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- verevi, on 10/16/2007, -4/+36The smallest ratio is a good thing, moron. It actually supports Moore's suggestions.
- cheesecake42, on 10/19/2007, -7/+39anybody else notice that cuba has the smallest ratio?
- randomm, on 10/16/2007, -5/+21Damnit! At first I was really confused because I saw that Guatemala had a ratio of 1.100:1. I thought, "What the hell, is everyone a doctor there?" Then I realized it was that weirdo European thing where they use periods instead of commas.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -8/+22i did, and it was HILARIOUS
- joot2112, on 10/16/2007, -1/+14In Europe, the decimal point is used like the comma is used in the U.S.
- airiox, on 10/16/2007, -2/+15That a half a megabyte of bandwidth per hit. The story was properly linked and the site in unobtrusive, its not nice to steal.
- bartpieters, on 10/16/2007, -0/+12Actually the world is about half split on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
- slashbot, on 10/16/2007, -3/+14Last I checked people can still go to the emergency room regardless of insurance.
Whats that? yes. It is used (and abused) all the time. - lead2thehead, on 10/22/2007, -1/+12I guess if you get sick in Africa, you're pretty much on your own.
- TubaTechno, on 10/16/2007, -1/+12It's against federal law to refuse anyone health care whether they have insurance or not. Most likely, if you cant' pay for the health care, the tax payers pay for it anyway.
- CreativeGuy, on 10/15/2007, -1/+11staggering numbers, to say the least. Great idea!
- ncc74656m, on 10/16/2007, -6/+16Umm, sarcasm, I hope?
- MrSteamTank, on 10/16/2007, -4/+14Cuba is actually number 1 in that category. Communism actually working in certain aspects? HERESY!
- sum4me, on 10/22/2007, -3/+13that is a great visual. now what i want to see in a similar map is : a) the cost of healthcare per person and b) the average medical malpractice rates per country
- TubaTechno, on 10/16/2007, -4/+13Define Middle Class? Ambiguous? Good because thats what politicians want.
I make 63k a year, married, household income about 72k. I can afford insurance for me and my wife, why can't you again?
Also, you need to clarify the difference between "health coverage" and "health care". America is one of the world's top places for quality health care, yet health coverage still seems to be lacking. The major difference between Republicans and Democrats in this issue of health coverage is HOW to fix it. - Parthymon, on 10/16/2007, -1/+10Because that's 1,200. Did you not stop to wonder why they added 2 extra decimal places for no reason?
- RLCrisp, on 10/16/2007, -0/+8Wow, so...yeah. Other people already said it but you are an absolute idiot. I wish I could revoke your right to attempt making clever/sarcastic comments.
- DaFunk, on 10/22/2007, -3/+11Those numbers are getting worse everywhere, especially in the US. By 2020, there will be a projected physician shortage of 200,000 doctors. That's for many reasons; capping the amount of doctors graduating from med school as well as increased costs in attending school, decreased prestige and pay, increased job dissatisfaction and lawsuits, and fear of future changes in the health care system. I hate to paint a bleak picture, but this shortage scares me much more than our current health care system "crisis." You can reform all you want, but without enough doctors to staff it, any change is pointless.
- Hananda, on 10/16/2007, -0/+8A high ratio of doctors to patients says nothing of quality of service. They could require a 6-month training program to become a doctor in Russia for all this chart tells us.
- OsiVert, on 10/22/2007, -1/+9Yeah, some places are scary, but I wonder what the quality is vs. quantity. Some doctors have access to better equipment, training and medicine. I would rather go to a doctor in Japan rather than in Mexico even though the ratio is the same.
- mstoneburner, on 10/15/2007, -2/+10Because if Cuba claims it has 170 inhabitants per doctor, it must be true, right?
- WootZoot, on 10/15/2007, -2/+9I have seen you say this three times in the comments section, and every time I read it, you just sound dumber and dumber.
- RLCrisp, on 10/15/2007, -0/+7You actually believed that essentially every inhabitant is a doctor in Jamaica. You stated it multiple times. You seriously need to take a math or thinking course....somewhere. If you would have actually thought about it (wow, that is impossible, not EVERYBODY in Jamaica is a doctor), you would have realized that 1200:1 or whatever it was is the only reasonable conclusion because the decimal point was acting as a comma.
- joot2112, on 10/22/2007, -0/+7I want to see it next to a) infant mortality rates and b) average life span.
- TubaTechno, on 10/15/2007, -0/+7I personally don't think the issue is about the number of doctors. I think it's about the outrageous health care costs. Now American could either pay for people's health care, or create a system that encourages increased competition and incentives.
- rcflyr, on 10/16/2007, -0/+7Can I see this map lawyers instead of doctors?
- Thunderchild329, on 10/19/2007, -7/+13If you have the money/insurance to pay for it.
- DaFunk, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6Well, next time you break a leg, suffer passing a kidney stone or get an infection, just stay at home. I mean, doctors will just "push pills," getting some ridiculous phantom kick-back from pharmaceutical companies, right? Heck, skip the middle man and just call your local pharmacist.
- asskey, on 10/16/2007, -2/+8Cuba does two things well. Education and healthcare.
Just about everything else they do to their citizens is enough to get them to drop all that and board a raft to Florida. - DittoMuch, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6I'd expect that they would still have very high doctor and engineer ratios. The Soviet system without a doubt favored creating doctors and engineers (they sure didn't need or want lawyers) so I would expect that they have a high number of doctors but with a more dubious record when it comes to 'practicing' and I'd be curious as to how well the system of checks and balances actually works.
- subxero37, on 10/19/2007, -0/+6They should have used PNG -- just for fun I tried it and the image was only 100k, under one-fourth of the original image size with no quality loss.
I think a lot of people forget the JPEG is great for photographs, where lossy compression works well, but for images like this, where there is lots of repetitive data (black pixel, black pixel, black pixel) formats like PNG work wonders. Also, JPEG tends to make text less readable, due to its lossy nature. - ItsMyWii, on 10/22/2007, -3/+8That's why I'm taking Pre-Med. Wish me luck!
- WootZoot, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5The Netherlands is in the middle of Europe. Its ratio is 320:1. Its special to them, and us, because it shows how lucky we are to live in a country that has any form of healthcare at all (not to say it couldn't stant quite a few reforms, but we are still damn lucky)
- paxil, on 10/15/2007, -6/+11I'm middle class. My whole family is middle class. Everybody I know has health insurance. It's pretty easy to get insurance in this country.
- calinazaret, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5So let's get rid of all the doctors? :/
- joot2112, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5Insert foot in mouth. Countries that use a comma include: Australia, Brunei, Botswana, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea (both North and South), Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, China, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Zimbabwe. By population, far more people use a comma than a decimal.
- clickwir, on 10/15/2007, -1/+6So which one is the Netherlands and why is it so special to them?
- DaFunk, on 10/22/2007, -1/+6Good luck. If you're doing it for the right reasons, it's still worth it. (Don't listen to all those that will tell you otherwise.)
- Richandler, on 10/22/2007, -3/+8This chart proves that your health care isn't a social issue. It's an educational issue. More doctors = cheaper and better health care. Socializing the system will not solve either of those issues. It's all about education.
- thevelvetsun, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5LOL took you long enough.
- DittoMuch, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5It didn't however the numbering system isn't universal. same as $ isn't universal.
1,000 = american US
1 000 = canada
1.000 = netherlands
all the same number different ways of writing it. - pieinthesky, on 10/17/2007, -4/+8No, you're a weirdo.
- Butros, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5You're right. But Digg is an American website. So it's completely understandable to expect periods for decimal points in content submitted here.
- mahdaeng, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4Actually, everyone's a doctor in India.
- WootZoot, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4jamacia has 1,200. those .'s aren't decimals. they are used to seperate number groups, like we use commas here.
- DittoMuch, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Cuba doesn't educate lawyers, they don't educated many people in marketing. You have about the same ratio of brilliant people regardless of where you are in the world. Cuba does have universal education and very quickly good students are placed in areas that the government wants them to follow. As there is always a benefit to more doctors or engineers communist countries tend to focus on them.
Take a look at an American university and remove 'film studies' then remove general arts then start removing business and law and economic schools. How many students does this free up for math science agriculture and medicine. This is also why you see a very high number through most of the former USSR, students were not given free choice in what to study. - SimonGray, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4How is that ironic? They use commas/dots the same way in the UK. It's the rest of the Europe that's different from the US.
- superyounan1, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5cuba is doing well
- Nonplussed, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Yep 1,500:1. Notice there are tiny words under the numbers. Those are the names of countries.
- MxM111, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4In Soviet Russia you treat the doctor (it is partially true BTW)
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