YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Defense Department has extended a pilot program to help its civilian employees in Japan find health care, but their family members are still not permitted to take ...
In Japan, patients receive treatment right away — today if it’s an emergency or in the next couple weeks if it’s urgent. A month maximum. Unlike Canada, no one has to wait six months just to see a ...
“A year!” exclaimed Dr. Yoshifumi Ikeda, medical director of a university hospital in Tokyo after we described the surgical wait times Canadian patients often face. The doctor was so shocked he ...