Failing health.Those who scorn socialized medicine socialized medicine, publicly administered system of national health care. The term is used to describe programs that range from government operation of medical facilities to national health-insurance plans. might ponder Ponder - A non-strict polymorphic, functional language by Jon Fairbairn <jf@cl.cam.ac.uk>. Ponder's type system is unusual. It is more powerful than the Hindley-Milner type system used by ML and Miranda and extended by Haskell. two recent findings from a study by the Commonwealth Fund of 6,957 recently hospitalized patients from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Britain and five other countries with state-run health care. Thirty-four percent of Americans were victims of medical errors, but only 22 percent of Britons. Half of the Americans reported going without medical treatment because of its cost, but only 13 percent of Britons. The United States came out worst of all the countries in these two categories. Another category in which the United States led was in the number of patients reporting problems with coordination of their care. In the ease of my seriously ill A patient is seriously ill when his or her illness is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent danger to life. See also very seriously ill. friends, this has been the most maddening problem of all: Physicians who don't bother to talk to each other even though they're treating the same patient. |
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