"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The Poor Need Not Apply: The Cleveland Clinic, one of those outstanding hospitals listed in US News and World Report, refused to treat a woman in need of a liver transplant because she was an illegal immigrant, or maybe it was because she was poor. The hospital says that it was because she was an illegal, but this is the same hospital that gives special shirts to high-paying patients so they won’t have to wait in line with the rest of the world to have tests done. They finally agreed to treat the woman when local politicians and an immigration lawyer stepped in. It may be a fine hospital, but only if you can show them the money. posted by Sydney on
7/22/2002 05:34:00 AM
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