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Dear Mr. Menick:
Hi. How are you? I am fine.
Things are winding down here in Philadelphia. As you know, there was a lot of talk about replacing some of the statues of Ben Franklin with statues of Jon Cruz, but the mayor finally decided that the time just wasn't right yet. Next year, maybe. After Villiger.
It's been pretty hectic here, as you can imagine. Most of my time was spent trying to figure out which code was which person. Keeping everyone's identity a secret is really important, as you know. It's like Batman and Bruce Wayne; if everyone knew Batman's secret identity, he'd win a lot more rounds than he would if he just went on talent alone. Or something like that. Anyhow, you can imagine how hard it is to find out that 14393023-A34-B34^^7&-X is actually Joe McDoakes from Kalamazoo. There's like twelve thousand people here, and usually the minute I found out their code, they dropped out of the tournament. It's been a busy week for me.
Too bad you can't be here. You'd get a lot more NFL points if you actually showed up some year. I know you think that NFL points aren't worth all that much, but Mr. Wunn is working on an arrangement where they can be exchanged for frequent flier miles on TWA (which will be great if TWA ever starts flying again).
After this is all over we head back to KGB headquarters to get ready for our annual summer camp. "That's when this forensician idolatry all pays off," or at least that's what some instructor from another institute told me. "They tell the little bastids how cool they are, and then they soak 'em all for a couple of Gs each. What a scam!" Of course, that's all sour grapes, I think. Our KGB camp really is better than the one that guy has in El Paso, for instance. I mean, yes, they can cross over the border for cheap dentistry, but we've got Forensic Idols!
May all your Christmases be white.
Your friend,
Herman Melville
Cub Reporter
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I knew when I got back from Philly I'd have something entertaining to read. It's too bad I missed the real author of the Nostrum, though...again.
Internet Medical Tourism. Do it yourself?
By Dick Detering. ( email address customer-service@medical-tourism-asia.com)
Medical Tourism also referred to as Health Tourism or Health Outsourcing means traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, and surgical care. A combination of many factors has led to the recent increase in popularity of medical tourism. These factors are: exorbitant costs of healthcare in industrialized nations, ease and affordability of international travel, favorable currency exchange rates in the global economy, rapidly improving technology and standards of care in many countries of the world, and most importantly proven safety of healthcare in foreign nations like Mexico, Costa Rica, Thailand, Hungary and Poland. These aspects have all led to the rise of medical tourism. More and more people are traveling abroad as an affordable, enjoyable, and safe alternative to having medical, dental, and surgical procedures done in their home countries.
Many Medical Tourism agencies, most of them located in the US and the UK, are promoting health treatments abroad on the Internet. All of them have contracts with participating hospitals, doctors, dentists and clinics. A disadvantage of using the service of medical tourism agencies is the fact that medical facilities abroad usually add 10-20% for commissions payable to the agency that refers the patient. That makes medical treatments more expensive. Another disadvantage is the fact that the patient cannot choose his/her own doctor or dentist. In most cases it's the agency that determines which doctor will be selected to perform the desired procedure or which limited group of doctors or facilities the patient can choose from.
Of course there is a "do it yourself" alternative. Some try to find foreign clinics on the Internet without the use of medical agency services. But, researching an entire health industry in foreign countries seems to be time consuming, confusing and could be risky. It seems better to take advantage of the experience and expertise Medical Tourism agencies claim to have.
However there is a new type of Medical Tourism Agency finding its way on the Internet: do it HALF yourself after the new agency has taken care of the other half first. This new alternative is offered by the companies "Dentist Abroad Inc." ( http://www.medical-tourism-asia.net ) and "Plastic Surger Abroad Inc." ( http://www.medical-tourism-asia.com ) both operating from Houston Texas. For $15 the companies provide a thoroughly screened exclusive list of plastic surgeons, doctors, hospitals, cosmetic surgery clinics, dental surgeons, and dental clinics abroad including all contact info, complete pricing, years of experience, working procedures, specialty, sub specialty and all neccessary background information. Moreover customers are entitled to free lifetime updates on all the information provided and free lifetime customer support.
Related links can be found here: http://www.medical-tourism-asia.com and http://www.medical-tourism-asia.net
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