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"These pills are $10 if you're paying for them... and $200 if your company is paying for them."

"Those bullet holes are something new, aren't they?"

"This new pharmacist gives me the willies." "Surprise! Make America Great Again!"

"According to our waiting-room security cam, you're fidgety and have a constant head itch."

"I couldn't afford to have dental work done, but I did find this mask"

Surgeon finds a doohickey on the patient's thingamabob.

He used to pass the buck, since being promoted to management he gets to call it delegating authority.

'Chicken Farms - Pecking Order'

'The doctor says he's going to have to give you a few more tests...'

'Long shift?'

'I miss telling people they can't have a day off to be with their sick children!'

'You can tell your grandkids, you rode the most expensive vehicle on Earth!'

"I don't know how to tell you this, but it looks like you have a brain the size of a walnut."

'Whatever it is, you've got it bad and that ain't good.'

"What we need in this organisation is more personal contact."

'How dare they make these kind of suggestions?!'

"And once we wipe out the disease, where does that leave us?"

'I suppose it was a blessing. Toward the end he was finding it very difficult to remain competitive.'

'It's important to treat all our patients as individuals...this for example is individual number 78/yh5-fg34c.'

You are here.

Stafford Hospital - Twinned with Hell.

Minister rubbishes private sector hospital initiative.

"Today we insure every American and end the need for private health insurance."

'This doesn't look good.'

C'mon, Bob, the associate chases the manager's tail, the manager chases the VP's tail, and the VP chases my tail for me – You know how this works.

"You know it's the American drug companies that give you the headache that is cured by the pills they sell you."

"At our company everything is based on trust. You can trust that you can trust no one."

Playing doctor: 'This time I get to play the HMO bureaucrat who decides if you live or die.'

No matter where he worked, Frank always found himself six cubicles of separation removed from the fun crowd.

"Well, I'll be - he cut and ran."

"To give him credit...normally I think these staff 'consultations' are a complete waste of time...but he's been in his office all morning working on our ideas."

"I'm sorry, Mr Percival, but what you've got is not economically treatable."

"I'm writing to mother to let her know how you're doing.Is deathbed one word or two?"

'The medical society says yes, the hospital says maybe and his lawyer says no.'

"Do a double-blind test. Give the new drug to rich patients and a placebo to the poor. No sense getting their hopes up. They couldn't afford it even if it works."