Sunday, December 27, 2015

New Risks at Rural Hospitals

"Many studies suggest that patients generally get better results when their procedures are done at hospitals that perform them frequently."       From the Wall Street Journal.

I went into the hospital to have my tonsils out;
and then with dengue fever I did have a longish bout.
When that was o'er a heart murmur kept me laid up for weeks;
then surgeons practiced on me sev'ral new-fangled techniques. 
The nurses kept neglecting to perform the full routine;
my skin was turning yellow and my tongue a verdant green.
The bed sores got so awful that I cried myself to sleep;
I thought that soon I'd see the guy so grim that likes to reap.
When at last I was released I swore, as a true cynic,
never to go in again to bed and breakfast clinic!   

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