About That Health Thing

Take heart, no, I mean it. Get your heart transplant now if you think you're ever going to need one.

Because, as our messianic president has told us: It’s “another stone to the head of the American dream.”

No, but really? I thank God we all live in the same economy, with the same health care system. We can't go too far off the rails because nobody, Democrat or Republican, likes waiting rooms; especially if you're waiting for service like this:

Adding one more to the list of medical errors that end up making patients suffer, a mistake by doctors of West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St. Edmunds resulted in infertility of the patient following an operation in which the wrong testicle was removed.

Of course we'll have to adapt. If we ever get to true government-employee doctors, for instance, you'd be well advised to put smiley-faces on the body parts you don't want operated on, in addition to the "do not remove" admonition in magic marker.