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Caribbean-Latin America
Castro surgery seems to have been botched: experts
2007-01-17
MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro has long prided himself on Cuba's doctors and free public health care system, but that system seems to have let him down after he fell ill in July , U.S.-based doctors said on Tuesday.
Health care in the socialist paradise let El Jefe down?
I'll be the first to mix up a pitcher of mojitos when the old goat kicks, but Israel's vaunted medicos let Ariel Sharon down as well in his hour of need. It sux to get old and sick. Now stabilize already, Fidelito.
Based on a report in Tuesday's edition of Spain's El Pais newspaper, the doctors -- who have no first-hand knowledge of Castro's condition -- said Castro had received questionable or even botched care at the hands of health experts on his communist-ruled island. "It's not a good story. Too bad they didn't send him to Miami for surgery," said Dr. Charles Gerson, a clinical professor of medicine in the gastroenterology division of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
Ouch, ouch, ouch. Even Miami's big public hospital, Jackson Memorial, would have provided far better care than anything Castro would have received in Havana.
According to two medical sources cited by El Pais, the veteran revolutionary was in "very serious" condition after three failed operations on his large intestine for diverticulitis, or pouch-like bulges in the intestine, complicated by infection.
Ahah! Sepsis! Sacrificing a goat works every time, almost...
Posted by:Steve White

#27   sounds like a sex aid for our San Francisco constituency

heh thats it Frank, el quebracho Castro needed an ASS ectomy all along!

:-)
Posted by: RD   2007-01-17 22:42  

#26  You know how the left keeps touting Cuba's superiority to the U.S. because even though they have concentration camps, they have, like, a better health care system, m-a-a-a-a-a-a-n?

Heard much from those folks on this subject lately?

Right.
Posted by: no mo uro   2007-01-17 20:10  

#25  sounds like a sex aid for our San Francisco constituency
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-17 19:00  

#24  All that money wasted on artificial hearts, turns out the artificial ass is where the action is going to be.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-01-17 17:49  

#23  RD: you owe my boss a new keyboard. Please post a Coffee Alert next time.
Thank you.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-01-17 15:26  

#22  BigEd: ...The flexible inner member is located within the outer member and the expandable member or members are located between the inner member and the outer support structure. The expandable members are expanded and contracted, or inflated and deflated to provide a pumping action that pumps the material through the organ. The prosthesis may also include valves or sphincters at the entrance and/or exit points of the organ where material moves into and out of the prosthesis. An implantable pump unit may be included for inflating and deflating the expandable members according to a desired sequence.....

B'waaaaaaaa lol! ;-)
Posted by: RD   2007-01-17 15:08  

#21  Patent on the Prosthetic Bowel
Posted by: BigEd   2007-01-17 15:02  

#20  U.S. medical experts were also puzzled by El Pais' report that Castro had undergone a third operation to implant a Korean-made prosthesis, possibly an artificial stretch of bowel, after a second failed operation to clean and drain an infected area and perform a colostomy.

Some of the lesser known exports. I guess there is more coming from Korea than Hyundais, and Computer screens...
Posted by: BigEd   2007-01-17 14:59  

#19  Socalized medicine...

My wife is from Russia, and there is a horror story of her teeth, and my long-time dentist who did the repairs...

But hey, it is the "People's Medicine", And amazing that folks want Hillary so bad...
Posted by: BigEd   2007-01-17 14:54  

#18  Remember this the next time one of your lefty friends brings up that great Cuban Health Care System they're so proud of...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-17 13:42  

#17  Good call, Angie!
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2007-01-17 11:05  

#16  Lol, and here we have more news of "cubans being worried about the well-being of el commandate", or the "secrecy about the health of the great men of the world". He's toast, he has been since the first incident, he's only taking his time to rot away from gut cancer. Goodbye, fidel, you'll leave many an hollyweird lefty orphelin when you go... thanks karl marx God the Forces of Progress everywhere have hugo to replace you.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-01-17 11:00  

#15  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-01-17 10:51  

#14  Speaking of the Ded

Breaking: NEW VIDEO OF SADDAM

»:-)
Posted by: RD   2007-01-17 07:16  

#13  Faster please.
Posted by: Mike   2007-01-17 06:49  

#12  It's good for him, builds character.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-01-17 06:31  

#11  Mojitos, cuba libres, and daiquiris.....gonna be a hell of a party when The Bearded One dies!

I'm just wondering if some of what he's enjoying suffering isn't deliberate, though. There seem to be too many screw ups. One of the docs getting revenge for a family member, perhaps?
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2007-01-17 05:45  

#10  Sepsis for the win!!!
Posted by: gromky   2007-01-17 05:10  

#9  Gives a whole new meaning to praying for sepsis doesn't it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2007-01-17 04:41  

#8  [crystal ball, looking inside Castro]

'0 bejeebus saints preserveus....there be sh*tty pus and pusy sh*t divert'culating everywhere.. 0 my gawd there's sum Castro Gastro and Extra Thrombi too.....

[/crystal ball looking inside Castro]
Posted by: RD   2007-01-17 01:31  

#7  Che is waiting in hell for him, I hope they meet up soon.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2007-01-17 01:31  

#6  In Total Parenteral Nutrition, infected IV catheters, unbalanced fluid & electrolytes, unbalanced nutrition, leaving a key nutrient out, can kill in so many different ways.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-01-17 00:59  

#5  On top of that, i.v. feeding ('total parental nutrition') is frought with issues.

Vein burning?
Posted by: Shipman   2007-01-17 00:51  

#4  Heh. Botch him up some more please :-)
Posted by: Jiling Glinetle9021   2007-01-17 00:42  

#3  "It sounds like they tried to spare him the colostomy, which would have been the safer and more conservative approach...

He said the use of a prosthesis in such cases was "experimental" at best and unheard of in the United States.

I'm guessing Fidel had "issues" with the idea of the colostomy, and insisted the doctors try something else.

I'll be the first to mix up a pitcher of mojitos...

No, no! Cuba libres!

Posted by: Angie Schultz   2007-01-17 00:40  

#2  I wish him ill.
Posted by: Verlaine   2007-01-17 00:39  

#1  Sounds like a shitty deal.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-01-17 00:26  

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