On 27Aug2022 0827, Evyn MacDude - evyn.macdude at gmail.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 8:47 PM kaladorn at gmail.com (via tml list) <
> xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

>> When you don't feel well and need to be seen - a few days at most. If you
>> have a possible cancer, again a few days at most. And treatment will begin
>> very shortly thereafter. They resource health and doctors enough to have
>> capacity that North America can't even conceive of. And their standard of
>> medicine is excellent.
>>
> Yeah, I wouldn't make that generalization. Those tend to be hallmarks of a
> healthy single payer system. And as for Cancer, personally I can
> attest that a family member had to come to the states to get her cancer
> treated, Japanese doctors tend to be far more Autocratic with their
> patients than western ones.
When my sister was working in Japan, which she did for three years,
she'd 'save up' health problems and get them seen to when she was back
here on holiday because she didn't trust the Japanese doctors or health
system. Most of the other westerners she knew did the same thing unless
it was something that couldn't wait.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>