pector@ihuxw.UUCP (Scott W. Pector) (12/19/83)
This is from a followup article that I posted in net.politics: Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Red AND Dead References: <404@pucc-h> And I'm glad that mine left Lithuania (paternal grandparents) in the 1890s and Poland (maternal grandparents) in the 1900s. An interesting book to read on the Soviet medical system (as well as a source on various Soviet health statistics, i.e., the average Soviet woman can expect to have 6, count 'em, SIX abortions in her lifetime) is called "Inside Russian Medicine," which was written by an American doctor who was the first American physician to travel with American trade shows in the 1970s. He did so because one time an American in such a show had appendicitis and died while being treated in a Soviet hospital. Nobody understood why that happened, and the State Department admitted that they knew nothing about Soviet medical practice. It was felt that it would be better to have an American physician go along to see that things were done right until they were certain about the Soviet medical system. The book was published in 1981, I believe. Scott Pector