Page 2 - SFHN0419finalSP.qxp_Page layout

Publisher’s Note
A Special Thank Publisher’s Note

You to the March

2019 Host of the Travels with “Charley

South Florida and the Blonde”

Healthcare Normally I wouldn’t dare utter a blonde joke around Carol — since we all
know (and accept) she’s the real brains of the outfit! However, we just took
Networking Group a much-needed vacation to the Panama Canal and I can honestly say I
thought I was cruising with the original dizzy blonde. Like many very intel-
ligent people (I have no idea what that feels like), Carol is like a walking
encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus, except for a few total blanks … and
included in those blank brain cells is a basic understanding of engineering
and how things work mechanically (picture a telephone, a mechanical tool,
and especially the much renowned lock system of the Panama Canal).
VITAS And it wasn’t for a lack of trying, I can honestly say since we went through the locks twice and even got to watch an
COMMUNITY LIFE oncoming Panamax ship for extra visual reinforcement. But she just couldn’t understand why the ship wasn’t resting on the
& INPATIENT bottom of the cement lock or how or why there were locks at different levels. I knew we were in trouble when she kept won-
dering why they couldn’t just build another Suez Canal in Panama. In her words, “Why go to all the trouble of locks, when
CENTER AT they could just use a bulldozer?” After an hour of trying to explain about the Panamanian climate’s
effect on the land and the difference between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, I gave up.
DELRAY BEACH But the final blow came when the ship’s Expedition Navigator started explaining about the
fact that when going thru the Canal, east is west and west is east. Well, out of everyone (and
I mean everyone in the Felix family), Carol is the ONLY one who can actually navigate using
For information about the sun and when asked for directions gives them using east, west, north and south as
our next meeting of opposed to right and left. Imagine her consternation and inability to understand how that
could possible happen.
SFHNG,
So in some ways it was a relief to finish traversing the Canal and get back to our lounge
please email chairs, books, magazines, cribbage board, and buffets. It’s one of the few times I felt vindicated
in saying, “Don’t worry your pretty little head about it!”
charles@

southfloridahospitalnews.com
Charles Felix

You can reach Charles Felix at
Charles@southfloridahospitalnews.com
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

2 April 2019 southfloridahospitalnews.com South Florida Hospital News