Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Doctor's Orders

Starner Jones, MD
I am a seventh generation Mississippian and wanted to come back here after going somewhere else for college and medical school.. My extracurricular interests are golf, hunting, fishing and college football.

Dear Sirs:

"During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with an expensive shiny gold tooth, multiple elaborate expensive tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone.. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture - a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow. Don't you agree?

STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson, MS

1 comment:

R.A. said...

Freedom of choice. Isn't that what the libs want when it comes to murdering a baby who gets between a woman and "her reproductive rights"?

But we can't choose not to support these kind of fools by enabling their smoking, drinking, tattooing, piercing, no-educating ways?

Put another way, leftists honor freedom of choice to murder inconvenient babies, but not to drink/smoke/self-mutilate and live personally (not communally) with the consequences?

Diagnosis: insanity with possible moral/intellectual retardation.