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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from exposure to the sprawling UW health care system as he retrieves Phyllis from her hip replacement surgery, concludes that the modern hospital may be both the ultimate point of civilization’s advance and the most complex technological structure short of a trip to Mars.
The keeper’s contact with the UW Health goes back to the days when it was primarily the old hospital with the curved driveway off University Avenue. Even in those days it was seen as the best statewide hope for dealing with invading maladies and misfortune.
The UW Carbon Cancer Center’s Dr. Rose is the representative hero on Phyllis’s past health charts, and now Dr. Anderson gets on her records with the new hip installation.
It would be easier for the keeper and Phyllis if UW Health were still restricted to the University Ave. location but they will gladly go to whatever of the many varied specialty points they are directed to.
UW Health and other similar health venues make up one of the real plusses of Madison and Wisconsin living.
Photo by Bill Stokes