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**Quvwcxqx** · 07-06-2012, 02:11 AM

Connections, bribes, class, gender, and ethnicity heavily determined who were admitted into and graduated from medical schools throughout the Soviet Union. Thus the supplies of hospitals, physicians, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals all became victims of socialist central planning and political priorities just like everything else in the “workers’ paradise.” At the end of the 20th century, Russia was infamous for having one of the worst health-care systems in the world. Your family doctor will be gone.....replaced with an AA hire....who scored D's through college.

07-06-2012, 02:11 AM	#3
Quvwcxqx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	Connections, bribes, class, gender, and ethnicity heavily determined who were admitted into and graduated from medical schools throughout the Soviet Union. Thus the supplies of hospitals, physicians, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals all became victims of socialist central planning and political priorities just like everything else in the “workers’ paradise.” At the end of the 20th century, Russia was infamous for having one of the worst health-care systems in the world. Your family doctor will be gone.....replaced with an AA hire....who scored D's through college.
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