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« on: January 22, 2010, 09:21:42 am » |
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Dear Sirs:
"During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with an expensive shiny gold tooth, multiple elaborate expensive tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone... Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture ~ a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow. Don't you agree?
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson , MS
****Verifed as true by snopes
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"I'm like lunch meat.....always ready" - Eric Barnes
Took Savoy to the swamp and he promtly got his v-card punched.
He's out. And you're out. And i don't think I'm in either.
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HogzgoneWild
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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2010, 09:35:46 pm » |
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matt_aggie04
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 07:41:42 am » |
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My wife is a nurse in an ER and had a patient recently that was a two year old girld with a high fever. When she asked the underage mother and grandmother if they had given motrin or tylenol they went on to explain how they could not afford it. They were dressed in nice clothes with expensive Nike shoes and each left several times to smoke. They continually asked for diapers when she had not done anything in the one the child was wearing, they just wanted free diapers and kept asking for samples of tylenol etc. It is disturbing what some people do or don't do when it comes to their kids health. And there is a story like this told several times a week at my house...
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« Last Edit: January 27, 2010, 08:28:57 am by matt_aggie04 »
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"I hate rude behavior in a man, I won't tolerate it"~Woodrow F. Call
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."~Thomas Jefferson
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cward
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 01:57:05 pm » |
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I think everyone who use's any Gov. aid should have to pass a drug test! I bet that would stop alot of cost right there!!
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