Re: El whats' maternal mortatilty in your neck of the woods.
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Sep 10 08:17:33 2007
Zach
OTOH EL's stance would guarantee a tenured professorship at most US
Universities.
Art
At Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Zachariah Newton wrote:
>
>"In my opinion US society is still racist to the core, never mind how it
>takes care of the sick, the poor and the old. Or rather doesn't."
>
>Jackson Pollock found fame and fortune by painting with a broad brush.
>Perhaps you will also.
>
>There was a well known ad/commercial many years ago that had the tag line:
>"You've come a long way, baby." I think it was a cigarette company with a
>product developed for women.
>
>El, baby, we have come a long way in the past 50 years and it shows. You
>sound like a rabid professor at a left wing university/college. Us suffering
>WASPs are losing our grip. I feel my pain.
>
>zbn
>
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>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dr Eberhard Lisse" <el@lisse.NA>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 8:13 PM
>Subject: Re: El whats' maternal mortatilty in your neck of the woods.
>
>> John,
>>
>> We have no figures about the Maternal Mortality in Namibia. The UN
>> applies a model that suggests 190 in 100000, however we have about
>> 100000 deliveries in the country per annum and if we had that many, ie
>> more than 3 a week a week, we would have heard about it.
>>
>> In the big State Hospitals its something like 3-6 a year.
>>
>> In Private Practice (O&G and GP) I would guesstimate about 1 maternal
>> death per year countrywide, which will be something like 10 (5-20) per
>> 100000.
>>
>> O&G alone, I have no clue whatsoever, we are only 6 out of 10 doing
>> Obstetrics, and I can not recall a maternal death in the last 5 years.
>>
>> Now that you are asking, what's the rate for your native Canadian
>> population then? I am sure the figure for North of 40 is something
>> you can be really proud of.
>>
>> To compare US figures with developing countries is obscene, by the
>> way, since the annual budget of one or two hospitals in the US
>> together is higher than the national budget in Namibia (which is 600
>> Million USD, of which 20% goes to healthcare).
>>
>> And it's not the issue how many, but rather that there are too many.
>>
>> In my opinion US society is still racist to the core, never mind how it
>> takes care of the sick, the poor and the old. Or rather doesn't.
>>
>> greetings, el
>>
>> on 9/8/07 9:55 PM Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C. said
>> the following:
>>
>>> El there has been a discussion on how poorly Black women fair Vs.
>>> white in the U.S. . Poorly is probably a bad choice of words,
>>> 37/100000 is probably the best for any large black population in the
>>> world.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Take care, John
>>
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art fougner, md
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