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Howard McCollister wrote:
> "SJ Doc" <SJ_Doc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:sf6bj157c5v4eun9ukndg9b965eko9cg46@xxxxxxxxxx
> > On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:17:00 -0400, K@.not wrote:
> >
> > A truss is of little or no value, and I do not recommend
> > it. If your friend is willing to do a decent job of "prepping"
> > himself for surgery, I suspect that any teaching hospital's
> > general surgery service would be happy to take him on
> > through the outpatient clinic. Surgical residents (not
> > students!) generally welcome uncomplicated inguinal
> > hernia cases in order to fulfill their requirements for
> > board eligibility. Just make sure that the chief resident
> > is one of the guys scrubbing in on the case, and that
> > you get it done within the first six months of the calendar
> > year.
> >
>
> This patient will still need to be admitted, his care supervised by an
> attending physician. It won't be free, or even cheaper. Certainly not in the
> sense that you can get a cheap haircut at a barber college.
>
> HMc
He could stop driving for a month. That should do it nicely.
{Today: $1.08 a litre, down from $1.18 last week. Good thing I don't
live in the Maritimes; $2-$3 a litre}
Zee
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