From the First Call to the Operating Table: ; the U.S. System Got the Job Done in Only Five Hours

Summary


A few weeks ago, I had what seemed to me to be a small medical problem, so I phoned my primary physician. However, after we discussed the problem, he directed me to a specialist.

After the specialist examined me, he directed me to a different specialist elsewhere. When I was examined and tested in the second specialist's office, he immediately phoned a hospital, asking to have an operating room available in an hour.

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From the First Call to the Operating Table: ; the U.S. System Got the Job Done in Only Five Hours

No more than five hours elapsed between my seeing the first specialist and the time when I was on an operating table.

This was quite a contrast with what happens in countries with government-...

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