Saturday 14 July 2007

Doctor, Doctor...

Turns out that the NHS doctors who tried to rearrange the inside of Glasgow airport recently, failed in their attempt because they measured the size of the car wrongly.
After taking the size of the window they planned to drive the flaming car through, they then went and used a car which was wider.
Doesn't it fill you with confidence in our health service that these trained professionals, who make life and death decisions and were considered fit enough to be employed to work in our hospitals, cocked up because they had a shaky grasp of the use of a tape measure?
Dread to think of the scene if one of them had to administer a suppository.

6 comments:

Paula said...

LOL! And people wonder why I don't trust doctors.

O' Tim said...

It's that damn socialized medicine crap y'all have got. That is if you believe Gary B. Smith, managing partner of Exemplar Capital:

"A lot of people working in the medical profession have come from outside the country. This was before al Qaeda was targeting professionals. Almost 50 percent of the UK's medical personnel have come from other countries. I don't see how this can't be a breeding ground for terrorists.

From Fox News (where else?)

Falling on a bruise said...

Who would of thought that the metric system would be our best defence against terrorism, even if it means our doctors are operating on us on a "It looks far too big for your body but if i take a run up and ram it in hard enough.." approach to medicine.

Anonymous said...

You think suppositories would be a problem? Imagine the catheters. :-)

Anonymous said...

Ha! What about colonoscope? Holy crap!

"A lot of people working in the medical profession have come from outside the country. This was before al Qaeda was targeting professionals. Almost 50 percent of the UK's medical personnel have come from other countries. I don't see how this can't be a breeding ground for terrorists.

Funny, I seem to notice a lot of non-American medical professionals in my neck of the boondocks. Wonder if there's a plot. Little Dr. Shah is now a prime suspect.

Constance Kent said...

Damn, and I'm going under the knife in a few weeks myself. And just because it's not socialized doesn't mean it's any better over here...