Sonya's Dead End

Health & Unhappiness

And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

John Dyer, Toast: Here's a Health to the King 1714


RxBefore You do the Walk ... Do the Math!:  Congress cares about giving us a prescription drug benefit ... as long as they don't have to actually pass a bill that enables it.

 

 

patientForget oysters and powdered rhino horn*:  Science has come up [if you'll excuse the expression] with a new answer to every man's fantasy.

 

 

RXWhatever Happened to ... What Whazit?*:   Oh, right, that old issue.  It's 'healthcare', stupid!


 

nurseTake Two Aspirin ... Loosen the Thumb Screws*: The only problem with a surgical experience is that it must be performed in a hospital.

 

spider
A Moving Experience*:
  Unexpected ramifications of moving into a new home.


 

ambulanceThe Thigh Bone's Connected to the Hangnail*:  It's 'the greatest health system in the world' ... for the elected officials whose insurance coverage actually allows them to take advantage of it.


 

cigarette buttLight Up My Life ... Please!*:  Being environmentally, socially and healthfully correct ranks right up there with the wearing of hair shirts and other sadistic rites.

 

 

beheaded ladyOff With Their Heads!*:  A nifty curtailment of ill-advised attempts to cure patients of anything that ails them.

 

*Originally published in the OTHER paper, Eugene, Oregon


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