Posted on 06/30/2005 5:54:54 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Moose checks into hospital emergency room
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
by Jeffrey Hope
Anchorage, Alaska - The emergency room at Alaska Regional Hospital has seen just about everything, but nobody was prepared for the patient who dropped in this morning.
It was about 6:30 a.m. and a young moose decided to check into the ER. The scene was caught on the hospital's security camera.
Dr. Don Hudson was on duty at the time. The videotape shows him taking a quick look at the patient, then wisely going for a second opinion.
The moose spent more than a minute inside the emergency room, then quietly left the way it came in.
Alaska Regional says that, although the moose did not have insurance, they were prepared to give him a complete medical screening.
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What can I say. I had a tummyache.
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My sister once bit a moose but it wasn't bad enough for it to go to a hospital.
Even mooses know how to take advantage of the American health care system. Are we a compassionate country or what.
Even mooses know how to take advantage of the American health care system. Are we a compassionate country or what.
Scared away by not having the means to handle the red tape no doubt.
Video is worth a look. I've never been in and out of an emergency room that fast and I used to work in 'em. I'd say the moose was in there, got checked out and was gone in inside of a minute. That would never happen under HillaryCare.
He was looking for my sister.
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