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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Sweden is known for allowing new risky procedures quicker than its allowed in the US. A lot of US funded research is done in Sweden for this very reason. Sweden has a very genetically similar population, with a socialized system which allows easy patient tracking, and rules which let doctors do unnecessary and potentially harmful procedures on humans which are not allowed in the US.
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First of all, give me some sources about this "screws in the heads" study you're talking about. When did this take place, how many children was involved? I doubt this has been done in the last 50 years or so, and at that time the US was just as "barbaric".
What kind of rules give doctors powers to to unnecessary procedures? I have never heard of anything like that. Some more info on that too please.
You know, allowing "risky" procedures is kind of different from actually performing them. In Sweden you have a choice: Choose this procedure which is not as tested, or that procedure which has been performed for a longer time. You're making it sound like doctors do not inform patients about the risks of whatever procedure they are going to have, which is not true at all.
Swedish doctors are known to be very good, regardless of what you are trying to make them sound like. My american girlfriend and her mother (Who is a doctor) has lived in the US, Canada and Sweden and by far prefers the swedish health care compared to the other countries, and I have to say I believe them a little more than you, since I gather you have no experience of our system at all.
You saying that people go to the US for treatment is also kind of weird, since what I have heard (From my girlfriends mom among others) americans often go to Europe for these "risky" treatments you are talking about.
Also, just so you all know, should you not want to use the socialised wellcare system in Sweden, you don't have to. We have private doctors and private hospitals as well, it's all up to you which you prefer.