In the past two months, I have spent many hours accompanying a loved one to hospital emergency rooms -- all of them privately operated. The rap on what is sometimes called socialized medicine is that if the government ran the system, the wait would be interminable. Well, I am here to tell you that even when the government does not run the system, the wait can be interminable.
"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Quote of the day
Yeah, a lot of us could have told him this:
Alas, I have known people who were quite sick who chose to go home where they could at least lie down rather than sit in a waiting room chair waiting for medical care.
ReplyDeleteYet, there are so many who claim our medical system is not broken.
Carolyn L.