Triage?? Did I miss something? In my first aid and rescue work triage has
to do with sorting multiple victims such that the ones needing treatment
first are actually treated first.
/jmac
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jan Steinman
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:32 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Health Care
> From: Richard Ociepka <ociepka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> what
>> difference does it make how fast you can schedule an MRI if you don't
>> have any way to pay for it?
>
> In many cases if you can't get treatment fast enough it won't
> matter if
> you pay or not.
As I pointed out, it's called "triage."
Can you really cite a case where someone in Canada died or had other
serious consequences because they didn't get an MRI "fast enough?"
You can't take a statistical average and make a case that people
aren't getting something "fast enough." It could be that a longer
average waiting time means people are being treated successfully in
some other way. Or not. It could be that a shorter average waiting
time means that unnecessary procedures are being performed. Or not.
You just can't tell from a single number.
:::: Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have
guided missiles and misguided man. Martin Luther King Jr.
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/02CJDBGF>
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