slowpoke

And I know some of you remember the Looney Tunes cartoon mouse Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all of Mexico, “¡Arriba Arriba! ¡Ándale!” and his lethargic, useless sidekick, Slowpoke Rodriguez: “Sorry, Señor Pussycat, I can’t play wit’ ‘chu no more, it’s time for my siesta.”

It revealed that gaps in state law and slowpoke regulators allowed health care workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.

“This is a very mortifying situation,” Fisher Ames of Massachusetts said then, at Federal Hall in New York City, while waiting for his slowpoke colleagues.

“Oh, I’ll order for you, slowpoke.”

But if your heart is a slowpoke the rest of the time, your health could be at risk.