Summary
Asman details a sampling of the tradeoffs in modern health care problems as he and his wife viewed them firsthand. Due to his wife's stroke, they spent almost a full month in a British public hospital and also arranged for a complex medical procedure to be done in one of the few remaining private hospitals in Britain. His wife then spent about three weeks recuperating in a New York City (NYC) hospital as an in-patient and has since used another NYC hospital for physical therapy8 as an outpatient. They thus have had a chance to sample the health diet available under two very different systems of health care.
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There's No Place Like Home
MR. ASMAN, COULD YOU COme down to the gym? Your wife appears to be having a small problem." In typical British understatement, this was the first word I received of my wife's stroke.
We had arrived in London the night before for a two-week vacation. We spent the day sightseeing and were planning to go to the theater. I decided to take a nap, but my wife wanted to get in a workout in the hotel's gym before theater. Little did either of us know that a tiny blood clot had developed in her leg on the flight to London and was quietly working its way up to her heart. Her workout on the "Stairmaster" pumped the clot right through a too-porous wall in the heart on a direct path to the right side of her brain.Hurrying down to the gym, I suspected that whatever the "small" problem was, we might still have time to make the play. Instead, our lives were about to change fundamentally and we were both about to experience firsthand th...See the full content of this document
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