So I was in this docs office earlier this week and he had a book of business cards sitting at the check-in window. I am assuming he was letting anyone and everyone leave a business card for their respective business to advertise. I take the book of cards and go sit down while I am waiting to go back and see this doc. I flipped through a few of the pages and then came to this one:
My initial reaction was, and I guess I've always felt this way, that missionaries who give out business cards are lame. It seems a bit too business like and impersonal. But what really made me laugh was his email address:
thecanadiannightmare@myldsmail.net. Nothing says conversion like the canadian nightmare! Toof Hunny.
7 comments:
My question, is how in the heck did you get his business card???? Did you kife it from the book in the doctor's office?
I'll tell you what a Canadian Nightmare is... it's its socialized medical care system:
"High Costs, Low Quality
A July 2004 study by the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, Paying, More, Getting Less, concluded that after years of government control, the Canadian medical system is badly injured and bleeding citizens' hard-earned tax dollars. The institute compared health care systems in the industrialized countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and found Canada currently spends the most, yet ranks among the lowest on such indicators as access to physicians, quality of medical equipment, and key health outcomes.
One of the major reasons for this discrepancy is that, unlike the countries in the study that outperformed Canada--Sweden, Japan, Australia, and France, for example--Canada outlaws most private health care.
If the Canadian government says it provides a particular medical service, it is illegal for a Canadian citizen to pay for and obtain that service privately. At the same time, the Canadian government bureaucracy rations medical services. According to another Fraser Institute survey, Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada (13th edition, October 2003), a Canadian health care patient, on average, must wait 17.7 weeks for hospital treatment. Those who live in Saskatchewan waited an average of 30 weeks, those in Ontario a relatively expeditious 14 weeks.
Dying in Queues
In 1999, Dr. Richard F. Davies, a cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, described in remarks for the Canadian Institute for Health Information how delays affected Ontario heart patients scheduled for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. In a single year, for this one operation, the doctor said, "71 Ontario patients died before surgery, 121 were removed from the list permanently because they had become medically unfit for surgery," and 44 left the province to have the surgery, many having gone to the United States for the operation. (According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, 33 Canadian hospitals performed approximately 22,500 bypass surgeries in 1998-99.)
In other words, 192 people either died or became too sick to have surgery before they could work their way to the front of the line.
In a May/June 2004 article in the journal Health Affairs, researcher Robert Blendon and colleagues described the results of a survey of hospital administrators in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, the United States, and Canada. Fifty percent of the Canadian hospital administrators said the average waiting time for a 65-year-old man requiring a routine hip replacement was more than six months. Not one American hospital administrator reported waiting periods that long. Eighty-six percent of American hospital administrators said the average waiting time was shorter than three weeks; only 3 percent of Canadian hospital administrators said their patients had this brief a wait.
Bare-Bones Health Care
Barring epidemics and other disasters, fewer than one out of 10 people in prosperous societies will face a major medical crisis in any one year. Those suffering people, however, are the ones who need help the most, and the aging of the baby boomers in the United States makes it likely more serious illnesses will afflict more Americans in the next couple of decades. The kind of minor health care services the Canadian system provides well are not what America's aging Baby Boomers will need most urgently in years to come.
America's health care system already includes too much Canadian-style bureaucratic delay and inefficiency. For example, the slow acceptance by Medicare and Medicaid of medical innovation, their exacting paperwork requirements, delayed and low payments of claims, and the threat of overzealous prosecution by health care bureaucrats are driving doctors out of business and giving patients fewer medical options.
Fixing those flaws would seem to be a much more promising prospect than a further move down the road Canada has followed to high costs and low quality of health care."
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
Sept 2004
Sorry for the long post :)
I have already sent this guy 137 emails. I hope he doesn't mind.
That business card is funny. Almost as funny as walking into Sacrament Meeting in your home ward, looking down at the table by the entrance and seeing your two best friends' pictures plastered on a Pass-Along Card, posing as the Perfect Couple that they actually are. Where do these people come from??? :)
Oh so funny. That comment by Jennifer, I am sill slapping my knee. As for the comment by Jac, I really hope she pasted it from some where, cause seriously I can't imagine writing a comment that long. Also, I really want you to answer Grammy vicki's question!
Did you snatch the card or what?
so i was watching the news tonight and they finally caught a guy named RANDY CURTIS gibby who has been on the run for like 10 years.. sure glad they showed his picture or i might have never talked to you again... hahah!!!
For those of you wanting to know how I got the card, I kifed it from the book. I actually showed the doc the card and he and laughed together. Then I stuck it in my pocket and left. I've got an appt set with my Bishop tomorrow.
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