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[theweaselking]

Tobias Buckell had a medical emergency at Worldcon and was forced to venture into "the blighted hellscape of socialised medicine"

As Doctor Chad puts it: "Luckily, the impersonal bureaucrats of the Quebecois Death Board were in a good mood, and all he got was quality medical care followed by a single bill, rather than mandatory euthanasia."

Comments

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

Had Stephen Hawking come before the panel, the outcome might have been different.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Yay, I was totally gonna say something about him too.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Huh, what? Stephen Hawking is British ...

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

read post from yesterday

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

Teehee. Like David Sedaris says (I'm paraphrasing here) in "Me Talk Pretty One Day": The ease and affordability of the French Healthcare system allowed him to finally become a hypochondriac.

I long for the day when I, too, can go to the doctor when something hurts, even if it's probably just some bad fish or a twisted ankle.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

man, when I was in college, I'd go to the doctor to get an extension on my essays. No word of a lie.

"uh, I had those panic attacks again last night so I didn't get this done, can you write my prof a note? *doe eyes*"

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It still confuses the hell out of me that you can't. I mean, I *know* you can't. I just don't, you know, internalize it.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

oh, I can. But it costs me $30 every time I visit my family physician and $60 every time I visit any specialist. Yay!

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Yay for stimulating people into putting off doctor's visits.

Preventive care is, after all, much overrated.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

This comment (http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2009/08/the_blighted_hellscape_of_soci.php#comment-1834659) just kills me.