The health care system in America is, as we often hear, in crisis.

Costs are rising; decisions are made by insurance companies rather than medical doctors.

We all have our complaints. But here is a year-end reminder that, despite all its faults and problems, medicine in the advanced countries produces daily, life-changing miracles.

Fixing the large problem of medical care is a matter of complicated, multi-page, somewhat abstract proposals put out by senators and presidential candidates, but getting cared for is a matter of individual patients and individual doctors, and the experience can be highly satisfactory.

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