In article , HeyBub wrote:
hibb wrote:

For example, there are fewer than 200 MRI machines in the whole
country of Canada (and probably none in Cuba). We have more MRI
machines in my CITY than in the whole country of Canada.

Do yo have a cite for that?

"Pittsburgh has more MRI machines than Canada"
http://healthcare-economist.com/2008...s-than-canada/

"... the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Medical Imaging
in Canada, 2007 reports that in 2007, there were ... 222 MRI machines
installed and operational in Canada..."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/119356.php

"At the beginning of 2005, Canada had 176 MRI scanners..."

"Canada ranked 12th, reporting 5.5 MRI scanners per million people. Japan
and the U.S. had the highest number, with 35.3 and 27.0 per million,
respectively..."

http://www.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage....ia_08feb2006_e

And others.

In my city, there are 82 radiographic and imaging centers, each with
presumably at least one MRI. We have more than 100 hospitals, the largest
having 1,500 beds. At least half of these hospitals have MRI machines. The
city also has several hundred radiologists, orthopedists, and other
specialists with an MRI machine in the office.

Down from ~200 to 82?

Do all 82 of them have MRI scanners? (You did also say more than half
of 100.)

My experience with with orthopedists and radiologists is that they don't
have their own separate MRI scanner in their offices, as opposed to the MRI
scanners in the hospitals that let them practice there or in
hospital-associated rental medical office space.

As in "at least one MRI"? Everywhere I saw one or noted existence of
one, it appears to me that there was only one. As in 100% of 7 locations
where I gained enough familiarity to count them.

I suspect that many of these "imaging centers" lack a MRI but have a
CT scanner, it it sounds to me easy for near or over 99% of them to have
an X-ray machine other than a CT scanner.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_M...nes_in_the_US]
says that there may be 7,000 to 10,000 "MRI machines" in the US. If
Canada is to be populated with these to have same ratio of population of
these to population of people that USA has, then Canada should have 700 to
1,000 of them.

How badly does Canada fall short with about 220 of them, with their
lower incidence of off-base aggressive patients having private health
insurance from companies that make more money when healthcare business
increases, and lower incidence of doctors feeling need to keep themselves
safe from malpractice lawsuits? Also consider underutilization of
megabuck high-tech medical devices in USA because many hospitals want
the megabuck toys^H^H^H^Htools that are desired to be "in-house" by
"Top Ranked Physicians"?

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- Don Klipstein )