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From: T Wake on 13 Nov 2006 14:15 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:jmdhl2967c84fs83not1vse29e3ad1riuq(a)4ax.com... > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:49:51 -0600, unsettled > <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > >>We have a local physician who makes scheduled house >>calls every Thursday. His office is used by a >>visiting podiatrist that day. > > --- > Sounds like something may be afoot over there. > :-)
From: T Wake on 13 Nov 2006 14:16 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ej9ipj$8ss_001(a)s785.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <9offl211jg34dcjnvbklqkeetfaa686dq1(a)4ax.com>, > Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >>On Sun, 12 Nov 06 14:00:10 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>In article <455638E2.B76D8B7A(a)hotmail.com>, >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>I'm wondering if BAH thinks we have our treatment 'rationed'. >>> >>>Would you know if that happened? Since you can't "shop around" >>>and compare, you cannot find out if your treatment is rationed, >>>especially its efficacy. >> >>All health systems of whatever sort are limited by cost. An >>insurance-based scheme will give up long before the NHS, however. > > That is one of the reasons an NHS doesn't work well. Really? It works better than an insurance based one. > It takes > a long time to figure out that something isn't working and then > decades to adjust policies that will fix it. Incorrect. Try again. > Meanwhile the > original problem has been replaced with new problems. None > ever get fixed because the lag time is so long. Nope.
From: unsettled on 13 Nov 2006 14:18 John Fields wrote: > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:49:51 -0600, unsettled > <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > > >>We have a local physician who makes scheduled house >>calls every Thursday. His office is used by a >>visiting podiatrist that day. > > > --- > Sounds like something may be afoot over there. My community has ~32% age 65 or over. The local hospital ER has 8 hours of non-emergency walk in clinic 7 days a week at the ER. Services are reasonable considering, but if the case is difficult enough to require a specialist then a 90 mile trip to the big (teaching) hospital is required. The entire county has a population less than 14,000. Rural communities have advantages and disadvantages. I moved here to not see my nearest neighbors. Still we visit on some level or another ~monthly, which is more than I experienced with most of my immediate neighbors in suburbia.
From: T Wake on 13 Nov 2006 14:22 "Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:e1gfl2140rnljlc08d0vedogsv0b8eaqoi(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:05:34 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> > wrote: >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> In the US, we have to be our own experts. >> >>Recently heard at the Mayo clinic, "The patient is his own >>best advocate." I have no doubt that's true everywhere. > > Indeed. I try to work on the basis that the doctor gives me a > diagnosis and makes recommendations, but the final decision about > treatment is mine. Yes, advocate is different from expert. Patients have to make an informed decision about their treatment but they are informed by an expert. (hopefully)
From: Michael A. Terrell on 13 Nov 2006 14:23
John Fields wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:23:23 +0000, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > > > >> "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message > >> news:c8u9l2p15huilmdlqg8okct65cdt6ap5hm(a)4ax.com... > >> > > >> >Not that we're > >> > lily-white, but we don't exactly go around skewering babies for > >> > snacks either. > >> > >> How's that for damnation by faint praise? How far we've fallen from our > >> high ideals--from "Give me liberty or give me death!" and "E pluribus unum" > >> to "At least we don't skewer babies for snacks!" > > > >Fields has warranted a nickname. > > > >Impaler ! > > > >Graham > > --- > No doubt that came to mind because of your often finding yourself > dangling from the end of my lance. > > -- > JF John, How could you pass up a line like, "I DID NOT IMPALE THAT DONKEY, HE SKEWERED HIMSELF!" ;-) -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |