[teddy bear hospital] just create an illness first

Now here's a great idea:

The Medical Student Association in Iceland launched a project this week by opening a “Teddy Bear Hospital” in Reykjavík suburb Kópavogur with the aim of making children less frightened of doctors and hospital staff.

“Children can bring their teddies to us ... and we will use all the necessary equipment so the teddies can return to their home in good health,” Stefán Ágúst Hafsteinsson, one of the project’s organizers, told Fréttabladid. The Fruit Truck will offer children who visit the medical students with their teddies fresh fruit.

Wonder if it works with pollies? For example, new NHS junior doctors will be ready and waiting and all you have to do is 'create' an illness for Tony, Gordon or the Chipmunk, say anthrax or the bubonic plague, and the NHS will do the rest. After the funerals, the new PM and Deputy can have their turn.

Good game, yes? By the way, you have to be careful with those wild teddies. A teddy bear was implicated in 2,500 trout deaths not so long ago:

State officials [in New Hampshire] say a teddy bear that fell into a pool at a Fish and Game Department hatchery late last year clogged a drain. The clog blocked the flow of oxygen to the pool and suffocated the fish.