Greek socialized medicine to the rescue of--- Me.

On Sep 25, 12:37*am, Jigsaw1695 wrote:
On Sep 24, 3:09*pm, "Mr Q. Z. Diablo"





t wrote:
On 2010-09-24, Earl Evleth unwisely decided to post the following to Usenet:

About a week ago I was sitting at breakfast in a Greek hotel when suddenly,
an provoked mother of all nose bleeds got me. It was steady and when I
blocked my nostril the blood starting pouring out of the other one and out
of my mouth. *Fortunately I remembered to pinch my nose, the hotel had a
taxi take me to the local emergency room. I walked in still bleeding an
covered with it in shirt. *I did not sit down, the nurses saw me and dragged
me into a room, stuffed something my nose and taped it into place. *I was
cleaned up and left.

Charge?? None. Cost to me was for the taxi trip and and from the clinic.
About $10 total.

Socialized medicine once again. *No charge, no wait.

I bled all over the hotel, but the house dog cleaned that up.

Eeeeew!

This was my first experience with emergency room care.

I've had lots, all due to cuts, scrapes and broken bones. *Generally, I've faced
no wait due to having come off a bicycle at speed and they triage me to the top.
There's a hint for the young pups - if you have a bicycle accident and end up in
A&E, claim to have come off at over 40km/h and they'll see to you pronto.

Biggest wait was on a Friday night where there were no other patients and the
doctor had buggered off for some dinner. *I'd been patched up by some paramedics
and decided to bugger off home for some sleep before being stitched up at the
local free clinic first thing in the morning.

"Socialised medicine" - I ****ING LOVE IT.

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On Sep 25, 8:26 am, "Mr Q. Z. Diablo"
t The Tananian dwarf
born there out of incest wrote:

I'm in the top 1% of income earners in this country and I openly advocate my
being taxed ....more .

Hmmm. "Top 1% icome earners" from there downunder?.

Yet the little Tasmanian runt claimed irecently n another thread he
has accepted the fact he will never be able to afford to retire and
stop working.

Hmmmm.....

Somebody tell me WTF????