Oregon (another planet indeed) my patients featured on ABC TV

[Guest guest]

Some friends/patients of mine will be featured on wife swap this

coming Monday Aug 6th at 8:00 pm Pacific time. I did their physicals

to get them prepared for the show and sent my invoice (not a HCFA)

to ABC TV and they paid if right away! It was very funny to be paid

not by the patient, or their insurance company (uninsured) but by

a major TV network.

Check out how the eco-friendly live and how they (likely) get

embarassed on TV while trying to get their message across to the

mainstream. Here's what they have to say about it...

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Bolman and Rios of Maitreya EcoVillage will be featured

on ABC Televison's Wife Swap " reality " TV show on Monday, August 6.

It was the better part of a year ago when an email went around saying

that a " reality " TV show called Wife Swap was looking for an ecovillage

family to participate in their show. Presumably, the ecovillage family

would have it's wife/mother swapped with that of a highly consumeristic,

environmentally clueless family - and thus the sparks would fly making

for titillating entertainment. Just on a lark, sent out a two

sentence email. The production company got back in touch with her

within five minutes and they stayed in touch with us until the eight

person production crew showed up in April. It was quite an experience.

If you want to learn more, you'll have to watch the episode this coming

Monday, August 6 on ABC Television.

Rush/Rios-Bolman

Monday @ 8:00 pm This week in, a woman whose dogs come first in

the household swaps lives with an eco-friendly wife who takes recycling

to the extreme by re-using her own urine for fertilizer, on " Wife Swap, "

MONDAY, AUGUST 6 (8:00-9:00 p.m.) on WOTV 4. Each week from

across the country, two families with very different values are chosen

to take part in a two-week long challenge. The wives from these two

families exchange husbands, children and lives (but not bedrooms) to

just what it's like to live another woman's life. It's a mind-blowing

experiment that often ends up changing their lives forever.

Doesn't that make ya want to take our IMP message to reality TV??

Thanks for all the NYC feedback. I'll be calling/emailing offlist to those

who offered their help in getting me reaquainted with the outside world.

I'll be sure to bring my passport. Thanks Lou!

Pamela

Pamela Wible, MD

Family & Community Medicine, LLC

3575 st. #220

Eugene, OR 97405

roxywible@...

www.idealmedicalpractice.org

" You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something build a new model that makes the

existing model obsolete " - Buckminster Fuller