The food they serve in hospitals is revenge for the medical care they give in
restaurants.
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From: Walter Gilbert <[email protected]>
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:44:53
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Great news about the surgery, sorry to hear about the food.
Could be that's their way of discouraging lengthy hospital stays and
discharge appeals.
But, hey ... even a crappy Thanksgiving will seem like a relative
cornucopia of epicurean treasures after all that.
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On 11/23/2010 7:53 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
> Made it successfully through my surgery and have recovered enough to
> be on my own again. I'm not experiencing any real pain post-op, and
> just a low level irritation from the catheter. That's supposed to come
> out about a week from now, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it
> until then.
>
> The people at the VA Hospital in Durham, NC were wonderful. The only
> complaint I have is with the food and I don't blame the Durham VAMC
> for that.
>
> They closed down the hospital kitchen a couple of years back and the
> food is out-sourced to some company up in Virginia. Cooked twice a
> week, trucked in & held in storage until heated to serve to the
> patients. It was the most god-awful tasting and smelling crap I have
> ever encountered, including airline food.
>
> Although, I think it's the same catering company.
>
> Anyway, the taste and smell was so bad I'd start vomiting every time I
> tried to eat. I finally managed to choke down a few tiny bites and
> figured out to hang on to the juice pack & crackers.
>
> I'd make it a part of the contract for this sort of outsourced
> catering that the corporate executives and board board of directors of
> the company doing the catering be required to eat their every meal
> from the menus they provide to the VA.
>
> Bet the quality would improve drastically. PDQ!
>
>
> Anyway, I'm up and around and more or less mobile and on the way back
> to normal. Gonna close this right now, gotta go chase some kids off my
> lawn. ;-D
>
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