Healthcare System Observer Mugs

"I'm through playing doctor. With insurance forms, co-payments, and malpractice suits, it's just no fun!"

'I hope you don't mind...I let myself in through the Back Door!'

Surgeon finds a doohickey on the patient's thingamabob.

'Chicken Farms - Pecking Order'

Manufacturing will take place in China...So what role does Europe have?...you borrow money to be the customer

'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!'

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are here.

Stafford Hospital - Twinned with Hell.

Minister rubbishes private sector hospital initiative.

"Rumours of a crisis in the NHS are groundless...Spending is up by 2%, management ratios down by 62%..."

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

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

'This doesn't look good.'

"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."

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

"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."

'As you know, this is a Right-To-Work-Cheap-OR-we-send-your-job-to-Asia-state...'

Doctor sits near work boxes labelled; 'NHS' and 'Private'.

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

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

"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."

'You know the rules, Mr Dotterill - you're only allowed one visitor at a time.'