Sunday, April 20, 2014

the "best" in the world

I keep thinking of the Repuglican J. Boehner (however he spells it) saying that  the citizens of the USA have the "best" medical care in the world.

Yesterday, my mother told me that she and my father (who is 89 years old) routinely wait
three or more hours to see a doctor.

She said my father gets so tired, that after waiting so long, he just wants to go home.

So, she will have to talk to someone, and complain.

Well, does it really take years of medical school training to figure out that an elderly,
frail patient shouldn't be made to wait for three or more hours?

What about simple decency, courtesy, respect?

Those things are in short supply in the world's so-called only remaining "super" power.

Sigh.

Patients are people?  They seem to be treated as inanimate inputs to production.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

doggerel returns

On Cars

Riding in the back, 
I feel kidnapped;
In front,
uncomfortable and cramped.
Driving wrecks my nerves,
and deadens my senses.

Glass and steel,
Ice AC:
An adolescent fantasy of manhood.

I hate cars.