November 27, 2013

Last day of clinic before the holiday!

Hope it's a good one.

(I'm on call tonight, but not tomorrow, which is something to be thankful for...)

to all the Loungers!...

November 23, 2013

Saturday, November 23rd. The Weekend Edition of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

"Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!"

Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1, Lines 256-258.

November 23, 2013

I paid my star membership! Get rid of these ADS!!!

(unless they are 'hot mature women seek...')

Tip to my Lounge friends: Never drink and post...

November 23, 2013

Going over some quotes with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.

Oh, and booze. We're drinking booze ...

November 16, 2013

Saturday, November 16th. The Weekend Edition of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

"This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands."

Richard II, Act II, Scene 1, Lines 46-49.

November 14, 2013

Cross-post from GD: "If only those homeless people would work as hard as I do!"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024030282#post19

I should have known there would be comments like that...

November 14, 2013

7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless - Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_20720_7-things-no-one-tells-you-about-being-homeless.html

I can attest to the truth of what the author writes. Many of my patients are represented by all seven criteria.

Cracked is a humor website. But this article is the plain cold truth, and reminds me of a line from Lord Byron's Don Juan: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep."

November 11, 2013

How can I access my very first posts here?

I didn't start bookmarking posts until 2 or 3 years after joining.

Thanks.

November 9, 2013

Friday night drinks & dinner with Will Shakespeare.

Ask us anything.

November 6, 2013

Our security guard was in the lunchroom the other day, bad-mouthing the Canadian health care system.

We need some security, since the clinic is in a bad part of town.

And I know a lot of right-wingers gravitate to the security industry. This guy is nice enough, but he's a John Wayne worshiper. ( )

And he is so in the wrong place to be coming down on national health insurance.

It was the usual bullshit: "Canadians are dying of cancer because they can't get to an oncologist in time to be treated" - shit like that.

I didn't say anything to him, although I fancy I'm better qualified to determine better than he how efficacious a broad-based system of affordable health care can be. I just don't know what to say to people whose outlook is: "Well, the solution isn't perfect, so let's just not bother trying to solve the problem..."