The Medical System

Have you ever heard what professional doctors have to say about other hospital staff?  If not I encourage you to believe that its((Grammar win!)) all positive and that there is a lot of solid feedback and good natured banter that improves conditions in workplaces like the hospital.  If, on the other hand, you have four fingers you know the truth.

A lot of people these days need things like hip replacement surgery performed((I hate it when there is no element of drama or theater in my surgery.))  and are running into a problem.  Just because the doctor can't "confirm with hard evidence*" that there is actually a problem the procedure would cure insurance companies won't pony up the dough for it.  So this leads us into a new age of medical ethical questions.

Can doctors, with a good baseball swing or an alright golf swing, break people's hips so that the damage is apparent enough to allow the hip replacement to commence?  Obviously the answer is yes, so long as by "doctor" you read "goddamn good for nothing ex who won't stop calling and stalking me on my way to work."    Though if the hip break is too severe for your patient-in-waiting there are of course alternatives, like seeing another doctor.((You know, maybe this one won't turn into that crazy ex.  Maybe this time they won't cheat on you.  Maybe this time it will be good.))

But a great way for hospitals to make more money is to encourage people with a bad diagnosis to seek a second, third, fourth, or even eleventh opinion.  After all, doctors are people too, so they're prone to screwing you around and making you wait in other lines when they're having a bad day.  Not only that, but hospital waiting and triage rooms are comfortable and fun to spend time in.

If in your travels you seem to be having some hip or back pain please keep it to yourself and suffer.  That way people with serious medical problems, like wanting to know if its alright that their child skinned their knee, can get the medical treatment and attention they deserve.

*Three X-Ray/Cat Scan MRI images that each individually and when taken together holistically indicate, without contradiction that the person in question does indeed not possess a hip.