Chuckle 1087

Chuckle 1087
(Rick R of Surrey BC gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~Canadian Health Care~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

Two patients limp into two Canadian Medical clinics with the same complaint. Both have trouble walking and appear to require a hip replacement.

The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week.

The second sees the family doctor after waiting a week for an appointment, then waits eighteen weeks to see a specialist, then gets an x-ray, which isn't reviewed for another month and finally has his surgery scheduled for
6 months from then.

Why the different treatment for the two patients?

The first is a Golden Retriever.....

The second is a Senior Citizen.

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• Today in history
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Word of the Day for Thursday June 29, 2006

timorous \TIM-uhr-uhs\, adjective:1. Full of apprehensiveness; timid; fearful.2. Indicating, or caused by, fear.

Girls, allegedly so timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and even in debating clubs.-- Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys

Some men by the unalterable frame of their constitutions, are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest.-- John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.-- Seamus Heaney, "Elegy"
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(Find the 6 differences, answers below)