Looking at this line in a report on Castro’s medical problems (“It cited two unnamed sources from the Gregorio Marañón hospital in Madrid. The hospital employs the surgeon José Luis García Sabrido, who flew to Cuba in December to treat the 80-year-old leader.”) in the Guardian, Tim Worstall has a question for those who so love to praise the Cuban health care system:
“Why isn’t he being treated by a Cuban doctor? Diverticulitis, colostomies, these are not particularly rare diseases or treatments are they?”
Good question.
Lenin, of course, did the same in the course of what eventually turned out to be his final ilness. He disdained the efforts of the local doctors he described as “Soviet bunglers” and shipped in a few foreign specialists. With the Party’s approval, of course.
Nothing changes.