, Obama called it "Single Payer"), there is never enough care or money to go around. If something is "free" (no charge) people will always use more of it, sometimes unnecessarily. In Canada, …

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On Cystic Fibrosis…and Medical Miracles

I first became aware of Cystic Fibrosis as a pharmacy technician at a children's hospital, in the 1980s. One of my tech duties was to deliver medication cassettes (each patient had a drawer with their meds for half the day) to each of the units in the hospital. I would hear the CF patients cough, …

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…Only Tradeoffs…Healthcare workers spread death..Updated to add link to article

Yes, that's exactly what has happened here in the "Hot Zone" of the Seattle area.  The epicenter of the novel coronavirus epidemic in the US is a long-term-care facility in Kirkland, Washington, with the ironic-seeming name of Life Care Center of Kirkland.  It is thought that a patient had a family visitor early this year …

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