Word: allwood
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Some people have even found it necessary to leave the country to find medical care at prices they can afford. Dr. Martin Allwood, a Swedish-born sociologist who had spent 25 years of his life in the U.S., gave up on American medicine after a series of expensive examinations failed to diagnose his problem. Returning to the country of his birth, he spent another year having X rays and tests before exploratory surgery disclosed an unusually inaccessible cancer. Allwood found the treatment excellent and the costs low. Private medicine is still practiced in Sweden, but the government maintains an elaborate...
...Allwood's experience points up the major difference between European and American medicine. Ever since Chancellor Otto von Bismarck initiated the first such plan for German workers in 1883, national health programs have been an important aspect of the welfare state. The Swedes have had a national health system since 1955, the Norwegians since 1956; Britain adopted its national health scheme in 1948. Indeed, among the world's major industrial nations, only the U.S. has thus far failed to devise some kind of national program that either provides or subsidizes comprehensive health care...