Hello there Halifax,
As a person who works in the health care industry with patients I ask you to please bring your health card to every visit when you know you are coming to a hospital, we are required to ask for it (every visit) and check it to make sure it’s valid. I cannot believe the amount of taxes we pay for our privilage of “free” healthcare we have in this provience and people cannot remember to bring the one card that covers them. On the back of your card (take it out every now and then to see if it’s still valid) there is even a toll free number to call to get it renewed. Not that hard. I’ve heard every excuse but if I handed them a bill (for hundreds of dollers in some cases, as my dentist likes to do) I wouldn’t hear the end of it. If people would think of their health cards as their credit card for the hospital they soon wouldn’t forget, also if they had to pay those bills outright they soon wouldn’t forget either. Also, if your here in the city going to university GET YOUR HEALTHCARD FROM YOUR MOMMEY!!!! She can’t be everywhere with you everytime your need to get that rash checked!!
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2008.
LOL!! I would trade you oh so hard task of asking someone idiot for there Health Card than deal with you cunts at the hospital. The last thing most of you people down there care about is our health. You just want to get us out of your face as quick as possible so you can keep talking to each other about which stuck up nurse is sleeping with which underqualified doctor. Give me a break.
I don’t even know if that made sense I’m so pissed off. Healthcare workers in this city are a friggin joke.
That is not an unreasonable request – you carry a bank card, why the hell wouldn’t you carry your health card as well? There might be a speeding bus out there with your name on the bumper.
Hey Carnate Next time your register for a clinic, or register your child for a clinic, call the registration person a cunt to their face and see how far you get, believe me we are just the bottom of the pole…if you knew how much shit we had to put up with you would change your tune. As far as I’m concerned your sorry ass could stay under that speeding bus…..
Sorry, have to agree with the original poster on this one. Carnate obviously has no idea of the daily stresses of working in health care in this province. Sure, there are a few bad apples (isn’t there in every profession?), but don’t paint us all with the same brush. We’re not all cunts (or arseholes).
Carnate, just because you may have had a negative experience at the hospital, it doesnt justify painting all health care workers with the same brush! Your stereotyping really makes you seem obscenely ignorant and uneducated, like a lazy-thinker, you must realize! I had chronic athsma as a child and was hospitalized regularly. As well as that, two immediate family members were also very ill as children and spent a lot of time in the hospital. The nurses were incredible, like mothers actually, and it werent for them, life in the hospital would’ve been hell!! And by the way, you jackass, my mother is a nurse and has the biggest, kindest heart of anybody you would ever meet! Your fucking dick could be green and hanging by a thread, but she’s find a way to make you smile regardless. So go fuck yourself, Carnate.
wow… calm down girls. Aside from the fact that I did say most, rather than all, did none of you see the exact attitude that I’m talking about in the original post?”GET YOUR HEALTHCARD FROM YOUR MOMMEY!!!! “What the fuck is that? Treat someone with that kind of attitude and expect to get it back. I have my health card and birth cert with me always, but if I happened to forget it on the one day I actually needed it, all of a sudden i’d be the asshole? Think about that for a minute.You’re correct that I don’t know the daily stresses of health care in this province, but everyone of us has heard the horror stories for the last 30 years. You chose your field. Not me.I along with so many other I know have had to deal with plenty of crap from the staff down there. And don’t even begin to suggest that it’s my attitude because I do my best to put a smile on YOUR face when I’m there since you do put with such shit all the time.This is far from a few bad apples. This is a few bad trees.The hilarity of it all is the amount of effort I put in to help others whenever I can, asking nothing in return, but I take issue with healthcare workers and their attitudes and that makes me the asshole. Nice ladies… very nice.
On a side note. I shouldn’t have used profanity as it completely belittles the intention of a debate or oppinion. However, in return, only Elbee & Molly were able to reply without attacking back (thus not stooping to my depths in the hell you’d like to see me banished.)Kudos to the two of you. You two others… don’t play in the mud with me. You’ll lose… and I don’t enjoy it down there.
Hey Carnate,’Don’t play in the mud with me. You’ll lose…’Ahahaha!!!Ooo, you’re just so tough!! I’m really intimidated right now, just picturing you with your eyes narrowed to slits, a 5 o’clock shadow on your face, cracking your knuckles. Who are you, the Clint Eastwood of ‘Love the Way We Bitch’?
Haha..Not bad, NMH. Not bad at all.
Seriously? Clint Eastwood? That’s your big retort? I’ll be sure to hang my head in shame for the rest of day. I have officially been told. Well done madam.
Thanks K.bosski! ;-)Oh Carnate, the classic ‘Is that all you can say?’ is such a cop-out. I’m dissapointed!! Although I didn’t know you were looking for a retort styled after your own cheesy tough-guy-one-liners, I suppose I could think one up, after I rent a few Steven Seagal or Stallone films.’Dont play I the mud..you’ll lose’ Haha!!Sorry, I couldnt resist!
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