November 20, 2003
Socialized Healthcare - Ain't It A Gas?
Imagine you are prepped for a surgery, lying there on the table, half naked. You're life is on the line. Your doctor comes in, says a little something to calm you down as bedside manner dictates. He turns around, walks over and washes his hands and just then realizes, there's no rubber gloves. Looks around some more and sees theres no sterilized instruments.
So your doctor loses it becuase this isnt the first time this has happened and how the hell is he supposed to take care of his patient without any of the proper instruments?
This is the case of one doctor working in the lauded medical system of the island of Cuba.
What do you think happened to him?
HAVANA, November 18 (www.cubanet.org) - Hospital administrators fired a doctor and suspended his medical license for nine months after he loudly expressed his frustration with widespread inefficiency in Fidel Castro's government.
Mario Ariosta, a gynecologist, rushed into an operating room at National hospital in Havana to perform an emergency Cesarean section and found there were no gloves or sterilized instruments available. In his frustration, Ariosta loudly excoriated the government's inefficiency.
Ariosta is off the job, but he has appealed the suspension of his medical license to a labor court.
Posted by Val Prieto at November 20, 2003 08:57 AM
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