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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: Isn't this a conflict of interest |
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Whenever I go to Severance Hospital, I always smirk at this sign:
A hospital with a funeral home? Isn't this a bit like an eye doc that also sells frames? Or a doctor who also happens to own his own pharmacy and runs it out of his office? Whether the hospital heals you or kills you, it's a win for them. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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I'd laugh at a "Severance" Hospital with an amputee ward, and then quickly cough and look around to make sure nobody saw. |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
I'd laugh at a "Severance" Hospital with an amputee ward, and then quickly cough and look around to make sure nobody had a saw. |
Fixed it. |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Well, sad to say, for whatever reason, people do die in hospitals.
I don't quite see the humor, but that's because my father in law died in a hospital and I spent 24 hours in the room the family rented at the funeral hall. It was pretty stressful. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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riley wrote: |
Well, sad to say, for whatever reason, people do die in hospitals.
I don't quite see the humor, but that's because my father in law died in a hospital and I spent 24 hours in the room the family rented at the funeral hall. It was pretty stressful. |
I fully expect my friends and family to tell jokes at my funeral.
I remember once I was flying to Korea from Seattle. It's cheaper if you fly Seattle to Vancouver and then take Air Canada to Seoul. Anyway, you take a little prop plane from Seattle to Vancouver. I was explaining the the little puddle jump to a woman on the airport van who was flying some place or another. This was shortly post-9/11. I kept calling the plane a "Buddy Holly jobber". At some point she stopped me and was like "why do you call it that?"
"Oh you know, like one of those planes that killed Buddy Holly."
"How can you tell jokes about that before a flight?"
"I don't know. Death is funny." |
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Alyallen

Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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JongnoGuru wrote: |
RACETRAITOR wrote: |
I'd laugh at a "Severance" Hospital with an amputee ward, and then quickly cough and look around to make sure nobody had a saw. |
Fixed it. |
Too witty...
Bravo! |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
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It's called an each way bet!
We make money if we cure you,
We make money if we don't
BRILLIANT
I want to buy some shares in that hospital. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:41 am Post subject: |
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You think that's a conflict? There's a surgeon in Northern California with the surname of Shakin. |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:13 am Post subject: |
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I fully expect my friends and family to tell jokes at my funeral. |
Laugh at my funeral? Depends on what type. If I want it to be a wake, then they better be laughing it up, especially given how my luck goes and I fully expect to die in some ridicilous fashion.
The other way would be some sort of Viking funeral pyre, seriously, if I could do that, that would be cool. |
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out of context
Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Location: Daejeon
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: |
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To me it always seemed to show a lack of confidence more than anything else. |
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blynch

Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: UCLA
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:47 am Post subject: |
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mm2 you just have too much free time on your hands. |
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pest2

Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Alyallen wrote: |
JongnoGuru wrote: |
RACETRAITOR wrote: |
I'd laugh at a "Severance" Hospital with an amputee ward, and then quickly cough and look around to make sure nobody had a saw. |
Fixed it. |
Too witty...
Bravo! |
If they saw your head, you can use the funeral svc, too! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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blynch wrote: |
mm2 you just have too much free time on your hands. |
And you need to get laid. So what? |
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Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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blynch wrote: |
mm2 you just have too much free time on your hands. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Coquitlam, BC
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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mindmetoo wrote: |
"Oh you know, like one of those planes that killed Buddy Holly."
"How can you tell jokes about that before a flight?"
"I don't know. Death is funny." |
Back when I worked as a Resident "Inter-faith" Hospital Chaplain (aka. Dr. Death) at the Toronto Hospital~ General Division & also the Hamilton-Wentworth Hospital, we would hang out with some of the Coroners and they had some really macabre stories that were really twisted. Morbid, yet funny. You would have really loved them Mindmetoo!  |
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