Medical Mishaps
And astronomical health care costs

How risky is your hospital?
    How risky is your doc?
The odds you'll be malpracticed on?
    How much did Elvis rock?

Could your case be misdiagnosed
    and your prescription garbled?
Could questions as to what went wrong
    get your demise Miss Marpled

On PBS's Myst'ry Theatre
    with all the royalties
Going to the miscreants
    and hospital trustees?

"Doctor" errors kill more folks
    than Bush did in Iraq –
Than U.S. highway accidents –
    Than those who OD crack.

So will your accidental death
    increase our health care costs?
More than Medicare had planned?
    Keep your fingers crossed.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
6/2/09

To 'Doctors'