The readiness to solve medical problems with death varies from place to place.

An astute observation from Anne Althouse in About that man in Germany who died from bacteria transmitted by a dog's lick.
She's pointing out that the actual story is different from what is being fore-fronted for the clicks.

If the German man had received amputations and continued full-strength antibiotics, would he not still be alive? The real story here seems to be not that a dog's lick could kill you — the attention-getting scare headline — but that the readiness to solve medical problems with death varies from place to place.