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Medical Steps ?
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Thursday, April 8, 2021    Rated "G" by the Author.
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May you get a Gurney with four good wheels-After surgery that is.



Medical Steps ?

At first they called me The Insured with Medicare I had a plenty,
With a back up Lifetime guarantee from JC Penny,

The wife said I got it wrong, you don’t have a back up plan,
That thing from JC Penny was for the Ceiling Fan,

OK I mighta missed one, or got it wrong some how,
That fine print’s gittin smaller and harder for me now,

Any way I got accepted and now The Patient I will be,
Things are really looking up for everyone but me,

The doctor gets a new car and the hospital too, but,
First, the Gang in Washington has to get their cut,

Here I’m down upon my back, stacks of paperwork to sign,
Releasing all from fault and error, Should I turn out Frankenstein,

Oh it’s a small procedure, probably won’t cost a lot,
Just a mortgage on my house and anything else I’ve got,

I’m told as we get older it’s a trip we all must make,
But if someone wants my ticket, it’s here for you to take,

From The Insured , to The Patient and The Victim now my friend,
But the last steps got me worried, it’s called The Specimen !!

 

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 10, 2021
Not as funny as some of your others but certainly very ironic. What with annual medical checkups, all those doctors, and occasional "elective" surgery, "the golden years" seem to be more like painful, money grabbing, take your last dime while we keep you alive, years.

I do know about you, but I'm not sticking around to get caught up in all this Hippocratic oath to keep me alive forever in a petri dish.

Ron

Reviewed by Kalikiano Kalei
Reviewed on April 8, 2021
[Your last line, Tom, reminds me of that old Cape joke about the Italian astronaut...he was a real 'speciman', of course...but I'll spare you that needless grimace!] Your paean here is an amusing take on that journey all of us must embark upon, sooner or later, with some perhaps some a bit more often than udders (sic). And a Gurney is not, contrary to what them bovine experts might contend, in the same category as a Holstein or a Texas Longhorn! [I remain uncowed by that declamation but I certainly hope your Gurney drivers don't give you a bum steer, nevertheless!] Let's NOT, whatever we do when we read your tale, recall that memorable image from Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff', wherein the NASA Mercury-7 boys are mincing down the corridor at the Lovelace Clinic as fast as they can hygienically manage it, holding enema bags high and hoping they make it to the ceramic throne safely before Ma Nature springs a nasty surprise upon them! Enjoyed this one! Probably even better when the lyrics are accompanied by a git-box melody (for a female astronaut, would that be 'Air on a G-String', I wonder? :)))


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