Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!diablo.efnet.com!efnet.com!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!61.196.175.205!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Adequate emergency care could have saved 40 percent of patients' lives Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:43:31 +0900 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <3F8AC120.9B96410@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.196.175.205 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066092213 21910710 61.196.175.205 (16 [101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:6438 "Eric Takabayashi" 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