My uncle just had a heart attack a couple of days ago. He went into the hospital complaining of chest pains and subsequently had the attack while he was there. They took care of him, installed a stent, and it sounds like he’s doing OK. If you’re going to have a heart attack, having it in the hospital is probably the best place to do it…<\/p>\n
I started thinking about what would have happened here. People tend to avoid the hospitals here, and for good reason. I have yet to hear of a good report of any hospital here, and the amount of questionable medicine practiced here is unbelievable. If someone felt chest pains, they probably wouldn’t go to the hospital. If they had a heart attack, they would just have to pray that they would survive it. Even if it happened in the hospital, I’m not sure there’s too much that they could do. I’m pretty sure that installing stents and angioplasty are out of the question. My teacher’s uncle was in really bad shape, he needed heart bypass surgery but get this, they don’t do that in Yemen. Bypass surgery is serious stuff, but it is fairly common in the US, it just isn’t done here. They just don’t have the expertise. Luckily for my teacher’s uncle, a team from Europe was here to train people, so they used him as a teaching aid. <\/p>\n
We moan and gripe about our healthcare in the US, but the fact is that a homeless man now can receive better care than the president of the United States did in the 1950’s. We’ve come a long way, and Yemen has a long ways to go…<\/p>\n
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