Here's a short video of Allison's brilliant plan to get moved up on the hip replacement list. Recorded in -----2007----
I find these TED talks very interesting, they cover a wide variety of subjects , tech, science, the mind, architecture, music, medicine etc.
5 minutes to 36 minutes long. Mike
Here, in Phoenix, it took me three months to get my hip replacement, because I needed...
(1) A full physical exam (2) Full cardio testing (I'd had a heart attack in 1998) (3) And I "banked" my own blood.
Could have been done sooner, but I took my merry time scheduling that stuff around my project work ;-)
Then I harassed them to release me a day early... I was going stir crazy in the hospital... and the food was so bad I lost 10 pounds in three days ;-)
And I was out and about in less than a week, though I must admit, it takes about a _year_ before your leg muscles "feel right".
Now, almost two years after, I climb and trim my own trees ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Good for you Jim, always amazes me what the body can go through and have a good outcome. I thought the interesting part of the video is, it was recorded in 2007 before this latest healthcare debate and it shows the wait time that Canadians go through to get attention. And this was not even the point of the presentation. Mike
For those who cannot be bothered to watch her cloying presentation, here's the gist of it: a Canadian girl needs a hip replacement so she volunteers at a hospital gift-shop where, by virtue of her skills in self-promotion, gets noticed by the right people and manages to jump to the front of a 2-year waiting list for the free publicly-funded surgery. Good for her! The message that both Canadians and Americans (who are not P.R. professionals) should actually take from this is that socialized medicine must not exclude private user-paid heathcare.
Actually, Canada already has a so-called 2-tier healthcare system. The average Joe suffers a little (and possibly dies a little early) in return for free heathcare. Those who can afford it access the private system south of the border. Works well enough.
-- Joe
Proof that it was all water and lard, and very likely has all returned or will very soon.
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