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2010-12-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Beavis 2010-12-31 10:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 he must be really dicked off.

Posted by swanimote 2010-12-31 12:25|| 2010-12-31 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Another victory for revolutionary Swedish feminism.

Posted by gromky 2010-12-31 12:56|| 2010-12-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Coming to an Obamacare Hospital near you in 2013!

(when Obummercare kicks in).

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-31 13:10|| 2010-12-31 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Stories like this prove nothing except that human beings are fallible, something we all already know. Contrast this recent medical horror story: "Sacramento girl Needed amputations after five hour wait at emergency room"
Nobody bats 1.000 in the game of life. Nobody.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-31 13:25|| 2010-12-31 13:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The reason you wait five hours in an emergency room is because all the other 'emergency' rooms have closed in one hospital after another. When the redistributionists declared that no one could be turned away yet provided no fiscal compensation, the only hospitals which could fiscally keep them running were state and county facilities at the taxpayers' expense. So, now instead of the patient load being distributed among many, every one goes to the same emergency room and we wait. The poor still end up at the same state and county facilities they were shuffled off to before the great 'feel good' Socialist moment, but now they too get to wait with the resultant complications. Of course our Congresscritters are exempted with facilities set aside for their care. "Do you know who I am?"

Posted by P2kontheroad 2010-12-31 14:14|| 2010-12-31 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Circumcision in infancy (or even later if you;re brave enough) would have likely prevented this.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-12-31 14:25|| 2010-12-31 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Great Moments in Socialized Medicine

I suspect that a new thread has been born.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-31 14:35|| 2010-12-31 14:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Should force him to stand a bit closer, which he might have already been doing at his age. Frankly, I see no other operational impediments.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-31 14:56|| 2010-12-31 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 On the upside, no worried about in-flight tabasco saucecapades for Mr. Enuch, huh?

Posted by USN,Ret 2010-12-31 16:51|| 2010-12-31 16:51|| Front Page Top

#10

Nobody bats 1.000 in the game of life. Nobody.

Socialized medicine bats .100.

And, BTW -- why the hell don't the people who want socialized medicine emigrate to a place that already has it?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-12-31 17:22|| 2010-12-31 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 why the hell don't the people who want socialized medicine emigrate to a place that already has it?

Because most such places require more of a prospective immigrant than a pulse. Germany requires German blood. Japan requires Japanese blood. Australia and Canada require specific skills and/or professional qualifications. And so on...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-12-31 17:57|| 2010-12-31 17:57|| Front Page Top

#12 And so on....

...along with a boatload of money!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-31 18:04|| 2010-12-31 18:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't forget the number of illegal aliens who are using the ED as their [unpaid] Doctor's office. As a result the ED often does not have the funds to hire the staff and Doctors - so you end up waiting for 5 hours.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-31 18:11|| 2010-12-31 18:11|| Front Page Top

#14 an acquaintance of the wife's (from High School days) has been known to wait till 5:01 so that she can take kiddo to ER for sore throat/etc because "the urgent care or regular doc have a (2 or 3 dollar) copay and ER is free (medicaid)" seems the ER local to her sends non emergent cases to the urgent care at end of building except when they are closed.

Many of not most of our welfare types will use the ER as a family doc because of a less than $5 copay.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-12-31 22:37|| 2010-12-31 22:37|| Front Page Top

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