FROM THE ANNALS OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE - AT 8:02 A.M. ET:  From London's Daily Mail:

A police officer collapsed and died after giving birth to twins after staff shortages meant she had to wait for four days to be induced, an inquest has heard.  James and Hannah were delivered by emergency Caesarean just before PC Sarah Underhill died on Sunday, October 5, last year - four days after she had been admitted to hospital.

COMMENT:  Of course we have some problems with our own medical system.  But there are an inordinate number of stories like this coming out of Britain, and other countries with socialized medicine.

One great advantage our system has is speed.  If there's an emergency, it's treated like one.  Obviously, there may be failures and exceptions, even here,  but we seem to do "critical" a lot better than anyone else.

April 17, 2009