Medibank Private - Chinese Medicine As Emergency Care??
anythinglime wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
I don’t know if you sometimes check out the Australian Skeptic website, but one of the features is the ‘Bent Spoon Award’.
Presented annually to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle.
I’ve written about the Awards before - here’s an entry from 2005:
Nominee: Medibank Private
Nominated by: Malcolm Cluett
Date: 22/07/2005
I would like to nominate Medibank Private for the Bent Spoon award.
There is an Medibank Private advertisement that is being screened on TV and in the cinema. It shows an ambulance speeding through city traffic, to the aid of some individual lying on a grassy hill, perhaps stricken with a heart attack. The lights are flashing and the siren wailing.
When the ambulance arrives on the scene, the back doors open to reveal not medics on white coats, but rather a Chinese acupuncturist and an Indian mystic. The interior of the ambulance is suitably decorated.
Yes, apparently if you […]
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