Re: American healthcare can't be trusted!
- From: erimess
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:45:40 -0500
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:18:40 +0100, Pibbur
<oopsREM.OVE512@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had a dream last night:
I was in a city south east of Chicago, I was going to spend the night
there, before going to Chicago the next day, to fly back to Norway. For
some reason Chicago was relatively close to Amsterdam, but that's beside
the point.
I was sitting at the canteen of the local hospital, talking to one of the
doctors. I convinced him that I was a doctor despite my long hair and
beard by asking him 3 anatomy questions for which he didn't know the
answer, but I did. Unfortunately, I answered one of my own questions:
"Where are Luschka's joints (articulations, not cigarettes!!!!)?"
incorrectly - but he didn't detect that. Then I told him how a disease,
don't remember which, was treated 20 years ago. That was enough to
convince him. He immediately introduced me to another doctor, who told me
that if I wanted, he could hire me as a surgeon, and I could start
opereating that night. They didn't want to see any papers, and they
didn't ask if I had any experience in surgery. I politely declined, as I
was going back to Norway the next morning. Besides - but I didn't tell
them that - I didn't want the job because 1) I'm not a specialist in
surgery, and 2) surgery is not fun (well, in general being a doctor is not
fun. :-( ).
But my main point here is: Offering me that job without proof of my
qualifications was very irresponsible! No wonder there are so many
malpractice lawsuits over there.
Hah!
Oh! Lushka's joints are a set of small joints between the cervical
vertebrae. Another useless and so on.
Yeah, you gotta watch us around here. We always hire doctors that
way. :-)
And Chicago *is* close to Amsterdam. Didn't you know that? (Well,
why not -- we have a lot of cities that are European cities. There's
a London, Ohio. And a Lima, Ohio just north of here. Though they
pronounce it lime-uh instead of lee-muh.)
Speaking of pronouncing things wrong. There's also a Belfontaine,
Ohio. Only it's pronounced Bell-fountain. Which drives me nuts.
Just because people can't pronounce French doesn't mean that a "fon"
should turn into a "foun." There's no u in there. They could at
least do something logical like "fone" like it's a long o. No, they
have to make up a u that doesn't exist.
We seem to like to butcher French. Like petit fours is "petty" fours.
Cause we don't use petit to mean small, we only have petite (which we
do pronounce correctly), so I don't think anyone knows what to do with
the e on the end missing. Granted, some people do that one correctly.
--
Erimess Dragon
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but rather to the best you can do.
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