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Re: Was Bilateral dermoids Now EL's view of US health care system From: Dr Eberhard Lisse (el@lisse.NA) Sun Mar 11 02:54:51 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Melissa: "Re: US health care system" Previous message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Bilateral dermoids" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Was Bilateral dermoids Now EL's view of US health care system" Next in thread: Melissa: "Re: US health care system" Reply: Melissa: "Re: US health care system" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Was Bilateral dermoids Now EL's view of US health care system" Dan, on 3/10/07 8:53 PM R. Daniel Braun said the following: >>Infant mortality, maternal mortality, teenage pregnancies are neither on >>the top in absolute figures, nor in relative figures, taking expenditure >>into account. Access to health care? Disposable income by Ob&Gyns? > Infant Mortality: Great measure of how well parents can take care of an > infant once it goes home. Not worth a hoot at measuring quality of > Medical care. BTW, when measured on a bitrht weight to birth weight > basis, the US perinatal mortality is quite a bit better than anyone > else's. The overall problem is the incidence of preterm delivery. This > seems to be a socio-religious problem, since it seems to arise from > teenage and otherwise unwanted prgnancies. If I applied myself hard enough I could probably find a statistical figure where Namibia shines. However, I stand by my statement. In particular since I haven't found nowhere that only the affluent and educated are allowed to have children. Never mind that I seem to have mentioned teenage pregnancies :-)-O > Maternal Mortality: I didn't know that 8/100,000 pregnancies was so > bad. especially when all deaths of pregnant women and women who have > been pregnant in the last year are included in that number. > Teen age pregnancies are a social religious problem and have little if > anything to do with medical care. I didn't say it was so bad, *HE* said the US health (and implied the OB) system was the best in the world. And that just ain't so. We have been over the figures, before. 8/100000 is shocking, in fact. > Taking expenditure into account: you got me there. The amount of waste > in our system is way up there. e.g.: Pre-eclamptic labs ( alll you need > to R/O HELLP syndrome is a platelet count and you are going to get one > anyway so that anesthesia will consent to putting in an epidural What do > most folks get? Complete liver panel that's what.) Waste Waste There you go > Access to Health Care: If you don't care about going bankrupt, you can > get health care. Actually that's true but irrelevant. > Disposable income by OB-GYN's: I don't know about anyone else, but I am > comfortable and happy. Far from being rich, but comfortable. Yes, sure, but why did you wrote the other day you left to become a CMT? :-)-O greetings, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA el108-ARIN / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Please do NOT email to this address Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ if it is DNS related in ANY way Next message: Melissa: "Re: US health care system" Previous message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Bilateral dermoids" In reply to: R. Daniel Braun: "Was Bilateral dermoids Now EL's view of US health care system" Next in thread: Melissa: "Re: US health care system" Reply: Melissa: "Re: US health care system" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Was Bilateral dermoids Now EL's view of US health care system"

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