Further on the issue of horrible legal-issue-oriented health care in the "West" - when I was back in the States a few years ago a niece was in ICU on the edge of death and I went to visit her with her FATHER - my brother - and the staff at the hospital REFUSED to give her FATHER any information about her status!

Yeah, yeah, I understand the legal issues - but such stupidity just doesn't arise in this part of the world. The girl's FATHER for God's sake - at her death bed . . . what foolishness.

And the West constantly tries to tell the East how to do things . . .