The hospital for which I work has been declared as one of eight official Ebola centers in NY by Governor Snotball (my boss passed along a memo from our head of Emergency Preparedness, who I know is qualified because he’s got an MBA). I’m fairly certain this distinction comes without a budget, but I’m pleased nonetheless because it’s very important. As we all know, Ebola is easier to get than mono at a frat party, and we’re all pretty much gonna die horrible deaths from this “outbreak.” Right now, hundreds of thousands of Ebola Zombies (mostly from Kenya and Mexico, but probably a few Canadians, too) are staggering across our borders at this very moment, looking to infect us normal (and by normal, I mean “white”) folks. Thanks, Obama.
The other reason I’m pleased is that it’s mid-October, and, were it not for this Eboma (or is it Obola?) stuff, the media would be wetting their pants over flu season and how if you don’t get a flu shot, you’re gonna die from the flu (but not before infecting innocent children and people who are allergic to eggs). It’s nice that they have something else to obsess over, even if ti’s just for a little while.
Speaking of death, I have to go to a wake tonight after work. This is one of those unpleasant grownup things that you have to do even though you really don’t want to. Like going to weddings or not passing a stopped school bus. This one is for the father of someone who used to be a very good friend of mine, but who I rarely see these days what with him not living around here anymore. And having been on the other side of these things (that is, as a family member of the deceased, not, as of yet, the guest of honor), about all I know is that it’s weird and it sucks, and there’s really nothing anybody can say or do that will stop it from sucking but on some way it actually does help to know that there are people who care.
So you do the right thing and you go and you kneel in front of the casket and pretend to pray (I guess that’s what you’re supposed to be doing, right?) and then you go and make small talk and see a bunch of people you haven’t seen in a while (and may never see again – at least, not vertically) and try to pretend there isn’t a dead guy (or gal) up there in the front of the room.
But, hey, at least it’s Friday.
I was listening to a CSpan call in show and a woman called to say that ebola is spreading like wildfire and its victims are falling like flies. I do not know if flies are a great casualty of wildfires but I love the hysteria.
I remember when AIDS first burst into public knowledge. People were actually dying, but they were gay people so they needed ACT UP to bring attention and help. But, ebola might start to get white folks so Fox Noise is all they need.
Okies are SURE the ebola infection will be here since Texas is a neighbor and many Okies made the trek last weekend to the Cotton Bowl in support of OU. It’s only a matter of time…
What transpired in Texas was a moment when the curtain was held back on our country’s deplorable healthcare system. What happened to Mr. Duncan is the norm at emergency rooms now days – shove ’em out the door with antibiotics. I read an awful lot of medical records and American healthcare is an outright tradgegy. Nurses see it, as RG points out. And “tort reform” helps make sure the public doesn’t see these profit centers (for everyone but the doctors and nurses).
So I had a test done, scheduled by my doc. Two weeks later, the doc’s office calls asking if I had the test. I said yes, I had it when you scheduled it and they said, “he’ll have to find it in the machine.” Whatever the hell that means. I had already formally requested my records because they never called me a couple years ago after the same test; I was prepared. I sent the results to one of the doctors in my family. I now have an appointment scheduled with a different specialist. It has been 3 1/2 weeks since the echo and yesterday the doc’s office again called asking whether I had taken the test. Really? You’re asking me this? Substandard care, at best. I have insurance and pay the co-pays and this is how they roll at one of the better facilities ’round these parts. Two strikes and you’re outa here
Integris Baptistcardiology clinic.And IT people. And housekeepers, maintenance guys, medical techs….
There is some health care proposition on tha CA ballot this year and it has some Big Med folks plenty upset because they are dumping a ton of $$$$ on advertising in the name of bogus group. The whole ‘messaging’ deception technique is to see how early and often they can get the magic Luntzian two words ‘trial lawyers’ into the script. Of course they say not a word about what the prop is all about.
It’s not just Okies…
Photographer Barred From Syracuse University Over Ebola Fears
P.S. GO GIANTS!!!!
PJ, all those folks you mntion are workers, They do not profit. They do not count. Those Corporation/People, not only have religion and freedom of speech but they, are for profit.
And yes, by all menas…
Go Giants!
Who to blame when you get Ebola.
The U.S. Medical Matrix sucks. In addition to the ‘WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM EBOLA’ hysteria, those of us in the trenches have to put up with the flu shot Nazis wanting to force everyone to take their experimental poison (every time I have to deal with one of them, I think “Tuskeegee”). It is all getting very tiresome and has been frustrating for a long time.
Should you be worried about Ebola?