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One Response to “Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Finnish Emergency Medicine: An American’s Experience”

1. Jack Coupal Says:
   March 8th, 2009 at 10:21 am

   Scandanavian countries have a very homogeneous and unified population which allows socialized medicine to function in a halfway decent manner.

   In the rest of the world with our flotsam and jetsam populations, socialized medicine quickly evolves into disaster.