..."At the time that Black wrote this editorial, the United States had virtually eliminated waiting lists for surgery. Its hospitals were more efficient than those of the NHS and its medical schools managed to adequately train physicians. It had also treated larger and larger numbers of patients as its population grew. Americans patients referred for surgery had already determined that their symptoms wouldn’t resolve without it, and they somehow managed to prepare for their operations without going through long periods of uncertainty about when they would actually be treated. In the future, however, things may be very different"...
http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/uk-professor-rationing-by-waiting-isn%e2%80%...
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