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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF
I stand corrected Dr. Riot.
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I am a Dr. Riot, but we vets certainly treat alot of cancers. We use the same chemotherapeutic and radiation therapies as humans do, and there is alot of crossover and shared information between human and animal cancers.
Even in countries with real socialized medicine (the US is not by any means close with any of the healthcare reform bills pending), stories about long waits for treatment revolve mainly along elective, non-life-threatening lines. Horror stories are rare.
Far rarer than here in the US, where you have to have a certain income level to get "the best" care, where having a serious cancer can readily bankrupt your family when the insurance company decides not to pay or stops paying, and where early diagnosis of many diseases is often missed because many people simply cannot afford to see a doctor on a regular, preventive or timely basis.
That is WHY there is such a massive push for healthcare reform in this country. Because we NEED it!