Stents and smoking
Poland boasts having a relatively up-to-date and well functioning emergency cardiology system. Thousand of lives have been saved by performing coronary angioplasty and direct stenting in acute coronary incidents but surprisingly smoking cessation is not seen as a priority. I see that patients who have been successfully treated are not followed up - they either keep on smoking or return to smoking because they "feel well again".
Well, this is obviously not cost-effective but the Polish healthcare system is infamous for being wasteful and badly managed.
