The plumbers, who spent 8 manhours replacing the pipes inside my Oakwood
70, just left a few minutes ago....much richer, by the way.

One can never underestimate the value of plastic pipes until one has gone 3
days flushing with buckets, heating water on the stove and washing in the
sink with no pressure.

All is well, aboard the sunken ship, tonight. Her new SEVEN KILOWATT,
240VAC Westinghouse, dual element water heater has been straining several
South Carolina nuclear power plants since she came online at 4PM at 110% of
her NRC licensed power level. SCANA put an extra alternator on the grid to
handle my demand without a brownout downtown. They said I could get
industrial rates next month.

The plumbers celebrated with a couple of Boddington's English Ales to show
my appreciation for an outstanding job done on short notice.

Larry
--
God that shower felt wonderful. I stayed in so long my hands wrinkled like
a prune!

As soon as the Commissioners of Public Works calls back to report the city
water tanks have recovered to a safe level, I'm going back in and continue
the "sea trials" on the new water heater to test its capacity and recovery
time!

"Conserve Water" my ass......(c;
The sewage plant will just have to live with it!

Larry wrote:

The plumbers, who spent 8 manhours replacing the pipes inside my
Oakwood
70, just left a few minutes ago....much richer, by the way.
snip

Ever hear the story about the doctor who called a plumber to make a
house call?

Plumber arrived, spent about 10 minutes, made a modest repair, then
handed the doctor his bill for $150.

Doctor complained, "I'm a doctor and only charge $100 for a house call".

Plumber answered, I know, that's why I quit being a doctor and became
a plumber".

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote in news:WIhji.4157$rR.4007
@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net:

Larry wrote:

The plumbers, who spent 8 manhours replacing the pipes inside my
Oakwood
70, just left a few minutes ago....much richer, by the way.
snip

Ever hear the story about the doctor who called a plumber to make a
house call?

Plumber arrived, spent about 10 minutes, made a modest repair, then
handed the doctor his bill for $150.

Doctor complained, "I'm a doctor and only charge $100 for a house
call".

Plumber answered, I know, that's why I quit being a doctor and became
a plumber".

Lew


Touche'....(c;

I've never figured out why lawyers are more important to humans than the
technicians that keep it all running and make our lives bearable.

Case in point: The next time your head is stopped up, call a lawyer.

How stupid humans are....

Larry
--
While in Mexico, I didn't have to press 1 for Spanish.
While in Iran, I didn't have to press 1 for Farsi, either.
It just isn't fair.

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:54:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

Lew Hodgett wrote in news:WIhji.4157$rR.4007
:

Larry wrote:

The plumbers, who spent 8 manhours replacing the pipes inside my
Oakwood
70, just left a few minutes ago....much richer, by the way.
snip

Ever hear the story about the doctor who called a plumber to make a
house call?

Plumber arrived, spent about 10 minutes, made a modest repair, then
handed the doctor his bill for $150.

Doctor complained, "I'm a doctor and only charge $100 for a house
call".

Plumber answered, I know, that's why I quit being a doctor and became
a plumber".

Lew


Touche'....(c;

I've never figured out why lawyers are more important to humans than the
technicians that keep it all running and make our lives bearable.

Case in point: The next time your head is stopped up, call a lawyer.

How stupid humans are....

Larry

Witch doctors have always had a paramount place in society. Who else
will propagate the evil spirits -- the plumbers?

You go to the doctor and say, "I can't crap", and the doctor gives you
some little white pills. If you talk a little more he'll give you a
prescription for three days bed rest so you can claim your sick leave.
You call a plumber and say "I can't crap" and he says, "I can, maybe,
make it by next Wednesday".




Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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Bruce wrote in
:

Bruce in Bangkok


How is the medical business in Thailand?

Larry
--
While in Mexico, I didn't have to press 1 for Spanish.
While in Iran, I didn't have to press 1 for Farsi, either.
It just isn't fair.

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:24:33 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce wrote in
:

Bruce in Bangkok


How is the medical business in Thailand?

Larry

Booming! Many of the Thai doctors are products of U.S. schools and we
are now inundated with "medical conglomerates". There is, for example,
a Bangkok Hospital; a Bangkok Phuket Hospital; a Bangkok Chang Mai
Hospital.

Medical care in these hospitals is excellence, fluent English, modern
medical appliances and care that you wouldn't believe. sort of 5 star
hotel treatment -- your wife is worried about you waking in the night;
no problem they will move an extra bed in the room so she can sleep
there.

The costs are substantially lower then other countries in the area and
(I'm told) a great deal lower then in America. A friend crashed a
motorcycle and smashed his ankle. I saw the x-rays and his ankle
looked like a handful of gravel. I carried him down to the hospital in
the back of my pickup with his foot in a picnic box full of ice.

The emergency staff met us at the hospital door, delivered the bloke,
and his wife straight to the surgeon's office, x-rays were taken; into
the operating room about 16:00 for a 6 hour surgery; private room;
wife had a bed in the room. The cost, including all out patient care,
physical therapy, follow up visits to the doctor, etc. was about US$
10,000.

Having said all that I go to a local hospital in Bangkok where the
English is marginal, the food is Thai, and the costs are about half
what the high toned "foreigner" hospitals charge.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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Bruce wrote in
:

The costs are substantially lower then other countries in the area and
(I'm told) a great deal lower then in America.

A hospital room in Charleston the size of a big bathroom, similarly
equipped, rents for about the same as a whole floor of the most expensive
hotel in London. An aspirin is about $US25-40, just because they can.
Tylenol, a tremendously-expensive drug, custom made in a clean room
laboratory by each tablet is double that.

If you doubt my drug pricing, go to:
http://www.neulasta.com/patient/index.jsp
Neulasta MIGHT HELP, not DOES, REDUCE, not eliminate, infections in
chemotherapy patients, where the medical profession has you by the balls
and can squeeze as hard as they like and you can't stop them. Now, on
the internet where things are cheaper, right?, a .6ml plastic syringe of
Neulasta.... 6/10th of 1 millilitre....can be found for ONLY:

Neulasta - 6mg/0.6ml Solution 0.6ml Syringe
Quantity Our Price
1 syringe $3,138.75 - save 13% ($488.25)
2 syringes $6,096.15 - save 16% ($1,157.85)
3 syringes $9,144.23 - save 16% ($1,736.77)
4 syringes $12,192.30 - save 16% ($2,315.70)
5 syringes $15,240.38 - save 16% ($2,894.62)
6 syringes $18,288.45 - save 16% ($3,473.55)

Wow! Prices have gone UP! When I looked before, 1 tiny syringe was only
$1600! It's DOUBLED IN A YEAR! That's 13% off RETAIL!

Math lesson....
$3138.75 / .6 = $5,231.25/ml or $5,231,250/litre
which is about $US20,120,192.00 per gallon!
And you thought diesel fuel was expensive!
THERE ISN'T A LIQUID ON THE PLANET WORTH MORE TO HUMAN VICTIMS!
I don't care if the damned stuff has to be made drop by drop by 50 lab
technicians out of Palladium....it's NOT WORTH OVER $20M PER GALLON!

All of my friends attack me, now, because I told them to go see Michael
Moore's new movie "Sicko". They are ALL totally brainwashed by the AMA!
I'm still saying everyone should see it. It was recently posted to
alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries
and is currently one of the top 10 movies in America....the only
documentary like that in many years! It's playing in movie theatres,
here!

In order that your doctor can have 5 new Mercedes cars and a waterfront
mansion on the Atlantic Ocean, not to mention the largest yachts on the
docks, his victims will pay from $US1000 to $US4000/hour for his
partially-divided attention, in 1 hour increments, even if he only sees
you for 8 minutes before turning you over to a nurse or worse. The nurse
is low paid, by American Medical Association (doctor's union) standards.
She only makes $US180K of meager salary, following his orders. All
doctors in the USA are multimillionaires, many times over if they play
their cards right and only work on patients with big insurance coverage
or personal fortunes. Send the others to Charleston Memorial, the
welfare hospital here the lowest class of doctors stay, the ones who
barely passed Medical School us taxpayers paid them to go to, or are from
some 3rd world country doctor mill and can't find work at home making
these big bucks.

I lay on a gurney in the emergency room of St Francis (Catholic, God
bless 'em) hospital for 4 hours passing a kidney stone they never found
with enough Xrays to cause a dosimeter to be over the limit for nuclear
workers at the shipyard. The Catholics charged me for 8 quarts of IV
drip, that distilled water they drip in you, even if you don't need it.
After taking the ITEMIZED bill back down there, a nurse said she could
INJECT 8 quarts in me in 4 hours, but it would kill me. I paid for the
ONE quart I used, not the other 7 billed to me. Distilled water at an
American religious hospital is about $600/gallon in a plastic bag with a
nozzle on it. Hospital Wholesale, it costs them about $2/gallon....which
explains why it is dripped into every patient.

4 hours just laying there, the initial bill was over $2,800, until I
pointed out I didn't use any "suture kits, operating rooms, etc." that
were on the bill and threatened to turn it over to an attorney and let
the courts decide what part was mine. That brought the bill down to
$428, what I paid.

The intern practice doctor that ordered the Demerol ($US93 for 10cc) to
keep me from screaming and disturbing the peace and Xrays ($190/each X 8
when they couldn't find anything), charged me $860, separately, for the
28 minutes he had something to do with me. The bill came from a doctor
group that wasn't listed in the phone book or on the internet, causing me
to be very curious. I was supposed to send money to a PO Box, so I asked
some postal workers to look up who the PO Box belonged to. The PO Box
was rented by a small downtown BANK, not a non-existant doctor's group
who's phone number is St Francis Hospital. I called the bank and asked
to speak with the man whos name was on the PO Box registration. He was
the branch manager. Confronted with my knowledge of his rental and part
in this doctor scam, he got very defensive as if I had found out the
launch codes to the missiles aboard USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-735). I asked
him where the doctor's office was as I wanted to talk to their secretary
about my charges. Of course, having no office, they have no staff, no
rent, nothing except the bank's drop box....sorta like the internet scam
artists I suppose. I waited for THEM to call ME just to see if I could
find out more about them. I didn't have to wait long. I think I was
talking to the Medical Mafia.

If you just paid for 4 hours on the gurney without itemizing and
negotiating, it was about $3800, total. Isn't that great?! No wonder
doctors and medical bureaucrats have such big yachts! I call them
"victimizers" from my side of the table. I'm also not fascinated by
medical TV shows designed to make the public worship them. My plumbers
deserve more worship....every time I open a tap.

Larry
--
Medical service isn't available for most Americans any more....at
$3138/shot.
Watch "Sicko" and pay particular attention to the licensed doctors who
work for the insurance companies REJECTING SERVICE other doctors have
ordered. We only THINK we have medical insurance from ol' "Premium Boy".

We don't.

How many doctors and hospital bureaucrats would we have to hang before
prices dropped? Who do we hang, first, HMOs?

"Bruce" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:24:33 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce wrote in
m:

Bruce in Bangkok


How is the medical business in Thailand?

Larry

Booming! Many of the Thai doctors are products of U.S. schools and we
are now inundated with "medical conglomerates". There is, for example,
a Bangkok Hospital; a Bangkok Phuket Hospital; a Bangkok Chang Mai
Hospital.

Medical care in these hospitals is excellence, fluent English, modern
medical appliances and care that you wouldn't believe. sort of 5 star
hotel treatment -- your wife is worried about you waking in the night;
no problem they will move an extra bed in the room so she can sleep
there.

The costs are substantially lower then other countries in the area and
(I'm told) a great deal lower then in America. A friend crashed a
motorcycle and smashed his ankle. I saw the x-rays and his ankle
looked like a handful of gravel. I carried him down to the hospital in
the back of my pickup with his foot in a picnic box full of ice.

The emergency staff met us at the hospital door, delivered the bloke,
and his wife straight to the surgeon's office, x-rays were taken; into
the operating room about 16:00 for a 6 hour surgery; private room;
wife had a bed in the room. The cost, including all out patient care,
physical therapy, follow up visits to the doctor, etc. was about US$
10,000.

Having said all that I go to a local hospital in Bangkok where the
English is marginal, the food is Thai, and the costs are about half
what the high toned "foreigner" hospitals charge.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

I found the same in Phuket International Hospital. There are several other
ones there, but
being a foreigner, I was taken to this one. Can't say enough about the
treatment and the staff.

Leanne

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:08:13 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce wrote in
:

The costs are substantially lower then other countries in the area and
(I'm told) a great deal lower then in America.

A hospital room in Charleston the size of a big bathroom, similarly
equipped, rents for about the same as a whole floor of the most expensive
hotel in London. An aspirin is about $US25-40, just because they can.
Tylenol, a tremendously-expensive drug, custom made in a clean room
laboratory by each tablet is double that.



Much snipped...

I have no intention of going into the intricacies of U.S. health costs
other then to say that when I was a youngster (1) doctors made house
calls, and (2) they didn't drive mercedes.

I might also comment that with all the furor over medical
patents,costs, etc., the total cost for an AIDs sufferer in Thailand
is 50 baht per month (about US$ 1.50). That is for the doctor, any
tests required, lab work, and medicine.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:39:33 -0400, "Leanne" wrote:


"Bruce" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:24:33 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce wrote in
:

Bruce in Bangkok


How is the medical business in Thailand?

Larry

Booming! Many of the Thai doctors are products of U.S. schools and we
are now inundated with "medical conglomerates". There is, for example,
a Bangkok Hospital; a Bangkok Phuket Hospital; a Bangkok Chang Mai
Hospital.

Medical care in these hospitals is excellence, fluent English, modern
medical appliances and care that you wouldn't believe. sort of 5 star
hotel treatment -- your wife is worried about you waking in the night;
no problem they will move an extra bed in the room so she can sleep
there.

The costs are substantially lower then other countries in the area and
(I'm told) a great deal lower then in America. A friend crashed a
motorcycle and smashed his ankle. I saw the x-rays and his ankle
looked like a handful of gravel. I carried him down to the hospital in
the back of my pickup with his foot in a picnic box full of ice.

The emergency staff met us at the hospital door, delivered the bloke,
and his wife straight to the surgeon's office, x-rays were taken; into
the operating room about 16:00 for a 6 hour surgery; private room;
wife had a bed in the room. The cost, including all out patient care,
physical therapy, follow up visits to the doctor, etc. was about US$
10,000.

Having said all that I go to a local hospital in Bangkok where the
English is marginal, the food is Thai, and the costs are about half
what the high toned "foreigner" hospitals charge.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

I found the same in Phuket International Hospital. There are several other
ones there, but
being a foreigner, I was taken to this one. Can't say enough about the
treatment and the staff.

Leanne

That is the other up market hospital here. It is also part of a chain
of up market hospitals but the service is really good.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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