A dog bites man story about American health-care
Menckens Ghost
Six-thirty on a Sunday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona. My wife and I are on our two-hour walk and far from home. Cell phone rings. Our 18-year-old son Chris is on the phone to tell us that he was out running in the neighborhood and was bitten by a dog that was being walked by its owner.
We tell him to get the owner’s name, phone number and the dog’s shot record, and then to go home and wash out the wound and put antiseptic on it.
After doing that, he calls back and thinks he might need to see a doctor. Thanks to American health-care, we are able to tell him that
