Take Two Aspirin and Call Me When Your Cancer is Stage 4

Aspirin is the remedy for everything from the acute pain which comes with osteoarthritis to a host of unpleasant ailments. While I find (socialised) medicine in Holland generally responsive, they do not believe in preventive medicine. For men, no prostate screenings or colonoscopy, for women, no gynecological exams or mammorgrams. Of course, if you are a pushy American, you can request these tests and hope the insurance pays for it. On the other, if you do have to pay, it is no where nearly as expensive as in the States. This might be connected to the complete absence of damaging lawsuits with punitive damage and therefore reasonable malpractice insurance rates. Perhaps if the US government enacted tort reform, the medical...