RANT with our Govenor! (Cheyenne, Laramie: buy, live, to move)

[shadowwalker]

I just found out that he is going to Colorado for Orthoscopic Sugery today.
Now all I hear is buy Wyoming, keep the money here, yadda,yadda.
This isn't the first time a person of high profile in the state has went out of state for sugery that is NOT a life threatning deal and can be done here by many competant surgeons statewide.
I don't count the ride time from some place as this is just shoulder sugery.
I think the good Govenor should put his/our money where his mouth is and have it done here. I guess there isn't a good doctor or surgeon in Cheyenne?
This kind of stuff always makes me see red. It's a do as we say, not as we do! Again.

[BennyPhoenix]

Is it possible that where he is going for surgery that the surgeon is a better surgeon than any he can find locally for his particular problem?

[sunsprit]

GEM City has some pretty good, experienced orthopedic surgeons here in Cheyenne and Laramie.

Other than the prestige of a "big name" orthopod in Colorado, there's no reason to go there for rotator cuff surgery.

I'm with the OP ... what's up, Gov?

[Froggie Legs]

When I lived in Wyoming in the late 90's I had an eye condition called Thyroid Eye Disease which caused my eyes to pop out of my head so far that they were brushing my glasses. I saw an optometrist where I lived and asked about surgery to correct it to which he replied "well we have a guy who does traveling cataract surgeries.. perhaps he could have a go at it".. hm. well needless to say it got so bad that I was forced to move back to Minnesota and undergo 7 operations through the Mayo clinic to save my vision. While I'm not saying that the Governors op is as serious as potentially losing eye sight, sometimes people do have to go outside of the local. Even where I live now I have to travel 50 miles one way to see an endocrinologist.

I'll just hope that the WY Governor is well cared for, wherever he chooses to be operated on.

"Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins." - Cheyenne Proverb

[BennyPhoenix]

There are people who leave huge cities like NY or LA to receive better medical care for certain things. Even large cities do not have the best of everything.

[shadowwalker]

This is the guy that says to keep your money in wyoming and don't go to denver,salt lake, billings, rapid city to spend it. Keep it here for Wyoming Jobs! he says. I see when it's him, he dosn't count.
Let me add, if your on workers comp. You play ten kinds of h*ll trying to go out of state and take the states money to another doctor for a operation, this I can attest to. I have seen it time and time again over the years.