Yesterday, there was a devastating story in the New York Times about bribery in the health care system in Romania. It seems that if you want good medical care Romania, you have to know how to bribe your doctor – because if you give too little, it won’t make any difference anyway.
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[the patient] bribed her gynecologist with an extra $255 in cash, paid in monthly installments handed over discreetly in white envelopes.
She paid a nurse about $32 extra to guarantee an epidural and even gave about $13 to the orderly to make sure he did not drop the stretcher.
But on the day of her delivery, she said, her gynecologist never arrived.
