"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3F8AC120.9B96410@yahoo.co.jp...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/qqlm

> About 40 percent of the people who died at emergency
> medical centers across Japan could have been saved if
> they had received adequate emergency care, according to
> a recent study by the Ministry of Health, Labor and
> Welfare.

The problem is, shouldn't that emergency care include paramedics? If
paramedics can't even administer CPR, you're gonna get a lot more "mamonaku
shibou shimashita" on presentation.

But yes, the emergency rooms are a joke, too. Usually they get some scrub
doctor in there fresh out of medical school, who doesn't know what the hell
is going on, to basically say "ok, come back tomorrow."

> * My hometown hospital was overhauled about 20 years
> ago, and despite being in a town of less than 10,000,
> looks more like "E.R." than anything I have ever seen
> in Japan outside of fiction.

Japanese hospitals are some of the most depressing places I have ever seen.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom