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The Doctor Will See You Now…WRONG….
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The Doctor Will See You Now…WRONG….
Hey Taverneers! It’s been a while. After Trish died, came all the legalists and death merchants. It took a good while to get death certificates and certified copies of our marriage license, because after a loved one dies, you find you can’t even take a leak without first providing some kind of paperwork. It’s like going to the Monty Python Argument Clinic, Abuse Clinic, and Getting Hit on the Head Clinic to get anything done. And the general experience can be summed up by the usual exchange, “We’re very sorry for your loss. Now F%*& off…next please.” But while that explains a portion of my inactivity, there’s another matter, that while it concerns me, in reality, concerns us all. We held a memorial service for Trish on January 20th. As I heat with wood, the week before, I was out splitting firewood, stepped the wrong way, and fell down, landing on my left hip and elbow. It was hard getting up, but I dusted myself off and went on with the chore at hand. By Trish’s service, I was limping pretty good, as I landed hard, and every time I moved, my hip, in very dramatic terms, reminded me of my clumsiness. The pain and mobility issues worsened in the passing weeks, and finally this past Friday I finally went to my family doctor, who promptly sent me for a X-Ray. The X-Ray revealed a possible fracture of the “femoral head” or the ball joint of my hip. An MRI was ordered to confirm whether or not my hip is broken. I wish that was the end of the story. Now the MRI was ordered to take place at the same hospital where Trish was. I got a call yesterday stating that the nearest available MRI appointment was March 6. So I’m hobbling around for another month waiting on a bloody MRI. Keep in mind, this is at one of the largest teaching hospitals in the Southeast. The population of my town is 10,000 people. This hospital employs 20,000; it’s the largest employer in our state. I didn’t write this to elicit sympathy, but to point out how corporate medicine is conducting its operations on the socialist model. I’ve had friends in England who have had to wait weeks or months for routine procedures. I think they are getting us used to the idea of socialized medicine, because that’s what’s coming. I would say we’re experiencing 3rd World medicine, except I’ve visited hospitals in Southern Mexico, and clinics in Honduras, and, while they might not have all the modern technology of our advanced, state of the art 1st World medical facilities, they are much more compassionate in their treatment of people. Corporations are buying up hospitals and medical practices with alarming frequency. Healing the sick and patient care is taking second place to numbers being in the black on the ledger sheet. And the nurses and doctors are having to try to care for the sick and injured with one hand tied behind their back, if not both of them. I may have said this before, but when Trish was in this state of the art, prestigious, large teaching hospital, several times I had to bring her medicines from home because the hospital didn’t have any in their pharmacy. We’re talking about meds we regularly pick up from our little home town drug store, not rare, experimental pharmaceuticals. Hopefully none of you will have to heed this warning, but keep it in the back of your mind just in case. Big corporate medicine is not your friend.
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And, don’t forget, all the medical services that were either preempted or denied due to Covid. That wasn’t just bad judgment stemming from fear or bewilderment of a supposed “pandemic;” that was a test run for what’s to come.
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A friend of mine lives in Vancouver. Her husband broke his ankle on a hike, and she was SO HAPPY that, thanks to the wonderful Canadian healthcare system, he was able to be seen and taken care of in only 5 days. For real; she was not being sarcastic, she was happy & feeling blessed. Good solid liberal, of course.
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Welcome back, Dana! Sorry to hear about your latest setback. Speedy recovery!
All of what you stated about the healthcare system heading towards socialized medicine is true. Financially, the current system is unsustainable where the calls for social insurance will get louder and louder. Remember when Health Maintenance Organizations were introduced to prevent the progression of chronic illnesses yet were used by Providers to over utilize the system (order more visits and more unnecessary tests) and over prescribe big pharma medicines that many patients take for the rest of their lives? Obama/Biden/Pelosi helped to accelerate the slide to socialist medicine with the Un-Affordable Care Act where you pay more in premiums yet are subjected to coverage limits, Coinsurances, High Deductibles, Copays and significant out-of-pocket expenses. So many of us avoid the US healthcare system until it is too late leading to more catastrophic health conditions which require more expensive and elaborate treatments. This shitty situation is being compounded by a number of additional negative factors (off the top of my head):
1) the rise in treatments for C19 jabbed (and boosted) with adverse conditions;
2) the influx of illegal aliens who use the Urgent Care facilities of hospitals as their primary care provider and PAY NOTHING;
3) fiscally irresponsible State governments whose #1 budget item is their version of MedicAid who now are looking for ways to shift more cost to the private sector;
4) the elimination of the C19 incentives and subsidies
and, last but not least,
5) the rise of the Baby Boomers (like me) into old age, many of who have chronic illnesses, who live from social security check-to-social security check.
Obviously, it is much more complex but these are some of the major drivers. Unfortunately, the best days of healthcare are behind us my friend and it seems to only be getting worse. Look north to Canada where the Leftest/Communists under Castro’s bastard child have rolled out a program called Medical assistance in dying (MAID). This is a government sanctioned process that allows someone who is found eligible to be able to receive assistance from a medical practitioner in ending their life (aka Euthenasia/Assisted Suicide). I am sure the elitist, left POS think tankers have this tactic in their future playbook, under the chapter entitled: “another way to kill off the deplorables”.
Hang in there , Brother!
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Thanks Dana. Aside from your loss , your story is the norm from what I’m seeing. The bottle neck in the med tech stuff looks like a move to overwhelm E.R’.s to me. Even drugs . My arthritis office told me cvs and Walgreens don’t have anything on site , not sure why . Rite aid ( I dumped them 15 years ago ) has stock. I pay extra ins. so I never need referrals and go right to specialists. Mds. are dangerous. The diagnostic trouble is the same though. 🏴☠️
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Yes, I’ve been told, in the interim, if the pain gets worse, go to the ER. Of course many insurances will pay little to nothing if you go to an ER without prior authorization. They’ve got you going and coming.
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Truly.
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It has been getting worse & worse. Almost lost my Mrs due to incompetence & waiting for attention & waiting for tests. Think it was last year. My neice in Ireland before the Vid spent 2 weeks in the hospital & was sent home. After 2 days she went back in. They found her back was broken. We are catching up to socialized medicine quickly. Noticing armed police guards in hospital too. They know what they have done.
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At our ER they actually have one of those old timey standing mailboxes that used to be on every corner, with the spring hinged door you pull forward to open and deposit your mail. On these boxes however, US Mail has been painted over with: DEPOSIT ALL WEAPONS HERE. I kid you not. I asked one of the (armed) security guards if anyone ever dropped weapons into it, and he said overwhelmingly “YES!” The only problem was that it wasn’t being used by civic minded people complying with the hospital’s zero tolerance weapons policy; it was merely a convenient dumping ground for weapons used in crimes. Shoot somebody, put on a hoodie, wipe your murder weapon down clean, then dump it in the hospital weapons mail box, and hightail it out of there. He said they mostly retrieve handguns from the box. And these are the same people who take care of us when we’re sick.
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Dana sorry to hear about your hip 😕Here in my town we had excellent care at one of our local hospitals until a big corp buyout from some shitole company in Tennessee. Now it sucks!
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The old ditch your murder weapon in the mail box trick… holey moley. Hope that hip heals up quickly and it’s not fractured. Spring is right around the corner.
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Hope you’re feeling better Dana – sounds like by the time they get to you, you might be over the hump and not need them at all! Also sounds like a new healthcare start-up might not be a bad idea, something like: “Third World Care” – We might not have all the symptom suppressing drugs that do you no good, only fund pharmaceutical companies; and we may not have all the radiation photo gizmos that cost a fortune that (never you mind, your insurance will pay) make us look good, none of those wonders of modern medicine; however, there is a difference between us and them – we are here to help!
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Hahahaha! But so true!
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Take care of yourself brother! I hope you get that hip and elbow taken care of soon, I am sure that is hindering you in many ways. I will be praying for you my brother! Thanks for the heads up with our medical care turning into socialized medicine. You are 10000x correct! God bless!! FYI You are a great writer… I have enjoyed reading your stories. All though sad with Trish, you always know just how to put out such harsh information with a bit of humor. Thanks bro! Thanks for sharing your life with us! Hope you and your fam are doing okay after your loss with Trish! Take care buddy!
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Goodness, Dana. So sorry to hear about your hip! It’s incredible that they think you might have a hip fracture but expect you to wait a month??!! I guess you’re not an illegal, huh? You’d be front of the line. The health care industry is just as chaotic/ineffectual/corrupted as our other institutions. You’re right about the ER, too. BUT if you were illegal…well, you know the rest of the story. Anyway, hope you aren’t in too much pain and take it easy until you are able to be diagnosed. Prayers for you, bud.
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You’re onto something. I’ll dye my hair and beard black, and show up at the MRI center and just keep saying “No hablo, no hablo.” Maybe that will get me in quicker.
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No, I can’t do that . I’ve got a friend with snow white hair, who uses Grecian Formula to turn it back to brown. It’s awful. I’d be embarrassed to be seen. Besides it’s kind of creepy a 70 year old trying to look 30. I’m more the crossed cartridge bandoliers, two pistolas, and a bottle of Tequila type. Perhaps if I showed at the MRI center that way, I’d get some attention….
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…and receive a lengthy jail sentence. But hey, I hear prison health care is pretty good.😉
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Sent you an email. Loaded with love – bandoleer or chandelier – yes, loaded either way.
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I think you’re onto something with the “rustic” Mexican look. Make sure you’re in all new clothes and have a shiny new backpack, too. Drive there without your license or registration for real authenticity.
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Best advice yet: Go illegal alien, get fast tracked.
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Yup, I can see it now. Where’s the red hair dye?
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So very sorry to read this hopefully you will heal quickly ,your absolutely right in the total of change of the medical system I’ve been a health nurse for over 20 years as long as we’ve been in NC and thanks the last two years have gone absolutely crazy first they got rid of all this old timers cuz we didn’t want the damn thing now there’s so many chiefs and not enough Indians to actually do the work also don’t forget can’t use any of the old drugs they’re not good enough anymore got to pay for this new crap that doesn’t work and none of our drugs are made here in America crazy crazy. Hope you’re on the mend soon it’s always nice to hear from you . Prayers for a speedy recovery physically and emotionally. I wish I could tell you the paperwork is going to end it’s not the robot keeps spinning it out my poor daddy has told the dentist seven times now that my poor mama is no longer with us so I’m not sure how she’s supposed to reschedule that appointment.
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