No more salt in BA restaurants
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tomdesigns said:
Tom I think you're confused as to the term Western! I've seen you use it more than once and just to let you know Argentina is in the Western hemisphere.
I have never had any problems with any of the doctors I've had here -- but I don't just randomly pick a name out of the book or look for someone that speaks english. Whenever lookng for a new doctor I look up the college of specialists that I need and see who's sitting on the board etc. I also see if they're publishing or active in the community, which hospitals are they working at, do they teach etc.
Do a bit of research before you look for a doctor and you'll probably end up a lot happier. Just because a friend says they're good or they happen to speak some english does not mean that it's the doctor for you.
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Who knows if salt was a factor in Kirchner's death, but my guess would be that four packs of fags a day played a bigger role. CFK recently said that K smoked four a day, and before she quit she smoked two packs a day.MizzMarr said:Could be that the president recently lost her husband to a heart attack, misses him, and now wants to legislate against the kinds of behaviors that can be loosely linked or speculated to play a part in his brand of demise.
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syngirl said:
Yes looking for and paying for a Doctor here is another thing.. Public medicine well.. Shortly after my first time here one of my friends mothers came down with cancer.. I asked if she was going to the doctor. My friend informed me she had free public medical care. I thought WoW that is so cool.
5 months later while her mother was dieing in the public hospital I went to see the family. Oh my God! What I saw there blew my mind, in fact I was so freaked out I left there and started asking friends why that hospital was so bad.. They all responded that it was a public hospital and that people with money go to private hospitals.
In this hospital the rooms were filthy, the frames of the bed had not been cleaned in what looked like years. There were obvious stains of human waste and or blood that dried over months or years on the bed frames. There was no modern medical equipment anywhere. There was not even a curtain on the window.
Later I asked my friend if she had to tried to get private medicine. She said yes, but the family could not afford it. I was also told that the family was having problems getting the medicine they needed for her. How I wish, and that profoundly, I had been aware of this before I was face to face with the reality of it and the sad end of my friends mother.
There are sides to the poverty here that we as expats view from a distance and are not exposed to because of our resources. There are realities that I have encountered here that are life changing... this was one of them.
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tomdesigns said:
I'm very sorry to hear about those experiences.
My own experience of Argentine Public Hospitals has been completely different and much better than you describe. Then, my experience of British public healthcare has been brilliant too yet all the things you have described in Argentina have been documented in British hospitals too where they are symptoms of the system failing, not of systematic failure.
People say that public health care in Cap Fed is better than in la provincia and that provincials all come to the capital to use it. I don't know: the one time I used a public hospital outside Cap Fed was in Esquel where I found it simple, plain and unglamorous but clean, efficient and professional.
tomdesigns said:
You don't have to clarify you're not insulting anyone. I know more than one of my people would take it that way but just let them try to make sense and fail miserably.
You are being critical, don't excuse yourself. Foreign or not, you live here. You shouldn't be afraid of exercising your right to speak freely. If you have serious reasons to be, we are doing bad enough to consider our sloppy public health system a secondary concern.
About public medicine being pathetic, I know what you say and I saw it too, and I'm sorry about your experience, but you're not being fair to the human side of the system. Some really good doctors are performing a few miracles within that precarious environment, and some seriously poor people appreciate what they do very fondly.
It's a mindful reply of yours, but I don't want you to forget the good professionals working there. They deserve recognition.
