En Libertad Digital me explayo sobre el último documental de Michael Moore, un despropósito a propósito del sistema de salud estadounidense, el peor y más injusto del mundo según Moore, nada que ver con los paraísos de la medicina estatal de Canadá, Gran Bretaña, Francia o, ah!, Cuba.
El doctor cubano Leonardo Cordova, al que por supuesto no entrevista Moore (no permitas que un testimonio te arruine el aplauso en Cannes, Francia, y la demagogia), tiene una visión privilegiada porque ha trabajado en ambos sistemas: “But even if I diagnosed something simple like bronchitis,” he said, “I couldn’t write a prescription for antibiotics, because there were none.” He defected in 2000 while on a medical mission in Zimbabwe and made his way to the United States. He is now an urgent-care physician at Baptist Hospital in Miami. Having practiced medicine in both Cuba and the United States, Dr. Cordova has an unusual perspective for comparison. “Actually there are three systems,” Dr. Cordova said, because Cuba has two: one is for party officials and foreigners like those Mr. Moore brought to Havana. “It is as good as this one here, with all the resources, the best doctors, the best medicines, and nobody pays a cent,” he said. But for the 11 million ordinary Cubans, hospitals are often ill equipped and patients “have to bring their own food, soap, sheets — they have to bring everything.” And up to 20,000 Cuban doctors may be working in Venezuela, creating a shortage in Cuba.
PD. ¿Tiene Moore límites a su narcisismo patológico? Al final de Sicko se pavonea con voz acaramelada, como la que emplea Cartman en sus peores momentos solidarios, de haber entregado anónimamente un cheque de 12.000 dólares al mantenedor de una web anti-Moore para ayudarle en el tratamiento del cáncer de su mujer. ¿"Anónimamente" dice? Evangelio según San Mateo 6.3.
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El doctor cubano Leonardo Cordova, al que por supuesto no entrevista Moore (no permitas que un testimonio te arruine el aplauso en Cannes, Francia, y la demagogia), tiene una visión privilegiada porque ha trabajado en ambos sistemas: “But even if I diagnosed something simple like bronchitis,” he said, “I couldn’t write a prescription for antibiotics, because there were none.” He defected in 2000 while on a medical mission in Zimbabwe and made his way to the United States. He is now an urgent-care physician at Baptist Hospital in Miami. Having practiced medicine in both Cuba and the United States, Dr. Cordova has an unusual perspective for comparison. “Actually there are three systems,” Dr. Cordova said, because Cuba has two: one is for party officials and foreigners like those Mr. Moore brought to Havana. “It is as good as this one here, with all the resources, the best doctors, the best medicines, and nobody pays a cent,” he said. But for the 11 million ordinary Cubans, hospitals are often ill equipped and patients “have to bring their own food, soap, sheets — they have to bring everything.” And up to 20,000 Cuban doctors may be working in Venezuela, creating a shortage in Cuba.
PD. ¿Tiene Moore límites a su narcisismo patológico? Al final de Sicko se pavonea con voz acaramelada, como la que emplea Cartman en sus peores momentos solidarios, de haber entregado anónimamente un cheque de 12.000 dólares al mantenedor de una web anti-Moore para ayudarle en el tratamiento del cáncer de su mujer. ¿"Anónimamente" dice? Evangelio según San Mateo 6.3.
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