New health plan for "oldies"

[Eager Beaver]

That's about the truth. Comrade obama did state that the life of one teenager is worth the life of 14 elderlies. I bet that does not include his maw-in-law that is staying in the white house at tax-payers expense.

Must be listening to Rush or O'wrongly again. LOL EB

[Cane Pole]

This video kinda reminds me of the town hall debates regarding health care reform.

YouTube - Gabby Johnson, Blazing Saddles rant

He musta been sniffin' some of Slim Pickens bio-fuel. Same ingredients as the Obamer fuel.

[oldwun]

Cane Pole you hit the nail on the head!

[Cane Pole]

Obama been studying the Muslims. He learned the camel herders pack camel poop in hollow bamboo chutes to burn as fuel as there are few trees in the desolate lands of the camel kings.

He is now scouting for a turd Czar. Should not be hard for him to find a turd checker. :rolleyes:

[Herewego]

SOON TO BE GONE

By A MILITARY
DOCTOR


This should be required
reading in every school and college in our country. This Captain, an
Army doctor, deserves a medal himself for putting this together.

I am a doctor
specializing in the Emergency Departments of the only two military
Level One-Trauma Centers, both in San Antonio , TX and they
care for civilian Emergencies as well as military personnel. San
Antonio has the largest military retiree population in the world
living here.. As a military doctor, I work long hours and the pay is
less than glamorous. One tends to become jaded by the long hours,
lack of sleep, food, family contact and the endless parade of human
suffering passing before you. The arrival of another ambulance does
not mean more pay, only more work.


Most often, it is a victim
from a motor vehicle crash.





Often it is a
person of dubious character who has been shot or stabbed. With our
large military retiree population, it is often a nursing home
patient. Even with my enlisted service and minimal combat experience
in Panama , I have caught myself groaning when the ambulance brought
in yet another sick, elderly person from one of the local retirement
centers that cater to military retirees. I had not stopped to think
of what citizens of this age group represented.






I saw 'Saving
Private Ryan.' I was touched deeply.. Not so much by the carnage,
but by the sacrifices of so many. I was touched most by the scene of
the elderly survivor at the graveside, asking his wife if he'd been
a good man. I realized that I had seen these same men and women
coming through my Emergency Dept. And had not realized what
magnificent sacrifices they had made. The things they did for me and
everyone else that has lived on this planet since the end of that
conflict are priceless.




Situation
permitting, I now try to ask my patients about their experiences.
They would never bring up the subject without the inquiry. I have
been privileged to an amazing array of experiences, recounted in the
brief minutes allowed in an Emergency Dept. Encounter.. These
experiences have revealed the incredible individuals I have had the
honor of serving in a medical capacity, many on their last admission
to the hospital.





There was a
frail, elderly woman who reassured my young enlisted medic, trying
to start an IV line in her arm. She remained calm and poised,
despite her illness and the multiple needle-sticks into her fragile
veins. She was what we call a 'hard stick.' As the medic made
another attempt, I noticed a number tattooed across her forearm. I
touched it with one finger and looked into her eyes. She simply
said, ' Auschwitz ..' Many of later generations would have loudly
and openly berated the young medic in his many attempts. How
different was the response from this person who'd seen unspeakable
suffering.




Also, there
was this long retired Colonel, who as a young officer had parachuted
from his burning plane over a Pacific Island held by the Japanese.
Now an octogenarian, he had a minor cut on his head from a fall at
his home where he lived alone. His CT scan and suturing had been
delayed until after midnight by the usual parade of high priority
ambulance patients. Still spry for his age, he asked to use the
phone to call a taxi, to take him home, then he realized his
ambulance had brought him without his wallet. He asked if he could
use the phone to make a long distance call to his daughter who lived
7 miles away. With great pride we told him that he could not, as
he'd done enough for his country and the least we could do was get
him a taxi home, even if we had to pay for it ourselves. My only
regret was that my shift wouldn't end for several hours, and I
couldn't drive him myself.





I was there
the night M/Sgt. Roy Benavidez came through the Emergency Dept. For
the last time. He was very sick. I was not the doctor taking care of
him, but I walked to his bedside and took his hand. I said nothing.
He was so sick, he didn't know I was there. I'd read his
Congressional Medal of Honor citation and wanted to shake his hand.
He died a few days later.



The gentleman who served
with Merrill's Marauders,



the survivor of the Bataan
Death March,



the survivor of
Omaha Beach ,

the 101 year old World War
I veteran.



The former
POW held in frozen North Korea ,



The
former Special Forces medic - now with non-operable liver
cancer,


the former
Viet Nam Corps Commander.



I remember
these citizens..






I may still
groan when yet another ambulance comes in, but now I am much more
aware of what an honor it is to serve these particular men and
women.

I have seen a Congress who
would turn their back on these individuals who've sacrificed so much
to protect our liberty. I see later generations that seem to be
totally engrossed in abusing these same liberties, won with such
sacrifice.





It has become
my personal endeavor to make the nurses and young enlisted medics
aware of these amazing individuals when I encounter them in our
Emergency Dept. Their response to these particular citizens has made
me think that perhaps all is not lost in the next
generation.





My
experiences have solidified my belief that we are losing an
incredible generation, and this nation knows not what it is losing.
Our uncaring government and ungrateful civilian populace should all
take note. We should all remember that we must 'Earn
this.'




Written By CPT. Stephen R.
Ellison, M.D. US Army

If it
weren't for the United States military,
there'd be NO United
States of America .