American Medical System

[Guest McCarey007]

Okay, I have to admit, I know very little as to how the system works in the States. I know one needs to purchase health insurance and that their system favours the rich. If you have the $, then you'll get superior health service.

 

Could someone shed some more light on how their system works?

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<pagetext>just thought I'd share this hilarious discussion in SDN..talks about akward interview experiences..here are two samples (retrievable from forums.studentdoctor.net/...genumber=1 ):

 

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My very first interview, at Columbia:

 

Interviewer: So what books are you reading now, and please don't say The World According to Garp.

 

Me: (thinking, What's with the Irving grudge?) I'm reading the Lord of the Rings just to read it before the movie comes out.

 

I: Yes, my son is doing that too. What does the ring do?

 

Me: (thinking, AHa! I know this one!) It makes you invisible.

 

I: And what else?

 

Me: (thinking, ok, concrete didn't work, time to get allegorical)Well, there's a lot of metaphorical references to the ring being connected to 'the great eye of Sauron' so it can also be interpreted as an instrument of vision as well as an instrument of invisibility.

 

I: And what else?

 

Me: (thinking, oh @#%$, I thought that last one was pretty good.)

Well, uh, the ring also warps the mind of its wearer after time, it becomes a focus of extreme jealousy, and because of that sort of jealousy, a source of isolation.

 

I: And what else?

 

Me: Well, the short poem at the beginning of the book also says that the ring also binds the other, lesser rings together, so it has an element of ruling power as well.

 

I: Ah, yes, I had forgotten that. And what else?

 

Me: (feeling like a real dork at this point, and really scraping the bottom of the barrel) Well, returning to the vision theme, the wearer is also taken out of the world of sunlight and brought into a sort of shadow world... but I'm getting the sense that's not what you're looking for.

 

I: The wearer of the ring never gets older.

 

Me: Ah, that's right, I'd forgotten that.

 

I: That's because you're not worried about getting old.

 

He then went on to talk about fears of aging and dying in his older patients and sort of implied that I was shallow for not thinking of it.

 

 

I got waitlisted in the end.

 

 

 

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At Temple:

 

Everyone is sitting in the waiting room, getting ready for the financial aide presentation. This guy walks, really sweaty and nervous, and everyone asks him what is wrong. He says, "I really wanted to go here, but I completely messed up my interview, and now I have no chance." Everyone tells him it couldn't be that bad, and asks him what went wrong.

 

He explains, "Well, my interviewer asked 'My wife is Persian, but I'm not. What are your feelings on that?.' The problem was, that's not what I thought he said. I could have sworn he said, 'My wife is a virgin, but I'm not. What are your feelings on that?,' so that's the question I proceeded to answer...."

 

You just can't make this stuff up. (Thanks Corey)

 

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