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October 9, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Surgery sign
Dan Thornton submits a picture taken in Dublin, Ireland:
This surgery sign was taken on a main street in the center of Dublin.
If they can't keep their sign in good condition I fear how I would actually be treated in surgery!
The nice part is the semi-creation of the word "urgery." Surgery meets urgency meets the side of a semi.
>since the numbers say he/she
>won't make another mistake for
>a long time?
I hope you're not serious.
They put so much time into caring for patients that they don't have time to fix the sign.
I don't know, it sounded good in my head.
"the numbers say he/she won't make another mistake for a long time?"
Klew needs to rent "The World According to GARP" with Robin Williams.
GARP and Mrs. GARP are deciding to buy a house, when a small plane having engine trouble crashes into it.
GARP: "We'll take it!"
Mrs. GARP: "What? It's destroyed!!"
GARP: "Honey! Think of the chances of it happening AGAIN!"
Wow, hope they don't use tape on me like they did to the sign. Also, it could be weather that tore it down.
Folks, don't forget that in the UK and Ireland, a doctor's or dentist's "surgery" is their "office"...
When your storefront is falling apart it always makes a bad impression, regardless of what kind of business you're in. The only excuse for a sign like this is if the damage was very recent. Even if you can't afford to fix it, you at least have to make temporary repairs so that customers know that YOU know there's a problem.
Now that I look closer, there is tape all over the sign which does qualify as "temporary repairs". But it still looks like crap. Guess I'll amend my previous comment to "...temporary repairs that don't look like crap".
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Could be sabotage from a rival clinic.
If statistics say a surgeon makes a mistake once every however many times, would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who has never made a mistake, or one who just made a mistake, since the numbers say he/she won't make another mistake for a long time?
Posted by: klew at October 9, 2006 12:24 AM