[davidw]

No one writes headlines like "man undergoes surgery, everything ok" unless it's someone really famous. So yeah, you get headlines about malpractice, but I found the remark to be kind of cheap snark.

Italy's health care system is actually pretty decent. Source living in Italy many years.

[duiker101]

No of course not, but that doesn't mean that the news should milk everything that goes bad, which creates a distorted perspective.