Paul writes Yuri Maltsev: I’ve just been listening to the talk you gave to the AAPS in Omaha last May, and thought it excellent. Here in Britain our hospitals are increasingly like the sort of thing you describe [in the USSR]: It’s interesting to speak to those who are old enough to remember what British hospitals were like before 1948 (the year in which the Socialist health minister boasted of his effectively buying off the doctors, infamously saying of his bribery, “I stuffed their mouths with gold”). Those with memories of pre-War Britain typically speak of clean, efficient hospitals, run … Continue reading Britain’s Soviet Hospitals