tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post339735640328261335..comments2024-02-18T01:56:38.508-06:00Comments on M.D.O.D.: (Repost) Acadmics on Obamacare911DOChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06466669111561150174noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-69975819378858566122012-07-17T07:16:43.449-05:002012-07-17T07:16:43.449-05:00Disturbing Anecdote:
When Alanis hit the charts ...Disturbing Anecdote:<br /> When Alanis hit the charts in 95' I was at the Pensacola O-club(yes, the one from "Top Gun")enjoying a few Brew-ski's with America's best, when Alanis popped up on the 32 inch Big Screen...<br /> "Hey!" I exclaimed,<br /> "Thats the chick from Nickelodeon's "You can't do that on Television!"<br /> And everyone moved away from me at the bar........<br /> Um, you see, cause Alanis had been on that show in 1987, when she was 12...<br /> Blow me, it was a funny show.<br /><br />FrankFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-53443967129538671862012-07-16T09:14:43.081-05:002012-07-16T09:14:43.081-05:00In fact, the irony of the Alanis song is that it i...In fact, the irony of the Alanis song is that it is not, properly speaking, about "irony", rather, it is about a series of unfortunate events.... "it's like rain on your wedding day" for instance... Unfortunate, but not ironic... Which makes the song rather comically ironic. <br /><br />And Frank, you are right about the aspirin, if the govt. manufactures it, one tablet will cost ten dollars.911DOChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466669111561150174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-6067528573099637612012-07-15T06:38:48.751-05:002012-07-15T06:38:48.751-05:00@9-11
Aspirin?
ENTERIC Coated Aspirin?
Stuff ain&#...@9-11<br />Aspirin?<br />ENTERIC Coated Aspirin?<br />Stuff ain't cheap, OK it is, but projected over the 10 years required by the CBO, we're talkin bout some real money...<br />OK, probably less than Michelle Obama pays in a week for her Afro-Sheen, but still...<br />And thats the problem, once people get free Aspirin, they'll want free Tylenol, and Free Benadryl, and next thing there's a 15 Trillion Dollar deficit.<br />and do we really need high paid therapists to teach Grandpa how to drool out on the corner of his mouth?<br />OK, that was cruel, even by my lower than a Snake's belly in a Wagun Rut (HT Dan Rather)"standards.<br /><br />Frank "I'm bein Ironic, like Alanis" DrackmanFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-58355096820810518572012-07-14T18:19:50.639-05:002012-07-14T18:19:50.639-05:00I have no doubt there will be rationing. There wil...I have no doubt there will be rationing. There will HAVE to be. There will be rationing of doctors (most folks will be seen by PAs and NPs, and there will be rationing of intensive care. But to say that strokes will not be treated makes no sense. The treatment for survived stokes is cheap... Rehab and aspirin is usually all there is to it.911DOChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466669111561150174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-54057954058173870842012-07-14T16:46:59.521-05:002012-07-14T16:46:59.521-05:00Recently, I was provided rumors via a business pro...Recently, I was provided rumors via a business professional and a nurse about what can be treated and what can't be treated in the future. One of the statements was "if you have a stroke at 50 years old or older, you will not receive treatment." My mother is 65 years old, owns her own business and works 80 hours plus a week. To say to if you are older than 50, we should axe you, is unnecessary. Luckily for me, I have contacts in a 3rd country that has little government regulation. They are missionaries with a ton of doctors from America, and a crew that can build a hospital. I suspect I will live in Haiti, Congo or somewhere else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-73813875545216809682012-07-06T09:59:16.828-05:002012-07-06T09:59:16.828-05:00@ SCRN
thats why I quit Boy Scouts as a "...@ SCRN<br /> thats why I quit Boy Scouts as a "Tenderfoot", Football in 9th grade, Baseball in 10th(OK, I got cut in 11th)and I'm so anti-social I make the Una-bomber look like Stuart Smalley...<br /> and I'd like to apologize for the agregious in-sensitive error in my previous post...<br /> it was Al Green's "LET's stay together"<br /><br />FrankFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-55427055886629261182012-07-06T08:08:28.145-05:002012-07-06T08:08:28.145-05:00But Frank,
Us girls have always had our suspicion...But Frank, <br />Us girls have always had our suspicions about "clubs" that are male exclusive being a disguise for that other thing... <br /><br />Football,SEALs,Boy Scouts,Priests, etc. Any guy thing that involves some kind of secret meeting place and a secret handshake.<br /><br />-SCRNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-53477084304883505452012-07-05T18:38:52.605-05:002012-07-05T18:38:52.605-05:00A hot enigma?
-SCRN :)A hot enigma?<br /><br />-SCRN :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-20850412883239258492012-07-05T16:49:06.978-05:002012-07-05T16:49:06.978-05:00Andrew,
you need to 'feel' more and think...Andrew, <br />you need to 'feel' more and think less. <br /><br />SCRN, <br />I have no idea what to make of you. <br /><br />Grumpy, <br />you have completely lost me. I made no allusions except to things you said yourself. <br /><br />Margaret Thatcher saves the UK from spiraling into oblivion and she's hated. yup, that's about right.911DOChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466669111561150174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-43431098234137094992012-07-05T05:54:24.210-05:002012-07-05T05:54:24.210-05:00@ Grumpy
You're an XX???
I knew British ...@ Grumpy<br /> You're an XX???<br /> I knew British women tended to the homely side, but Great Ceasar's Ghost man!<br /> Anyways, my Vas Deferens went DB Cooper in the 90's, and I'm still shootin blanks some 14 years later..<br /> Pretty good considerin it was the "Surgeons" 4th procedure, you know, See One, Do One, Teach One, Fuck up One..<br /> I know, a Scrotal Hematoma's a well known complication, and it was sort of fun walkin around like a mutant hybrid of John Holmes/Chester for a week...<br /><br />FrankFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-2404530513781387052012-07-04T16:54:43.464-05:002012-07-04T16:54:43.464-05:00Andrew M Garland, OK, I have introspected. Now wha...Andrew M Garland, OK, I have introspected. Now what? You were still rude in your reply to me. Nothing changes that. I made no appeals and I had already explained why the report was bad as part of this thread - you can see it, it is the first comment here.<br />Re your comment at 2:05 to SCRN. A patient was taken off the pathway and recovered - wow - the whole point is that patients can recover and they can be taken off the pathway and they can recover. They are assessed to allow this, they are not just ignored and left to die. Oh and before you ask what my reference for this is, I have used the pathway and watched patients improve and get transferred out of our department. I have also seen other patients die peacefully, pain free and with their families around them.<br /><br />911, as usual you resort to abuse - I am again a communist, yes I got the allusion and yes I do know what it refers to. A relativist? Why not say I am an athiest and therefore have no fear for my soul. It would be more accurate.<br />Death by committee? Never said that, I used the word team, different meaning. Pushing 10mgs Morphine would be called murder in the UK, not sure what you call it in US.<br /><br />Barb, Margaret Thatcher is one of the most hated politicians in this country and is the reason that Conservatives - her party - are unelectable in Scotland. The picture I use is of an actor called Richard Wilson in the character of Victor Meldrew a well known grumpy pensioner from a UK sit com.<br /><br />Frank, I think I love you man. Will you have my children?<br /><br />Happy 4th July.GrumpyRNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774717062401988853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-68259898652289146702012-07-04T15:08:40.663-05:002012-07-04T15:08:40.663-05:00Andrew,
You often attempt naive sensationalism in...Andrew, <br />You often attempt naive sensationalism instead of educated, or just honest personal opinion.<br /><br />-SCRNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-61621996166353513472012-07-04T14:23:41.799-05:002012-07-04T14:23:41.799-05:00Eww! Eww! Eww!
Mr Kot-Tair!!!!!
Barb punked Grumpy...Eww! Eww! Eww!<br />Mr Kot-Tair!!!!!<br />Barb punked Grumpy with the O-Word!...<br />good call though, I attributed his stupid Hat/Sour demeaner to his NHS-treated Prostrate Cancer, if cutting someone's balls off really counts as "Treatment"...<br />Or maybe it's those old school Mercurrial Diuretics, none of that fancy HCTZ for the Queen's subjects...<br />and @ Andrew M. Garland, (if that really is your name)<br />did anyone ever tell you you're a C-Blocker?<br />We've got 2 Chicks just beggin to talk about their sex lives, and you wanta talk End of Life Issues? <br />End your own life, for cryin out loud...<br /><br />FrankFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-1775369816962821462012-07-04T14:05:23.371-05:002012-07-04T14:05:23.371-05:00Anonymous 10:43 AM, July 04,
Is that the best you...Anonymous 10:43 AM, July 04,<br /><br />Is that the best you've got? You find my link irritating, and your explanation is that I am uneducated. I understand why you want to remain anonymous.<br /><br />The article I linked is by a doctor in a British hospital, talking about the breezy way a man with pnumonia was put on a treatment track to death by denial of food and water. He took that man off the Liverpool protocol and he recovered.<br /><br />But, if you say so, that is all crazy-talk bluster. If you know of some more information useful to understand that incident, then please present it. I have an open mind.Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-4672715059349785222012-07-04T13:07:44.108-05:002012-07-04T13:07:44.108-05:00Grumpy RN (walking the wrong pathway) - "no O...Grumpy RN (walking the wrong pathway) - "no ONE is to blame", there is no blame, it is a consensus decision."<br /><br />Ah.... ever hear of a nice lady named Margaret Thatcher? She believed "Consensus is the absence of leadership." <br /><br />And said "To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects." <br /><br />Now I understand why you're so grumpy...judging by your picture you're not far from that ole pathway yourself huh? Not to worry I'm sure the consensus will be in your favor.<br /><br />Happy 4th of July to everyone in the U.S. <br /><br />BarbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-86085177062425252542012-07-04T10:43:02.723-05:002012-07-04T10:43:02.723-05:00Sheesh. Thank God for Frank.
FYI, I decided not ...Sheesh. Thank God for Frank. <br /><br />FYI, I decided not to cut my hair - like anybody cares about what's really important these days.<br /><br />And, gotta side with Grumpy re: Andrew. <br />Andrew you can be sooooooo irritating because you clearly haven't spent the time educating yourself. Your points are always lost in bluster and crazy-ass links to the freak network.<br /><br />Now PeggyU has some concerns and she speaks from experiences that give her the ability to see how fluid things are in healthcare - getting second opinions, etc. but always having the choice to do that, and then retaining the ability to make the ultimate decisions regarding care.<br /><br />If you want choice, you have to seek information/education -- when it's serious, it's going to be hearing very scary stuff, stuff nobody wants to talk about.<br /><br />-SCRNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-8688214007439346442012-07-04T04:47:42.506-05:002012-07-04T04:47:42.506-05:00OK, OK, time to break up this Circle Jerk with a l...OK, OK, time to break up this Circle Jerk with a little humour(British Spelling for Grumpy)<br /><br /> My youngest daughter was "studying"* for the SATs recently, and asked me what "Dualism" was...<br /> "Its when you do a #1 and a #2 at the same time" I answered<br /><br /> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA<br /><br />*studying as in reviewing old tests, key words, trivial facts, none of that gay "Concepts" CrapFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-88150629938179797942012-07-03T17:27:03.377-05:002012-07-03T17:27:03.377-05:00Dear Andrew,
Very nicely framed logical riposte. ...Dear Andrew, <br />Very nicely framed logical riposte. But remember sir, we are arguing with a relativist... one who, if asked to say if he agreed more with the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade or that of Pol Pot would find a comfortable place between the two and defend it with all rigor. He's the one who thinks decisions on life and death are properly ruled on by committee. That's when I stopped talking to him directly, because he is the nurse who saves that extra 10mg of morphine to push to 'hasten the inevitable' and then pats himself on the back for preventing suffering. IOW, he's a useful idiot.911DOChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466669111561150174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-30271641574298767782012-07-03T17:09:08.815-05:002012-07-03T17:09:08.815-05:00To GrumpyRN,
I'm rude to you? I suggest some ...To GrumpyRN,<br /><br />I'm rude to you? I suggest some introspection on your part.<br /><br />Your reply to me was in its entirety, "You are using the same sensationalist report that I have already rubbished."<br /><br />That is an appeal to your status, so I wondered just what gives you the status to pronounce on matters without link or explanation.<br /><br />If you want to describe why the report is bad, then that is a discussion. When you speak from on high, then it is you who is condescending and rude.Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-46576684156952096832012-07-03T16:14:27.285-05:002012-07-03T16:14:27.285-05:00Andrew M Garland, "Should I know who you are?...Andrew M Garland, "Should I know who you are?" That's very rude of you.GrumpyRNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774717062401988853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-71660373269296340762012-07-03T05:38:56.257-05:002012-07-03T05:38:56.257-05:00@ Peggy U
You have a Cousin in the Landscape Busin...@ Peggy U<br />You have a Cousin in the Landscape Business too???Frank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-26400598332087410852012-07-02T22:25:06.222-05:002012-07-02T22:25:06.222-05:00To GrumpyRN 4:37 AM, July 02
Should I know who yo...To GrumpyRN 4:37 AM, July 02<br /><br />Should I know who you are? You have already rubbished the sensational account which I referred to. Sorry, I missed your commentary, or surely I would not have referred to that report.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this leaves me in the dark which you think I live in. What is wrong with that report? Possibly you have an argument and a link. Otherwise, I'll just rely on your reputation.Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-8143723607125772782012-07-02T22:15:27.837-05:002012-07-02T22:15:27.837-05:00Like it or not, there ARE people who would hasten ...Like it or not, there ARE people who would hasten the demise of other people who they don't believe meet their "quality of life" standard. <br /><br />My cousin, who is mentally retarded but sufficiently functional to hold a landscape maintenance job, had a health crisis and required a ventilator. Some of his caregivers pressed my aunt and uncle to remove him and "let him go" peacefully. Instead they followed the advice of a pulmonologist, who felt he would recover given sufficient time. He did, and was transferred to a nursing home eventually to continue his recuperation. He is home now, and they are hoping he will be back to work in a couple more weeks.PeggyUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-49477484738090003032012-07-02T21:53:12.860-05:002012-07-02T21:53:12.860-05:00Grumpy - Yeah, we're all going to die eventual...Grumpy - Yeah, we're all going to die eventually, but I have a problem with your saying that if someone who is on the LCP shows signs of recovery, the protocol will be discontinued. How does someone who is weak hope to recover if he is denied food and water? How does he communicate and how do you notice improvement in someone who is heavily sedated? <br /><br />When my time comes, I will go ... but allowing someone to dehydrate is just plain cruel, IMO, even if you ease your conscience by drugging the shit out of him.<br /><br />Not speaking as a medical expert - just as a human being with a conscience.PeggyUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021163.post-8619023557403619032012-07-02T05:34:56.495-05:002012-07-02T05:34:56.495-05:00@ SCRN, LONG, LONG, LONG,
except the ones o...@ SCRN, LONG, LONG, LONG,<br /> except the ones on your(the collective "you" not YOU) upper lip/legs.<br /> And I like a little armpit hair, and in that other place, lets just say I came of age in the 70's Nome Sane? Not sayin I want an Amazon Jungle down there, just evidence that you've (collective again) passed Menarche...<br /> And short hair just makes you look like one of the Manson Chicks, whoa, I'm dating myself, like Sinead Oconnor, umm like Natalie Portman, and it deletes that sexy "hair flip" move from your playbook. <br /><br />@ Grumpy: Attack the Messenger much?<br /> Its not my fault your Country, Oh, I'm sorry, KINGDOM, has an Ugly Queen, bad food, unreliable cars, dental hygiene that even Russians joke about, and The Clash/Beatles/Who/Oasis couldn't carry Def Lepard's massive jockstraps. <br /><br />FrankFrank Drackmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846499693803159688noreply@blogger.com