Posted on 09/12/2005 11:23:11 AM PDT by minus_273
Dr. Luis Sauchay is the kind of hands-on physician you want in an emergency.
Though relatively young at 34, Sauchay has chalked up more than a decade of practicing hardship medicine.
Right out of medical school, he spent two years on the high seas, the only doctor for hundreds of fishermen aboard an industrial vessel.
During two other years, he cared for the sick and forgotten in an understaffed African clinic, treating countless cases of tuberculosis and cholera.
For the last five years, he has been the local family doctor for 200 working-class families in Havana’s Párraga neighborhood.
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Since it's illegal to practice medicine in the US without a state license, why is this even an issue?
Whine, whine, whine.
"Since it's illegal to practice medicine in the US without a state license, why is this even an issue?"
CASE CLOSED. Good call. Slime ball L/MSM.
Tell them we just need the cigars. Lots of cigars. For the poor.
Right. Who knew that Louisiana had license reciprocity with Cuba?
If Kennedy had not been chasing skirts and taken care business, we would probably be vacationing and fishing in Cuber today.
That is what I have been thinking. Just because you call yourself a Dr. in Cuba, how do we know these people are qualified. Furthermore, do they have the required malpractice insurance??
If Cuba were allowed to send the people to the US that they offered, how many escorts would be diverted to ensure that they are kept safe and not conducting in unauthorized activities (not accusing, just wondering). However, it would be interesting to see how many of them applied for asylum when they are in the US.
Don't forget the rum. Those dang debit cards were no good at the liquor store.
The evacuee efforts have more medical personnel than they can manage right now--they have so many US volunteers that they're having to turn them away...
Sometimes these restrictions can be just plain dumb. A friend of mine married a girl who he met here in the states. She was in our country on a work visa from Cuba, where she was a third year medical student. She was spending a year in a U.S. hospital for training on the idea that she would then return to Cuba and finish her work, then remain in country.
Somehow she was able to get permission from the Cuban government to remain in the Unied States. From what I've heard, there is a program that allows a few people each year to remain. She isn't in any trouble with the Cuban government and has been able to return and visit her family several times since declaring her intention to remain in the United States.
Now here's the silly part. U.S. medical schools won't accept any of her credit earned in Cuba. She can't "test out" to avoid retaking all her past classes. Instead, she has to start from scratch as if she had no medical education, costing her three years of schooling.
To me, this seems like a colossol waste of time, especially after she just wrapped up a year of residency on her work visa.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/06timeline.html
April 23, 1906
Imperial decree on the 30th Day of the Third Moon from Empress Dowager of China to send 100,000 taels as a personal contribution to the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. President Theodore Roosevelt declined the offer, as well as donations from other foreign governments.
"...required malpractice insurance??"
heh heh heh. Now there you go. And if one Cuban doctor killed a patient heaven help the POTUS, the Lennists would be all over him in less then a pico second.
Most Cuban doctors are as good if not better than most doctors you find in the US today.
Add that they are used to working in extreme coonditions with minimal medicine and/or resources to get the job done makes them excelllent candidates to work in areas such as NO.
Anyways, the main reason the US declined the aid is because Castro constantly refuses US aid when they are struck with a Hurricane or other natural disaster. It a tit for tat type of thing.
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