Point is, it shows how truly messed up our medical system is. Obama promised to fundamentally change America. HE said “why should America always be first?” and then he extols third world ___holes like Cuba. So.. we are headed to Cuba’s bare-foot medicine doctors? When Fidel needed surgery…. they had to bring in experts from outside of the country. When Canadians (with free health care) need surgery but the waiting list is 10 months, they come to — the USA. Why do you think the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic are so famous and big.. Nobody talks about the percentage of patients that are Canadian and come to pay out of pocket. Huge. I am not besmirching either clinic. it just — is.
Obama’s dream is coming true. I cannot say the woke reason why, but the doctors coming out of medical school today are not the same as 20 or 40 years ago. Be very nervous when you are in the emergency room and the young doctors is hovering over you on the stretcher, sweating… “What the hell do I do now?” he/she is thinking. So they go to the computer and find the government or hospital approved “protocol” and follow that. It has to be right because the government approved it. The government makes no mistakes? right?
Bottom line is you really need a doctor you CAN trust-even if he or she is miles away and you can call and ask… “They want to give this medicine, or do this surgery.” For me, I get calls like that all the time… What I endeavor to do is refer to a specific SURGEON— not a hospital or a hospital system. The billboards on the highways brag about hospitals being 5 star etc.. That is bought and paid for advertisement and has nothing to do with the real statistics. My specific SURGEON is one person who can excel in a particular operation, You need to get that granular in your questions to your doctor….
I hesitate— but I must tell a story. Once, in the past I went to my “general practice doctor” all was well. But I asked him if I needed a heart surgery operation, are the guys here good at it and he said “SURE”.. Then I asked “are they board certified?” He said, well I am sure they are.. so then I asked. “Name one of them” —- He Could Not. Actually I had checked… not a single board certified cardiovascular surgeon in the “well known” huge hospital system. That is why you should be very cautious.
But- back to the COVID question.. Kirsch has a great idea. It won’t happen I am afraid.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.