these individual problems are heart rending and important. but I dont think we'll fiond beaurocrartic incomptence limited to Americans, english, rrench , etc.
Incompetence I can see -- they lost the skull fragment or dropped her off the schedule or something. This is different from that.
And there actually is a ton of evidence that our system is broken. My Unbossed colleague, em dash, has writes a lot on the subject. Here's a sample:
Code Blue! Stat!
The Healthcare Crisis and Homeland Security
And my favorite:
Give the Gift of Love: Buy Grandpa a Pill Splitter for Father's Day!
She's got a lot of good posts in there and they're loaded with statistics, studies, and links. Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes