House Calls

I'm pretty old, but even I don’t remember a day when doctors made house calls, like they often do on old television shows. I think that Hollywood must have just made up house calling doctors so as to make things easier for script writers. Because if doctors really made house calls, some cripples would never go anywhere. There are a lot of cripples who really look forward to their doctor appointments because that is their big chance to get out of the house. Hell, some of them might even turn it into a big social event by also having lunch at the hospital food court while they’re at it. I imagine that there used to be a lot more cripples like that back in the days when there weren’t that many transportation options for us. Back then, about the only way that you could get a ride somewhere (if you couldn’t drive and/or couldn’t afford a cripple-accessible vehicle), would probably be to have Medicaid pay for a Medi-car to take you to a doctor appointment. That’s how it used to be here in Chicago. So I would fake like I had a doctor appointment and I’d get dropped off at a hospital or something and watch through the window until I was sure that the Medi-car was good and gone and then I‘d run around all day doing stuff besides going to the doctor. And then I’d hustle back to the hospital before the Medi-car got back to give me a ride home. And that would be my big day out for the week! But nowadays, if a cripple lives in a place where there is abundant public transportation and enough decent weather, all that they have to do is go to the bus stop or train platform if they need a ride somewhere. But some cripples still live lives that revolve around their doctor appointments for a bunch of reasons. If we take that away from them, what else will they have to look forward to? (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH