Health Care Reform Proposal

As many of you readers already know, my husband, Dr. Warren Stinson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy fell a week ago today. He tripped over a laundry basket, broke several ribs and perforated his one good lung. He only has 1 1/2 lungs as a result of cancer surgery in 1984.

Thelma, our son Patrick's girl friend, took this shot of Warren reading his chest film while awaiting the arrival of his Dr. in the emergency room. I captioned it and put it on my Flickr page.

Subsequently, our friend, Dr. David Clough, wrote a new and better caption. I had to share it with you.



I had written that in my proposal all patients would be required to read their own chest films. If the patient could not identify their problem, then the hospital would be under no obligation to treat it!

Dave wrote: Watch for the press release when the Obama administration announces that all Radiologists are now obsolete. As part of the cost-cutting, new wave of patient-centric health care, all patients will now be responsible for interpreting their own x-rays. Patients who are ambulatory will be required to take their own x-ray films to a 24 hour photo shop for developing. To answer this new, pressing need, Nancy Pelosi's husband (a real estate baron in California) has been granted an exclusive license to install coin operated x-ray film processing machines on each hospital floor.

Those Radiology docs who read x-rays should drop their dictaphones and stroll over to the nearest unemployment office for their first check.

David A. Clough, M.D.
President
Lakeside Orthopedics, P.C.

Sorry Warren! We continue to have fun at your expense. Warren's response was "Stop it, it only hurts when I laugh!"