People who can afford to pay for surgery at the Mayo clinic will always be able to jump to the head of the line. Or at least find some line they can pay for the first place in line. Such people will always be able to take care of themselves and their own (up to the point that taking care is possible). It's the rest of us who have limited options.
We seem to have developed this idea that medicine is a magic wand. Just go and they will give you a pill and everything will be okay. Or more dangerously, do whatever you want, eat whatever you want and live however you want and somehow the doctors will be able to undo the damage. It just doesn't work that way. Never did and probably never will. Surgery in particular is dangerous. Often necessary and often advisable but things can and do go wrong. The same with medicine. It's not a controlled laboratory experiment. There's no way of knowing what the outcome will be, only what the likely outcome will be and often we see lawsuits in the US that are based on the unreasonable idea that doctors are gods and that medicine is an exact science. It's absurd. I'm sorry for people's losses and mean no disrespect. But there are no guarantees and people need to stop acting like children in this regard and grow up.
Houndentenor
"Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs." -- Bette Midler
