WHEN MEDICAL DOCTORS STRIKE

Alois Kolar, B.HSc.

In Bogota - Colombia in 1970, there was a 52 days period in which doctors disappeared altogether except for emergency care. The "National Catholic Reporter" described a "string of unusual side effects" from the strike. The death rate went down for 35%.
A spokesman for the National Morticians' Association said: "It might be a coincidence but it is a fact!"

An 18% drop in the death rate occurred in USA - California Los Angeles county in 1976 when doctors there went on strike to protest soaring malpractice insurance premiums. Dr. Milton Roemer, Professor of Health Care Administration at UCLA, surveyed 17 major hospitals and found that 60% fewer operations were performed. When the strike ended and the medical machines started grinding again, the death rate went right back up to where it had been before the strike.

The same thing happened in Israel in 1973 when the doctors reduced their daily patient contact from 65,000 to 7,000. The strike lasted a month. According to the Jerusalem Burial Society, the Israeli death rate dropped 50% during that month. There had not been such a profound decrease in mortality since the last doctors' strike twenty years before!

When the doctors were asked to explain this phenomenon, they said that since they only attended emergency cases, they could invest their best energies into the care of the truly ill people. When they didn't have to listen to the day-to-day, presumably unimportant complaints of the average patients, they could devote themselves to a greater saving of life… 😉 ~ R. S. Mendelsohn, M.D., Confession of an medical heretic, p.114

Cuando los doctores de medicina huelgan

Lendava — Slovenija, 21. januar, 2019