Diagnosis, prognosis and cure in
just six short paragraphs!!!
If you doubt any part
of what Dr. Jones says, go visit your local hospital emergency room as an
observer for an hour or so some Friday or Saturday night.
See how many
responsible people you can send this to!!!
Dr. Starner Jones. His short two-paragraph letter to the White House
accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health Care
Crisis". It's worth a quick read:
Dear Mr.
President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room
last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an
expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of
elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes
and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ring
tone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I
happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"!
During my examination of her, the patient
informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day
and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our
Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our
nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality
hospitals, doctors or nurses.
Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of
culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on
luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid,
purchase health insurance. It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that
"I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and
dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care
difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,
STARNER JONES,
MD
My thoughts exactly! Culture is a real problem. We need doctor's excepting chicken's again and we would have better medical care.
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