>>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/us_medicine_that_europe_envies_yIEydx1zI4L6YgN5vIFIyI
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>I am sure you are familiar with the word "anecdotal."
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>Jeez, Kevin, the NY Post? They have the best headline writers on the planet but are not exactly the source of rational proof. The implied raised finger at Europe in this article is where they have set up shop. Their target audience is the Joey Buttafuccos of the world.

The author is President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI).

If you are on the left: CMPI is a pharmaceutical industry front group
If you are on the right: CMPI is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization promoting innovative solutions that advance medical progress
If you are not left or right: CMPI is a non-profit medical issues research group that is partially funded by the pharmaceutical industry

His experience may have been exactly what he posted. Is it typical? Probably not (although I've had the same excellent emergency room treatment 3 times in my life)