druff to what extent do you think running a watering hole for aging white nationalists is impacting your physical well being?
druff to what extent do you think running a watering hole for aging white nationalists is impacting your physical well being?
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
I whistled at a white woman today.
Doing MRI in 90 minutes.
Fortunately it's a foot MRI so I won't have my head in the tube. This is also a time where it helps to be tall.
Still, I hate shit like this, so I will be breaking out the Xanax for this one. This will actually be the first MRI I have since my psychological issues started 3 years ago. My last MRI was in 2015, also on my foot, when I had a sprained ankle that wasn't healing for some reason. That MRI ended up not telling me much, other than that they could see it still had some kind of problem. It took 9 months (!!), but one day I woke up and the ankle was abruptly better, and it was never a problem since. It was never medically explained why it took 9 months to stop hurting, nor how it got better so abruptly. At one point I figured it would hurt me the rest of my life.
I do remember that MRI was pretty easy, though, as far as MRIs go, since only half my body was in the tube.
Hope you get better soon. I can empathize. My dad tripped on the carpet had to go to emergency room a week ago. Being transferred to a rehab facility for on month. Broke his hip got operated on.
Look on the bright side, Druff. It's a pain in an appendage. Not life threating stuff. You'll figure it out (yes, it sucks from a quality of life point of view, but, it'll work out). Get better soon.
Since you're such a strong defender of the current system of healthcare (privatized).
The healthcare system that gives the USA the distinction of being the only country in the developed world that does not provide health care to all of its citizens.
The healthcare system that consistently produces these results. Pre Covid
A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.
Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
WTF!
You strongly opposed Sen Sanders plan to address these problems.
I'd argue the minor errors that you experienced are totally standard and you shouldn't withhold payment.
I hope you're joking about "minor errors".
The only thing they did for me was suggest I take a medication which duplicates one I was already taking, and likely would have caused me harm if I followed their instructions.
This was after they had failed to take a list of medications I was on, which is super standard to do.
I also didn't see a doctor (or PA) the entire time, until I was discharged.
Fail all around. Even the hospital's own administrator told me that this shit was pretty bad, provided my story was accurate (which she's now investigating).
Regarding your other points, medical errors would not decrease if the government was in charge of healthcare. In fact, I believe it would get worse, and for sure we'd see a huge reduction in availability. I got into a rheumatologist within 1 day, and got an MRI & ultrasound the following day. In countries with socialized medicine, I'd be waiting 4+ months for each.
"You're not dying, so you can wait!"
No thanks.
No doubt it's frustrating when you believe the worst is happening but triage is ER personnel's main priority in dealing with the general public.
Whining loudly does not trump health problems more severe than yours.
Even in private pay systems I believe slipping an ER nurse a hundo won't get you anywhere
poppin a xan just cuz u have to stick ur leg in the MRI tube?
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