So much for Toyota's job creation

Yeah, see, I bet that resulted/will result in an increase of "business". I would imagine it's fair to say many wealthy women with gynecologic cancers will be knocking on his door...

 

Well, it was in one of our Journals, the public never hears that. Also, in my experience, when a woman has some gyn cancer, she wants it out as soon as possible. Just send them to the nearest gyn onc.

Well, I'd love to chat more, but it's late and my wife has her naturalization exam tomorrow, I guess I'm more nervous than her, she's asleep.

 

If there's one thing I'm not going to regret in life, it's the chance of never having to meet ANY doctor...

:lol:

 

No prob. and good luck!

 

it's late, are you trying to get me started on preventive health care now

 

Hahahah, no...

I know the whole jazz, particularly since I've just entered my 30's... screen for high blood pressure, check cholesterol levels, yada, yada, yada... :lol:

Although it does seem to be a pain in the nice person to schedule an appointment with you guys... Most of the time I seem to get something like: on the third Sunday after the 4th blue moon during the winter solstice... miss that appointment, and you're screwed, better luck in ANTIOCH... :angry:

PLUS, I want to see if there's a doc. out there that will see me and keep NO record of me or my visit (even though I would imagine there's some sort of gov. reqirement?). Complete confidentiality is my number one priority. I would even consider travelling out ouf country, as the U.S. has become way too GESTAPO in this respect...

 

I'm sure there is a way, but you'd probably just need a lot of cash.

 

Go back about 1 or 2 pages in this thread. Mystery Squid and I had a long conversation about this subject. Truly, the "best" docs in this country devote their energy to research and the advancement of medical knowledge and are really not interested in finishing the game with the most money. The docs who make the most money are probably the ones who have "fooled" the rich of this country into thinking they have skills that no one else can offer them.

 

So who cares? Nothing is static, industry must be fluid and adapt to changing trends and even changing global priorities.

The Big Three were so successful at hiding from the Real World that the Real World caught up to them.

It’s like a co-worker I knew back in the early 90’s: not the brightest bulb on the tree but had a fancy, slick way of talking. Just like a used car salesman, now that I think of it.

He refused to look at employment trends, refused to update his skills, and refused to believe he could ever become obsolete. I should mention he had average – not great – skills with DEC VAX and S/400.

Obviously the employment trends in that field changed, and he should have clued in when he saw those systems being mothballed. Instead he proclaimed even louder that it was Business As Usual, and *he* didn’t have to change.

In 2002 I heard he *finally* was let go, kicking and screaming. Well, who cares? He did it to himself.

I find myself stuck in an endless cycle of training and upgrading, career development, attending symposia, etc. I also recognize that – at least in the field of Industrial Automation – all the action is in China and India. I don’t even bother with the North American market, stick a fork in it, it’s done.

 

Yes, that was *very* easy to Google.

Ironic (Both ha-ha and interesting) now that it has come full circle, that there a "problem."

 

The private "for profit" health care model appears to ignore Preventative Medicine: routine vaccinations, lifestyle counselling, etc. That appears SOP for any For Profit model, where long-term costs are ignored.

If the Private Health Care model is claimed to be the "best" then one should examine the Mortality and Morbidity reports that contrast the U.S. to European nations. Some contradictions there, especially with infant mortality.

 

Actually, thanks to advanced plastic surgery and hormones, that could be arranged.

 

:lol:

i have my doubts as to whether squid could handle that.

 

although jayman could, he definitely pisses and moans a lot.....

:lol:

 

Hmmm you have something to hide then?

I recommend travelling to Mexico, Cuba, or Thailand. Plenty of doctors there routinely accept cash patients, and ask no nosey or embarassing questions about bullet exit wounds, putrid discharges from a certain reproductive organ, or the sudden need to change appearance.

 

Probably because very slick and evil marketing execs have convinced most Americans to stop saving, to run up credit to the point of being upside down on every payment, and to generally run hog-wild until the bills come in.