Health and Healthcare

Various looks at Healthcare across different countries and Individual experiences

INTRODUCTION

“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system." Walter Cronkite

This series of articles look at several aspects of healthcare across different countries and my own individual experiences of being on the receiving end of healthcare.

The articles looking at aspects of healthcare uses publicly available information to show what is happening. They then try to explain how things occurred and why the results are the way they are. This analysis is my own review of how this occurred, and tries to logically understand the figures.

The individual experiences of treatment are my own backed up by publicly available information.

Anyone wishing to comment can do so via the Contact page and I will add to the website all those that are printable.

Healthcare costs and life expectancy by country

"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world." Bill Frist

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Childbirth costs by country and Maternal Mortality

“Midwives see birth as a miracle and only mess with it if there’s a problem; doctors see birth as a problem and if they don’t mess with it, it’s a miracle!” – Barbara Harper in Gentle Birth Choices

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Surviving Open Heart Surgery

“The problem with heart disease is that the first symptom is often fatal.” — Michael Phelps

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