Kinkikali

Catholic Medical Center

Medicine 2010 can be pretty neat.  High tech and lots of wow, CMC is running commercials on their cutting edge technology.  Trouble is what about the cost? I have been unemployed since Oct. 2007.  I had a $200 simple doctor’s visit in November.  In February with a full blood test I expect to pay around $500 which is what it just cost me to fill my oil tank.  Is that commercial misleading–in a way.  There is glittery, cool, snazzy end of medicine and then there is the crappy, stinky, awkward, poke green side of medicine.  Both are valid.  But neither alone are truthful.  The trouble with “cheery side” of things in advertisement falsifies the “gloomy side” where a great many people are stuck.   How much does that cute technology cost a ride—$5000?  $7500?  makes a HUGE difference to Penniless Peter.  All show and no tell can in my opinion go to…   Enough said.