The Healthcare System in Cuba
How a Tiny Island Defies U.S. Sanctions to Lead in Healthcare In the heart of the Cuban capital, the Dr. Cosme Ordoñez Carceller Teaching Polyclinic stands as a testament to…
Cuban Medical Care
The US Blockade and Its Effects on Cuban Medicine
The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.1 It is innovative, preventative, people-oriented, comprehensive, community-centered, internationalist, and, of course, de-commodified—treating healthcare as a…
Cuba’s contributions in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
'They have discovered smart weapons. We have discovered something more important: people think and feel.' …
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution by Don Fitz
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution by Don Fitz Monthly Review Press, 2020 ISBN: 978-158367-860-2 (paper) --Reviewed by Kim Scipes Don Fitz has written a fascinating account of the…
How Do Medical Students Get More Experience in the US than Cuba?
During the last 10 years I have written multiple articles documenting how Cuba has better medical practice and education than the US. To be honest, I have known for a…
Review of ‘Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution’ by Don Fitz
Don Fitz’s new book Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution was going to press at Monthly Review in early spring, as the pandemic was ramping up, so he had just…
What Can We Learn from Cuba? Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point
As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All…
How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
Beginning in December 1951, Ernesto “Che” Guevara took a nine-month break from medical school to travel by motorcycle through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. One of his goals was…
Cuba’s First Military Doctors (Part 2)
[The first part 1 of this article addressed the need for Cuba's participation in conflicts in Zaire, the Congo and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s to remain concealed for over three…
Daily Life In Cuba
The biggest problem for families in Cuba these days is the financial difficulties caused by the United States blockade. It has not been removed even though diplomatic relations were established…
Cuba Has A Higher Life Expectancy Than The U.S- Why?
So frequently is the word 'freedom' employed in the political vernacular, it has come to mean whatever the listener desires. For Mr. Trump, it is one word in the…
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