This Time, We Won't Scare

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

perhaps you've seen those television commercials denouncing health care reform as a plot to create a canadian-style totalitarian nightmare, and you feel a wee bit scared.

back in the election campaign, some people spread rumors that barack obama might be a secret muslim conspiring to impose sharia law on us. that seems unlikely now, but what if he's a covert canadian plotting to impose ... health care?...

... "i realized my hand was numb, so i tried to stand up to shake it out," she remembered. "but i had trouble standing."

a colleague called 911, and an ambulance rushed her to the nearest hospital.

"an emergency room doctor met me at the door, and they took me straight upstairs to the ct scan," she recalled. a neurologist explained that she had suffered a stroke.

ms. tucker spent a week at the hospital. "the doctors were great, although there were also a couple of jerks," she said. "the nursing staff was wonderful."...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/opinion/11kristof.html