• volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    That’s true. Russia does have really good doctors - if you have money. And you have to be able to withstand yelling and belittling but as a Russian you get used to that.

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      6 days ago

      A friend of mine is truggling with that. I wouldn’t have thought that Moscow’s health care was so shitty. I was for some reason expecting the opposite.

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope they find some qualified care soon. Is the problem the access (money, status) or can’t they find proper treatment for other reasons?

    • NoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      There was a great show about Russian healthcare a while back. Can’t recall the name, but it had Jon Hamm and Harry Potter in it.

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        A young doctor’s notebook - based on a Russian novel from Michael Bulgakov. I’m so sad they discontinued it 😭 I think about it once a week at least!

        But it takes place around WWI, so… Not exactly a 1:1 portrayal of Russian medicine today

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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        That’s a perverted amount of money. But yeah that should do.

        So it’s not like she is being denied treatment. She is being denied a specific treatment in a specific prestigious clinic in Britain. But honestly, Russians can cure cancer just as well ( - provided you have the money to pay them). Moscow has prestigious clinics and great resources. I’d much rather get treatment there than in some rural British hospital to be honest.

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        6 days ago

        If he had that much money then surely he’d have been able to pay for a military to defend his position in Syria.