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These stats are so messed up they are meaningless. We just sent back our  
french exchange student yesterday, had his brother with us last year. His 
mother  is a doctor, the father works for a major drug company in France. 
They 
tell a  very different story and are jealous of our system. Those countries 
above us  have govt controlled systems and the govt. issuing stats. For 
example, do you  know we are one of the only countries that includes abortion 
as 
infant  mortality. take that alone off and we jump to the top. If a patient 
checks into  a hospital with one of a number of life threatening 
conditions, the hospital  does not have to count his death against the 
hospital 
statistics. What my French  friends told me is that simple math will tell you 
that 
either hundreds of  thousands of Frenchmen disappear off the planet every 
year, or the mortality  rate is way wrong. If you are diagnosed with breast 
cancer in France you are 5  times more likely to die from it, same for 
Prostate Cancer. Heart problems are  even more skewed. People don't leave the 
US 
in droves to seek surgery in  canada or europe, but check the number of 
canadians and europeans coming here  for medical treatment. A head injury if 
thought minor gets a cat scan in 5  weeks, if death is likely, 5 days...... 
we 
get one in hours here. Stats should  never be blindly believed.

Drew
 
 
In a message dated 7/24/2009 12:12:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mmcharry AT gmail.com writes:

There  are many criteria, and a rating is given for each. Two of the
major ones  used by the WHO are infant mortality and healthy  life
expectancy.

Marie

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