Off the subject, but in the same vein...

Have you ever noticed that we will bring people into our country to perform a 'new surgery'? The cases are usually some tough 10 hour plus cuts that involve multiple specialties.

For example, Siamese twins joined at the head.

Start off with an orthopod, vascular and brain surgeon. Add all the other folks in the room, circulating nurses, anesthesiologist, anesthetist...

At the press conference you will most always hear this, "It was a tough surgery, We never have done a case like this, We'll know when we get there."

Those cases have a 'humanitarian' shine on the outside, but my guess is that there are a few doctors involved with a new 'revolutionary' procedure that they are not willing perform or haven't yet performed it on a patient because of the risks involved.

Those risks include lawsuits, getting your license pinched and ?????


A third world patient(s) that die on the operating table are less likely to call lawyer should something go wrong.

Health care has always been a 'shot in the dark' when it comes to saving lives.

Some where, some place it started with some unlucky soul, human or animal, that gave countless others a second chance at life. LOL, one of the luckiest guys in the world is the one that woke up after the first successful ----------------- surgery.

Imagine how many they got wrong before that? The key word is when the doctor finishes and says "Successful"!