Doctor Samedi Will See You Now

For a long time now I have been studying the amazing similarities between Chinese acupuncture and Haitian voodoo. It is extraordinary that two such diverse cultures, so geographically distant, should both develop systems of healing that involves sticking huge pins into things. And there are other correspondences, for example: the voodoo priest has his vacant-eyed zombies and the acupuncturist has his  deluded disciples who sit on the floor in felt shoes while listening to endless, wheedling expositions of inscrutable concepts like ying and yang. If only these two ancient arts could combine their collected wisdom. Surely it would be simple matter for the acupuncturist to make a wax doll of his patient and skewer this image instead of painfully penetrating the body of an actual person. Using these animatistic techniquies, patients would not even need to be in the same room as the acupuncturist to receive the precision treatment that they require. If you ask me, Chaitian Acupuncture (CA) will make death panels a thing of the past.

Comments

[Brian]

Boy you do'd this one. I'm sending a Request for Quotation to my Chinese wax doll factory right now. How many containers do you think I should import? Will you have the CHaitian pin medics ready? I think I can contract under Facebook's advert policy to gather up a prospect list of 10,000 customers, er, patients a week, Do you think, as I do, that we'll fix Medicare with this? I'm calling Gingrich. He oughta be darn excited.

[american fez]

I do think we could fix Medicare with is, and build cultural bridges also. Supply the pins and the dolls and the patients will come.
Unfortunately I doubt that any of these things is on Newt's agenda.

[Jonty Kershaw]

That's hilarious. I did one of my doctorates on the similarities between Voodoo and traditional Taoism. I never made the "sticking pins in things" connection.

[Laurent]

Then again, Newt Gingrich is a pinhead.

[Giric]

Unfortunately with all great idea's certain concerns come to mind, that being our current medical establishment. They being what they are, are sure to put pins in wrong places like children playing the game of pin the tail on the donkey. When you needed the pin in the right place it will just wind up being a pain in the... asking directions for blind mans bluff.

[Giric]

But I almost forgot, why pin it when you can pill it?! Oxycodone or Oxymoron, both fine purveyors of virtual reality.