I have deleted a promotion for an "alternative" clinic in Mexico. This was done for two reasons. One is that if they want to use the site to advertise there are channels to do that and they pay for the service. Second, is that the sort of "medicine" they offer is not something I consider valid and which I don't want to promote. So that also means that if they go through channels to advertise I will turn down the advertisment and the revenue.
You know I've heard some very good experiences about medical and dental care south of the border and I've heard some horror stories where patients have died or caught some other deadly disease as a result of poor sanitation.
These tales seem to run about 50% one way and 50% the other. I'd love to go and get cheap healthcare like that but I'm scared of maybe catching HIV or Hepatitis or some such other beasty.
Of course it seems now that with MRSA spreading like wildfire in certain places that US hospitals don't have a monopoly on cleanliness.
I don't know buddy. Saving that kind of money and getting that kind of good care sure seems worth it but it only takes one time to cost you for the rest of your life.
Sure and obviously I wouldn't just walk in and seek care without any knowledge in advance. In this case I have friends who live in Mexico and who recommended this dentist.
And while I didn't go into details my experience in the US with an American dentist was second rate across the board. Yet he was the only local dentist who had an opening. Certainly the hospitals near where I was staying in England were having major problems with MSRA and other infections.
I actually commented to my friends in Mexico that I thought there was a good opportunity for a business to act as a liaison between health care providers in the Mexico and American patients -- a business that keeps an eye on the quality of service and recommends the best doctors. In addition they could help find good hotels and provide transportation to appointments as needed.
Certainly with the internet is becoming easier to see what sort of recommendations people give to service providers.
The unstate premise in your post (whether you are aware of it or not) is that state regulation provides better care. But in my case the regulation prevented better care. My pain was very severe yet the dentist refused to prescribe a pain killer that would work because he feared the regulations.
Funny I have the same thing with the OBI in the UK. Since I am diabetic the chemists will not give me a whole range of medication including the fairly harmless sodium citrate used as a palliative for cystisis.
I get this from time to time, and my doctor tells me to use sodium citrate and come to him if it does not go away. The only way I can get it is to tell the chemist I do not have diabetes, otherwise I have to wait in line for a doctors appointment to get a prescription for something easily bought over the counter.
So the medical profession prefers to keep patients in pain rather than deal with it.
Stupid is it not?
Stupid? Indeed. The problem seems to be that government assumes that one solution fits all. And it can't think outside the box. So it mandates solutions based on the assumptions it has. And in some cases the mandate may be reasonable. But life is messy and complicated and there are so many exceptions to the rules that the bureaucrats can't deal with it. The net result is that while the regulations might be beneficial to some people they tend to be damaging to large numbers of other people who are simply ignored.
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