On May 28, 1:12�am, aemeijers wrote:
Peter wrote:
On 5/26/2010 7:13 PM, Bob F wrote:
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...as-more-mri-ma....

"... 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..

Sounds like proof of our wasteful system.

Exactly! �All this machine counting nonsense. �The bottom line is that
the average lifespan in the U.S. is well below that of countries that
may have far fewer state of the art diagnostic machines. �What's
important is if there are enough machines available to perform the
medically indicated tests, not how many machines are available to order
tests that are not medically indicated.

To belabor your point- most of the short lifespan figures in US are due
to bad habits, not bad medical care. Obesity, tobacco, and booze are the
usual suspects, aided by sloth. Eat a decent diet and get 2 or 3 x the
current average amount of exercise, lay off the booze and smokes, and
the health-care 'crisis' would mostly go away. Yeah, some people will
have accidents or bad genes kick in, but taking common-sense care of
oneself improves the living hell out of the odds. In country after
country that adopts the US style of eating and daily life, the
formerly-rare US style illnesses follow, and lifespan starts dropping.

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Exactly so! Including here in the UK.