TheBanyanTree: Life Savers

[Spoonoid at cs.com]

Spoonoids:

       Reading Jim Miller's drama got me to thinking about my own visits to 
the hospital.

       Back in the days when I was a young buck I was proud of myself for 
being healthy and never needing to go to the doctor. Of course I had to put up 
with the annual physical, or every three years physical, or however the schedule 
worked out, but always felt it was really a waste of time and money. So if I 
had lived in the middle ages, when there was no significant medical industry, 
I would have been just as healthy then as I am.

       Now I'm an old fart and I realize that if it weren't for the medical 
profession as it currently exists, I would now be either dead or serioulsy ill 
and on the way out. Do all you other Banyans feel the same way about medicine 
today? Put up your hand if you feel like today you owe your life to the 
doctors. (No salesman will call.)

Later, John.