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A Modern Public Health Crisis: A Physician Speaks about Healthcare in Post-Glasnost Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

STEVE HEILIG
STEVE HEILIG
Affiliation:
San Francisco Medical Society, Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees, San Francisco, California, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
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Abstract

I work at a large urban medical center. Our hospital has over 1,200 beds and was built in 1805 to take care of the poor. Our patients are still poor, but now so are the hospital and the doctors. Russian doctors are paid about one-third of what truck drivers are paid. The government historically allocates no more than 3% of the budget to medicine because this is not a means of production, like manufacturing.

Type
CQ INTERVIEW
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 257 - 258
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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