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                  Remember when you needed to see a medical specialist and a two week wait seemed like a long time? How about two months? Yep, that's the going rate for the finest the medical world has to offer. Planning on getting sick in December? You better be proactive and book your appointment in October. This is the world we live in today. Maybe we should just bring back Zoltar from Tom Hanks' film Big. He could start working exclusively on medical predictions to help you better manage appointments. Worse comes to worse, he could make his eyes glow so we wake up young forever.

        Is it the aging baby boomer's living longer and flooding the exam rooms? Are doctors stacking their schedule and taking on bigger patient loads just to cash in? Let's not forget the insurance companies and medicare's unfair pay structures that forces physicians to be selective and bog down offices just to compensate.

       Judging by the current course, perhaps it's time to create a new industry. How about Health Market Futures. A high risk/high reward medical portfolio attached to your current plan based specifically on predicting the future health issues of an individual. You invest in yourself. Do you think your more likely to have liver issues rather then kidney? Okay well that's where your money goes. If you guess right and invest early enough, you reap the benefits of the finest care your field has to offer thanks to more capital and a deeper pocket in your invested bracket.  Guess wrong? Just take a number and head to the back of the line buddy. Your about six months away from some quack tossing out educated guesses that you could have most likely found yourself on Web MD.

       Makes us all wish for a simpler time. According to some older gentlemen at my workplace, back in those days doctors made house calls. Sure advancements in medicine keep us living longer but what good are they if your can't even get into the office to see somebody who can prescribe treatment?

             In the mood for some modern artists singing songs of yesterday while we all wait in line? I am. The band Tennis pays a by the numbers homage to my favorite sixties pop outfit, The Zombies, with this subtle and charming rendition of "Tell Her No." Also on tap, Lykke Li tries her hands at an even bigger hit from the times, The Righteous Brothers classic, Unchained Melody. The gentle guitars and understated delivery really captures the spirit of this "love longing" classic with ghostly intensity.

 

Tennis-Tell Her No (The Zombies Cover).mp3

Lykke Li-Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers Cover).mp3