February 28, 2008
the situation is
that the doc don’t know the situation, never mind the insurance and then the clinic where you pay cos the printer in the hospital ain’t working so they don’t give appointments but at the clinic it takes so long you get to snooze in expensive couches… all for the purpose of delivering this to the docs postbox or to reason what those hangy jowl things are or that explosion between the eye sockets, while a bit of photoshop can change the whole dynamic of a jolly roger afternoon… moral? no docs please!
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Alek, I was hoping that you would post this image (and intended to urge it on you). Much as I regret the loss of my own parallel photographic memento mori, I find consolation in gazing on yours.
As to “the situation” . . . well, what the docs don’t know is so often what hurts us. I’m with you.
“I find consolation in gazing on yours . . . ”
Oh, trust me: I’m not deaf to the implications. Gets back to an observation I quoted in personal correspondence. A recollection from the days when I worked for a research institute in Madison, Wisconsin, where I exercised nominal supervision over a group of ‘kids’ (maybe five years younger than me) whose friends sometimes stopped by the basement mail room to visit. One day I was sitting in the mail room with ‘the kids’ when one of the friends walked in and relayed the news that Anwar Sadat had been assassinated. There was a quiet pause, then another quiet pause, and then another of the visiting friends said:
“Well . . . better him than me.”
If I had a dollar for every X-ray I’ve had I’d probably have enough for another old second hand camera!
Every 4 years company medical, every 3 years Seamans medical, every visa application another medical (26 country’s in 7 years)……
I probably glow in the dark with all the X-ray’s I’ve had.
I’m not sure if one of these exists of my head…must do somewhere! Of course we will need updating that the mid skull glow has gone.
Yea there is much docs don’t know but when it hurts throw all you can at it I say.