{"id":30922,"date":"2024-01-31T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30922"},"modified":"2024-03-06T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:20:16","slug":"the-envy-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/the-envy-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ENVY CLINIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">I envy<\/span> <\/strong>you. Don&#8217;t gloat over that. I envy a lot of people. For instance, I envy the patients at the Cleveland Clinic. They are among the 1,700 sickest people in the world. The Clinic is the 4th-best hospital in the country, according to <em>US News &amp; World Report<\/em>. I envy that #4 ranking.<\/p>\n<p>I wore a white lab coat to the Cleveland Clinic and walked the halls . . .<\/p>\n<p>Desk H-70, Pain Management. The patients there don&#8217;t know about real pain. My car has static at 91.5 FM, the jazz station. <em>That<\/em> is pain.<\/p>\n<p>G-50 Dermatology. The doc took full-body naked pics of me. She&#8217;s sick.<\/p>\n<p>C-20, Palliative Care<em>.<\/em> People are dying but look pretty good. I take drugs and don&#8217;t look as good as these folks.<\/p>\n<p>I-20, Eye Clinic. Floaters to my left, floaters to my right. I told the gate attendant at the eye-clinic parking lot, \u201cYou\u2019ve got the most dangerous job in the world because half the people coming out of here are blind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>He said,<\/strong><\/span> \u201cDon\u2019t you know it. This is the third time we\u2019ve fixed the turnstile this month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I envy that man &#8212; the car crashes he must see.<\/p>\n<p>NV-50, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Envy Clinic.<\/span> I\u2019m here for a month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cleveland-clinic.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small><em>[fiction]<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I envy you. Don&#8217;t gloat over that. I envy a lot of people. For instance, I envy the patients at the Cleveland Clinic. They are among the 1,700 sickest people in the world. The Clinic is the 4th-best hospital in the country, according to US News &amp; World Report. I envy that #4 ranking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30922"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31366,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions\/31366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}