Flu exposes flaws in Mexico's health care system
Saturday, May 9, 2009 - 02:28
in Health & Medicine
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant....
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