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Skriven 2011-03-22 14:13:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB ACKLEY
Ärende: Names will never hurt me.
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-=> BOB ACKLEY wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

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 BA> One problem is the fact that Americans simply don't accept the fact
 BA> that they are going to die.  Where, when and of what doesn't matter,
 BA> it's going to happen.

In my current circumstances that cannot happen soon enough.

 WC> Why did it take over 20 years for any medical _professional_ to accept
 WC> the fact that the pain I'm in results in a 94 point elevation in my
 WC> systolic blood pressure despite being repeatedly told by me that that
 WC> was the case?

 BA> I don't know.  I'm not a medical professional (although I do hold a
 BA> degree in health care administration).  One can always find individual
 BA> examples of idiocy in any profession.  

Individual?
I've lost count of them all.
All told I'm in pain.
All told I've low blood pressure when the pain is alleviated. 

 BA> In point of fact there is one
 BA> physician on the staff of the clinic at Offutt AFB that I prefer to NOT
 BA> see.  Note that when I was working in Omaha hospitals I did
 BA> occasionally hear horror stories about idiots with MD degrees.

 WC> During that time I suffered no fewer than four strokes with the last
 WC> being in 2007.

 WC>> Not however due to lack of medical care but due to incompetent
 WC>> medical care.

Really?
How about that unremediated 188/88 blood pressure due to pain?
That's not the highest it's spiked either, that was just the one hospital
stay peak with little but bed rest.

I remind you again once given effective pain relief my blood pressure dropped
to 94/62.
Non-narcotic pain relief.   

 BA>> Obamacare will not fix that and will probably make it worse.


 WC> Interesting.
 WC> Well have to see.

 WC> I'm not yet sufficiently ambulatory to get my current circumstances
 WC> taken care of and given my last three experiences somewhat reluctant
 WC> to once again call an ambulance.

 BA> For most folks it's an expensive taxi ride.  In 2004 the ambulance trip
 BA> from the
 BA> Offutt AFB (former) emergency room to a civilian hospital - about 7
 BA> miles - cost
 BA> over $500.  I could have driven it for a lot less and had my care there
 BA> instead of
 BA> at the (former) AF hospital when I was discharged four days later.

Upon my last emergency room visit via ambulance ride I passed on the
doctors diagnosis from the Saint Petersburg free clinic which I'd gone to 
first to contain costs.

His dianosis was wrong and when that was discovered I was given the bums rush
out of the hospital.

The kicker is I had the correct diagnosis and told the doctor
what I thought I had.
Net result I passed along his incorrect diagnosis and here i lay 
still suffering the very same malady some ten months later.

Next month I hope to obtain a telephone in order to set up a private
doctors appointment with some other private doctor. 

Yes here we are a mere twenty years later and now I'm armed 
with an actual hospital record bearing out what I've maintained 
these last twenty years

ITMT from the second to last trip I had the doctor X-raying my ankle
where he was concerned about some lesion he thinks he sees.

Now what led him to X-ray my ankle when I've got real issues I'll
never know.

I do know he wanted to do a rather expensive CAT scan.

I'll be damned if I'll go for that unneeded procedure with its attendent
high dose ionizing radiation without good cause to suspect anything wrong
and before my pain issue is satisfactorily addressed.

... It is the best of all possible worlds.
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