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Generally yes and often quite successfully. A self-trained civil engineer (8th grade education) started modern medical clinics, health care insurance, and Health Maintenance Organizations to get his Grand Coulee Dam construction finished on time (KaiserPermanente hospitals & HMO.) A 1930’s hobo started what became the world’s second largest advertising agency, Young & Rubicam. An attorney Herb Kelleher grew Southwest Airlines. Elon Musk came out of PayPal rather than automaking or commercial space flights. Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell were undergraduate students in college. One of the great Hollywood movie studios was started by a glove maker. One of the biggest media conglomerates was put together by a guy operating his father-in-law’s small hearse rental business in Manhattan. IBM was started by a U.S. Census employee, Herman Hollerith. Curtiss-Wright aircraft manufacturing was started by a pair of bicycle mechanics in a small city in the Midwest while Boeing was started by a lumberman. General Motors’ glory years was under a guy who’d been running a small ball-bearings mfg. factory in Detroit before he became CEO a minority shareholder when GM went bankrupt (he stayed for 40+ years.) Ray Kroc had no background in franchising or the restaurant business when he took over McDonalds and grew it from 6 to 6,000+.

This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.Do Israeli hospitals ever care for injured terrorists?A2AIsraeli Hospital Treats Terrorists and Victims AlikeOn one floor a young Palestinian terrorist is treated. On another, staff care for a victim of a terror attack. Despite this surreal situation at Hadassah Hospital and other Israeli medical centers, the doctors would not have it any other way.Soldiers guard a suspected terrorist being treated at Hadassah. All photos by Emil Salman.Two female Israel Defense Forces soldiers are sprawled out in the corner, snacking on potato chips, sending messages from their mobile phones, looking bored. In front of them, lying in the hospital bed, eyes closed, her dark curly hair matted, a small unopened prayer book propped up on her chest, is a woman just about their age.She is not, however, a friend. Rather, Amal Jamal Takatka is someone accused of stabbing an Israeli hitchhiker in the neck with a small steak knife on December 1 at the Gush Etzion junction – a 22-year-old suspected terrorist whom these 19-year-old soldiers have been sent to guard.A few elevator stops below, in the ground-floor intensive care unit at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, Canadian-born Chaim Rothman is also lying in a bed. His eye is bandaged, his skin is pale, and he is shaking. He is not expected to be released anytime soon.The 54-year-old father of 11 has been in a medically induced coma ever since he was brought in on November 18, gravely wounded by terrorists who hit him on the head with a meat cleaver while attacking his synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood. Four other people praying alongside Rothman were killed that morning, as was a Druze policeman who came to their aid.Rothman’s wife, Risa, 48, sits outside his room, as she has done every day, all day long, since that morning. She knows a suspected terrorist in another case is being treated in a room not too far away, just as she knows other terrorists have come and gone through these halls, and will come and go again. But, she says, she “disconnects.”“Why go there?” she asks, fiddling with her hands. “I hear the chatter. All the talk about, ‘this shows how humane we are,’ but I don’t engage. I am not going to put energy into anything I can’t change.”The commitment of Israeli hospitals to treating perpetrators of terror, says Charles Sprung, director of the general intensive care unit at Hadassah in Ein Karem, and head of the hospital’s Institute of Medicine, Ethics and Law – is indeed one of those things that cannot be changed. Nor, he stresses, should it be.He references the Hippocratic Oath, under which he, like all physicians, is bound to act “for the benefit of the sick according to ability and judgment,” and to keep patients from “harm and injustice.” Sprung, a religious man, also cites the Oath of Maimonides, the famed 12th-century Jewish physician, which obligates doctors to “never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.” Sprung shrugs. That is all there is to it, really.A counter argument could be made, and sometimes is, that the Geneva Conventions ־ which provide guidelines for the medical treatment of enemies and prisoners of war – do not extend to “terrorists,” as these are defined as “unlawful combatants or unprivileged belligerents” who themselves, so goes the logic, do not follow the laws of war.“Is it incumbent upon individuals in a nation whose very existence is constantly being threatened to act compassionately toward those who set out to destroy them?” asks Avi Rivkind, head of Hadassah’s Division of Emergency Medicine and Trauma, in an oft-quoted 2009 paper co-authored with colleagues from the IDF and Haifa's Rambam Medical Center in the American Journal of Bioethics (“Medical Care for Terrorists – To Treat or Not to Treat” by Gesundheit, Ash, Blazer and Rivkind). “Should hospitals expend limited public health care resources on a terrorist, thereby perhaps depriving other patients of medical care?” the authors wonder.The answer, they conclude, is clearly “yes.”“It’s not that we applaud what such terrorists do,” explains Rivkind, who has spent 30 years at Hadassah, a hospital which, due to its location and the fact that it runs a sophisticated trauma unit, says it has over the years treated more terror victims – and terrorists – than any other medical institution in the country.“Quite the opposite. They take human lives whereas we try to save them. There is a big discrepancy between us and no bridge" between terrorists and physicians, he says. “But we have our obligations under the Hippocratic Oath. So, at the end of the day, there is really no question.”Even national security or political concerns – such as the possibility of future exchanges of prisoners which could allow a cured patient to resume terrorist activities – should not in any way “be seen as relevant to the medical treatment rendered,” stresses Rivkind.In equal measure, adds Sprung, benefits that might be gained by treating a terrorist – such as the possibility that, once saved, he or she might provide valuable information under interrogation – also do not guide the care that is given.“We just focus on our jobs,” they both agree.And so injured terrorists are wheeled into Israeli hospitals, sometimes right alongside the victims, and are cared for, year after year. The resulting interactions – even at a hospital like Hadassah that is used to the daily mixing of doctors, staff and patients of all kinds, from Orthodox Jews to right-wing settlers to pious Muslims and Christians – can be surreal.There was the time the father of a suicide bomber, who suffered heart failure the day after his son perpetrated an attack, was treated on the same ward at Hadassah as one of his son’s victims. There was the Palestinian doctor who found himself caring for his next-door neighbor – who, it turned out, had just committed a terror attack. And the settler-nurse asked to care for a terrorist who had killed her neighbor (she was granted permission to pass her duties onto a fellow nurse).Finally, Rivkind recalls, there is the famous tale of the mother of one terrorist – Samer Kawasbeh – who knitted tablecloths as farewell gifts to her son’s Jewish doctors when he was discharged and headed off to prison. “It was,” Rivkind notes, “a beautiful tablecloth.”The IDF and the Israel Police typically pick up the tab for the medical care of suspected terrorists. In some cases, the hospital itself does. For example, in the case of Kawasbeh, a Hamas member who stormed the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002, taking monks hostage – his months of treatment, for septic shock brought on by an untreated gunshot wound, cost $350,000.“I have got to believe that the terrorists appreciate what we do for them. And I do think they are often surprised by our humanity,” says Rivkind. “I would not be surprised if many changed their stripes and decided not to partake in terror anymore.” Even if they don’t, he half jokes, “their mothers might stand in their way next time.”Sprung is not so sure. “We took care of a terrorist here many years ago who was later freed in a prisoner exchange. He gave an interview in which he was asked how he was treated in the Israeli hospital and he said he greatly appreciated it, and imagined he could not have received better treatment anywhere the Arab world,” the doctor relates. “Asked afterward if he intended to leave his terror ways behind, he said: ‘No. One thing has nothing to do with the other.’”“I actually think we sometimes overcompensate, and go above and beyond when it comes to treating terrorists,” Alon Pikarsky, acting head of surgery at Hadassah, says thoughtfully. “We have this desire to show ourselves, and show the world, that we are a light unto the nations.”A nurse in Pikarsky’s department, Hadas Sapir, recounts how Maher Hamdi Hashalamun – the terrorist who stabbed and killed 26-year-old Dalia Lemkus as she waited for a lift home on November 10 near the settlement of Alon Shvut southwest of Jerusalem – was brought to Hadassah after being shot by a security guard. He soon began complaining about the service and never thanked any of the staff, she says.“One of the nurses who was taking care of him sat down outside his room at one point and just cried,” Sapir says. “We are human beings, of course, and Israeli citizens.”When asked if he believed that doctors in, say, the Gaza Strip would act similarly when faced with an Israeli soldier brought into their hospital, Pikarsky answers immediately: “Without a doubt,” he says. “I am sure they would also honor their professional obligations.”One of the nurses nearby shakes her head. She is not convinced.Thirteen years ago, Dvir, a settler from Beit Hagai near Hebron, was wounded in a terror attack and hospitalized in Hadassah. He spent months here, and then years coming back for more and more operations – he stopped counting at 30, he says – to try and fix his shattered limbs.Today, hobbling on a cane at 26, Dvir, who asked that his last name not be used, still comes in once a week for physiotherapy, and sticks around to volunteer in the hospital’s heritage center, devoted to the history of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.“It’s just the way it is,” says Dvir, echoing Risa Rothman’s comment, when asked both about Israeli hospitals' treatment of perpetrators of terror, as well as of relatives of avowed enemies of the state – for example, the granddaughter of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and the sister of Hamas spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouk.“When I was a child, I would rage and ask why we were treating these people,” Dvir admits. “I hated the sight of them.” But, over time, that anger has subsided, and he has come to accept how things work at this home-away-from-home.“I grew up,” he says, “And I realized that rules are different in here. A hospital is not a battleground.”Danna Harman -Haaretz Correspondent Israeli hospital treats terrorists and victims alike [Emphases mine in accord with Question asked. J.B.]This article is on one hospital. The same is true for all of Israel’s hospitals.

In general, yes.Europeans have much more vacation time, permitting more frequent, longer distance or longer trips.Most European countries have 4 or more weeks (20 workweek days) of statutory holidays. That means that travel to other continents is feasible.There is no legal obligation to grant vacation in the USA; at most, two weeks are considered the maximum allowed.Only teenagers and university students in the USA, in good health with no pressing obligations, have the maturity, time and health to roam the world, ideally with wealthy-enough parents or having saved enough for travel.2. Europeans (except Anglophone Britons and Irish) are more linguistically and culturally adaptiveEuropeans, except for British or Irish, tend to be, by default, multi-lingual and confident at navigating around foreign countries from a young age.Scandinavians and Beneluxians of the current and previous generation have a higher percent of their populations who are “proficient in English”, in the case of the Netherlands more than even in the US. The Dutch have the nearest to native English speech, exposed to English-language media from birth and having a language that is the phonologically closest to English (West Frisian dialect).Even eastern Europeans have, for the current post-Berlin Wall generation, become remarkably competent in English - not in Russian or German!In 2016, working age British were the least likely of Europeans to “know” a foreign language. Despite indication that 35% of those “know” a foreign language, excluding non-UK born (1st generation, binational and 2nd generation Britons, I doubt that more than 2% are proficient in a foreign language, the most frequently chosen being French. However, I have never come across any (3rd generation plus Anglophone family i.e. whose grandparents or further ancestors were primarily English-speaking) Anglophone who speaks French to a “near native” level. I’ve only seen on Youtube one such person - Jodie Foster (but she attended the French Lycée of L.A. and moved to France as a teen to escape the media attention after the Hinckley attempt on Pr. Reagan’s life.)Most US-born Americans have only been educated in English and a foreign language chosen is usually Spanish but not pursued with the existential zeal found in Europeans who learn English as essential. Even 2nd generation Hispanic Americans usually do not pursue formal education in the Spanish language, so, even if they sound fluent as colloquial speech, they are often functionally illiterate in Spanish, unable to properly write or distinguish between slang and “proper” Spanish. Part of it is the uniquely American social phenomenon that “foreign” languages are “anti American” if used in the US!3. Europeans have accessible, affordable healthcare, not linked to employment.In Europe, youth, unemployed have access to healthcare, so there is no financial stress to get any job for healthcare. If they travel the world on a shoestring, if they have serious illness, they can return home for medical care with no undue charge or waiting period.Within the EU, urgent medical care is provided without charge to EU documented residents; that’s the main reason why Brexit has scared hundreds of thousands of British retirees to return to the UK!For visitors to the EU, a travel medical policy with coverage of €50k is considered “adequate” for a healthy traveler.In the USA, there is no universal, subsidized or largely accessible healthcare to the general population. In that respect, it has common policy with many sub-Saharan countries, southeast Asia and war-torn zones in the Middle East and central Asia; only in the case of less developed nations, it is a question of infrastructure and funds.Depending upon State, adults most often get medical coverage through employment. That means that there is great pressure to be employed, even if it is not pleasant or rewarding. Taking off around the world means that you either take the risk of serious financial burden if injured or ill, or have enough funds to pay for worldwide insurance.For visitors to the USA, travel medical policies should have at least $250000 coverage, more if concerned. In addition, pay attention if there are specific networks of doctors and hospitals with negotiated rates for your policy. A broken leg with weeks of hospitalization can easily end up costing well over US$100000!If an American develops serious illness or injury when traveling, he may be better off getting treatment there since, at equivalent quality, the overall cost would at most be 50% that in the USA (Canada, Switzerland or private healthcare in many countries), but only 30% in the public systems in Europe.4. They have logistically cheaper, faster and frequent opportunity and custom in Europe.Easily travelled distances via air travel from the USA and from the EU.Kansas and Zurich are population centers for USA and for the EU. Distances of 3000km (4 hours air travel), 6000km (7 hours travel) and 9000km (11 hours travel) shown in red (from Kansas City) and in blue (from Zurich)Europeans can within 3–4 hours or under 3000 km reachin Europe, 44 different countries including the EU (at least 27 national languages) + those of non-EU states (Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Georgian, Azeri) => 32+ languages.in the Mediterranean basin, 9 countries in north Africa and eastern Mediterranean (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon). => 2 languagesAmericans can reach within the same distance under 3000 km, on average:in the Americas 10 countries (Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Cuba, Bahamas and Jamaica), where there are 3 official or common languages altogether.For very long-haul, Europeans have much more variety of countries and cultures to reach as they can travel in under 11 hours tothe Americas: Canada, the Caribbean, San Francisco, Rio, Caracas or BogotaAsia: all countries of East and West Asia with Japan being just outside by half hour.Africa: the entire continent.Europe is more compact with smaller inter-city distances that can be covered quickly by high-speed trains. You can live within a hour or a few hours from a border with a neighbor of different culture, language and attitudes.In Europe, it is considered normative for school children to travel to other countries. Since English is now the default foreign language in this generation, travel is relatively easy in terms of communication.In the USA, a land of homogeneity of attitude born of living in a virtual linguistic island combined with high mobility, mass media and brainwashing of youth, you virtually have to fly to get to another very different culture (except from the southwest border regions).With the Atlantic Ocean separating it from Europe (7+ hours, 5+ time zone differential) and the Pacific Ocean from Asia (12+ hours, 8+ time zone differential), it is impractical for working age people to take extended vacations outside of the Americas. A full day of travel plus time to adapt to zone time means that at least 4 days out of 2 weeks’ vacation are taken up in travel-related activity.Only travel to Latin America is feasible (similar time zones). Flight under 8 hours from the population center of gravity of the US (Kansas City) would cover only Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and the northern half of South America.Iceland is the only European nation that is also reasonably feasible but the logistics are entirely dependent on Icelandair’s timetable since Wow Air has gone out of business and no other major airlines flies to Iceland.