Bureaucracy in medicine

[Maverick]

A woman from Los Angeles , CA who was a tree hugger, a democrat, and an
 anti-hunter, purchased a piece of timberland, near Colville , WA .
 
 There was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She
 wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to
 climb the big tree. As she neared the top she encountered a spotted owl
 that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree
 to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain,
 she hurried to Mt.Carmel ER to see a Doctor. She told him she was an
 environmentalist, a democrat, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get
 all the splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience
 and then told her to go wait in the examining room and he would see if he
 could help her. She sat and waited three hours before the doctor
 reappeared. The angry woman demanded, What took you so long?
 He smiled and then told her, Well, I had to get permits from the
 Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of
 Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a
 recreational area. I'm sorry,....... but they turned me down.

[Dadsguns]

 

[Penguin]

 

[Maverick]

That story was factually real as well penguin. 

[thundabooge]

 

[Flatbar]

See Rule #2

[Bradman]

That's a funny but likely untrue story. No doctor that I know would pull that stunt.

Here's a funny but true story. I was with my father on his mountain place with a logger deciding how to remove some trees that had been blown down in a wind storm. We got to talking about the logging industry and he told us a story about a young lady fresh out of college with a degree in forestry or something like that. She was bent on saving bambi and all of his animal friends from the evil corporations. Her job was to tell the loggers which trees to remove and which ones to save. While the loggers were working on removing some trees she told them that they had to leave some branches that ran up from the ground and leaned against the trees. When asked by the loggers why that was, she said, and she was serious, that the limbs made it easy for the old and sick squirrels to climb the trees. She didn't understand why the loggers were rolling around the ground laughing.

[Shuffler]

See Rule #2

[Maverick]

Somebody call flatbar a waaaaammbulance. 

[DYNAMITE]

See Rule #2

it was a joke.