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Stroke treatment in Berlin
is far too slow.
We have ambulances everywhere
but it is not enough.
Brain cells are dying.
Do you have a solution?
Don't waste my time.
Mein Fuehrer,
We
We would like to equip
ambulances with CT scanners.
How much will this cost?
Millions?
How many millions?
We don't have that many Deutschmarks
--and by Deutschmarks, I meant Euros--
thanks to the economy.
So expensive!
And t-PA isn't even that good!
The studies are mediocre at best!
Sir, the neurologists say--
Most of them are in the pocket of Genentech!
But the studies--
Have shown much better results than
seen in actual practice.
A million-Euro ambulance
for a 10,000 Euro drug
that doesn't do what it promises.
You might as well
use it for trauma too,
so we can waste resources
and look like French physicians
and kill a princess.
I can think of so many better ways
to spend that kind of money!
Food! Blood pressure control!
Diabetes control!
Safer Autobahn driving!
And when the Americans copy us
they will use these ambulances
to drive insurance billing
to the mother hospitals.
What a waste.
You are so certain this t-PA works.
It is more faith
than science.
Everyone who still believes
in this silly crusade
should probably leave the room now.