{"id":807,"date":"2008-03-03T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2008-03-03T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:34:00","slug":"crooks-and-liars-60-minutes-charity-trying-to-make-up-for-failing-u-s-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Crooks and Liars \u00bb 60 Minutes: Charity Trying To Make Up For Failing U.S. Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/03\/03\/60-minutes-charity-trying-to-make-up-for-failing-us-health-care-system\/\">Crooks and Liars \u00bb 60 Minutes: Charity Trying To Make Up For Failing U.S. Health Care System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you\u2019re looking for a story that shows the abysmal state of health care in America, look no further. 60 Minutes traveled to Knoxville, TN to film a free clinic set up by a charity group called Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, or RAM. The charity was initially started in the 90\u2019s by it\u2019s founder, Stan Brock, former co-star of Wild Kingdom, to give health care relief to remote areas of Latin America, but after watching this segment it\u2019s clear that America\u2019s health care system doesn\u2019t look too much different than that of a third world country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The video of the 60 Minutes story is available for viewing at the C&amp;L site and it is definitely worth watching, if only to count the thousands of anecdotes available for those who <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cmhmd.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/%22Anecdote-Off%22\"><em>like that sort of thing<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>In a related anecdote, a patient I saw today with (now) advanced lung cancer, who had this gem in his history and physical: &#8220;He developed severe, unremitting left sided chest pain beneath his clavicle and along his left anterior <strong>chest about 4 to 5 months ago. He did not seek medical attention due to lack of health insurance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooks and Liars \u00bb 60 Minutes: Charity Trying To Make Up For Failing U.S. Health Care System &#8220;If you\u2019re looking for a story that shows the abysmal state of health &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crooks and Liars \u00bb 60 Minutes: Charity Trying To Make Up For Failing U.S. Health Care System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23,33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-off","category-access-to-treatment","category-rationing-health-care","category-remote-area-medical"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}