- a French doctor did the first joint replacement back in 1892 (a shoulder joint)
- French doctors are unionized, low paid, but have no student loans and minimal charges for malpractice insurance
- the French use a smart card to carry the person's health records. (Dallas Smith--who once worked for ASCS/FSA in tobacco and peanuts and pioneered the smart card for peanuts--is probably somewhere saying "I told you so").
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Health Care Factoids from T.R. Reid
I'm reading Reid's book on health care systems in different countries. From his chapter on France, a few factoids which struck me:
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