”Hospitalist” 21 November 2010
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
A monkey holds a ‘Krathong’, a raft made of coconut shell decorated with flowers, candles and incense, on the occasion of the annual Loy Krathong festival at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand
Picture: EPA
During my sojourn in the land of needle sticks, switchblade (my nickname for the instrument used) attacks on my finger tips (even as as my glucose tested normal day after day) and other alarming events, they sent in a “hospitalist” to try to sell me, a second go at as it were, on an invasive procedure.
Hospitalist? We have a crisis in health care in the country, esp at the clinic level, rural health care delivery, all sorts of health care…………..
So I wondered, WTF is a hospitalist:
[A] hospitalist is a general physician who cares for hospitalized patients. The hospitalist’s only concern is with patients in a hospital, they do not work out of a clinic or a private practice. Basically, the hospitalist assumes a hospitalized patient’s care in place of the patient’s primary care physician.
The hospitalist definition was coined by Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. Since that time, the field has exploded into popularity and has revolutionized the way patients are treated. By having hospitalists look after hospitalized patients, the primary care physicians can spend time more efficiently looking after patients in their own offices. This reduces the amount of hours primary care physicians work and may also improve preventative care. ….
Whatever. I still declined the needle to the heart fandango they wanted…. to perpetrate.
*****
Glad to see you back!
Thank you!
I just witnessed the “Hospitalist” thing (though it wasn’t named that) recently; though I was visiting, versus a patient …Have been since wondering whether there is a “manual” of sorts enabling a person to understand what, if anything at all, a person has a right to expect, when admitted to a hospital.
I’m so glad you’re out of there!
Enh… this thing was never on track, never on track to be on track… but ooooo the knives…………….. are out.
Toss him on the pile.
Read more: PoliticoPeopleMag
Well, if you survived the hospital….
(you know) (unsolicited bear hug)
well I”d like to say, “you should see the other guy…” but they looked undamaged, as I wved buh bye
Obamalama should get a Presidentalist. Maybe that would improve his performance. Or not. Probably not.
Well they’re all derivatives now.
Presidentialists, Hospitalists, hell, even the Socialists. LOL.
Everything went to shit when they came out with the Eucharist. A derivative. ‘nother derivative. LOL.
Everything went to shit when they came out with the Eucharist
that made me laugh.
One thing there shall never be, CatISTs.
Won’t be happening.
if the Eucharist is a derivative, does that make the other stuff priests deposited on kids’ tongues credit default swaps?
Good one!
hmm listening to the early morning news, htere does seem to really ba TSA backlash… a cancer survivor whose urine bag was spilled while his underwear was pulled down during a “pat down”.
WTF?
hmm Maybe Roger Ailes can help?
The entire fucking administration is a joke. No longer in the making, but fully realised.
And don’t miss this charming headline:
Promise? Really?
Full scale joke. Him his wif his administration, his headlines his useless everything. It is actually stunning. Will he last the months to come.
I do enjoy how hapless and amazingly dumb and not ready for Q and A is our Mr Pistole (Maybe he and Baby Foundling are related?)
BP shoulda had a cavity search, but gee they are a FUCKING GLOBAL BANKER and heavily covering US Treasuries. Aside from DOD cosyness and hugeness.
I’m just glad I moved back to CA where my family is. If we were in DC or OR, I would never come home.
In fact, the only flight I’ll be taking ever again is when we flee this fucking country.
And BTW, welcome back Marisa. Glad to hear you got out of hospitalist purgatory.
thank you… less bravado here than last night, but holding on………
IMO the country is finished. It’ll drag on, dragged thru the US ISraeli Whirled Domination Wars…. every insurgent anti government person or movement a Terrist.
Fuck Bush Fuck Obama.
May they congeal. (of course they have already, along with Bug Tussle Arkansas and hardscrabble, more liplessness, fake Kennebunkslop)
there was also the prosthetic breast pulled out of a bra, and video that has serviced of the TSA forcing a father to take his young son’s shirt off.
both were horrifyingg… I caught an interviw with the woman with the prosthetic breast and the vid of the kid is just simp[ly freakish.
Over at SMBIVA, they just call out Pistole as a groper. I have harsher words for that failure with feet, Janet Napnothing. She is really appalling. Big dumb payoff for being a Dem gunsel atty operative all these years
AND moving the useless woman from AZ is directly responisble for the ascent of Brewer. Dems, born brain dead…
Glad to see you, MCat!! You were missed!
**hugs**
thanks brinn….
Yeah, I second that, I just noticed. I’m happy to see you are back.
I look back at the week in the hospital and I think I just barely made it out. And stumbling around the house today, remembered how fucking much I hate cardio guys… and now I am in their clutches.
ugh… not a good thought.
Thanks CSTAR…
Schneier link farm: TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
the urgent task of stopping the huge exodus of Roman Catholics from the church of their birth.
I dunno, they could build a wall.
Japan hand Chalmers Johnson dead at 79
oh no… what a pity.
Clemons has so completely fallen apart… a few years ago I saw tiny, admittedly very tiny, glimmers from him. But just another Neo Lib Rightie. New Washington Gay Elite.
Geesh.
Kissinger,who fell ASLEEP at the WH table a few days ago, hauled in with the others (I did nto see Stansfield Turner tho, I noticed) to buttress Dying Foundling. Diapering won’t save that squalling baby.
“My work here is done”
Which reminds me…same m.o. in Ireland:
Send in the wrecking crew.
with Bertie Ahern in 2008.
Same shit different asshole. Now with Cowen.
Entering Year 11..
of the Cataclysmic Klepto War Millenia.
CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri?
This sniffs like sadistic revenge to me … especially since CFOS are, generally, NEVER, EVER, layed off:
Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization based in Maryland, said Monday in an interview with CNBC that she was laid off as part of the nonprofit’s effort to cut expenses.
….
(hat tip to jawbone’s comment here)
and yes, she is the same:
I thought it stank a bit too. Not Obbie’s sort of black person.
truly,…and wondering which one of the lovely couple demanded it first, …. odds on baby fat hunter or obster?
she was basically an ”unmasker”. that vid and his sick grinning is very potent. Ob fanatics worked so hard to discredit her. Like maniac gnats they were.
between that, and that fiercely malevolent look that has slipped through in a few shots (my mind always conjures up one I saw when he was salivating over colonizing Mars, but this one, prefacing this Black Agenda Report: ”Psycho-Babbling Obama,” certainly suffices), not sure which is worse.
speaking of his grin… madman posted this up thread and I am just getting to it…
http://www.correntewire.com/my_work_here_done
The pic at corrente leads back to this UK site… It’s a UK “Onion” like site but hell it is all converging now…
thanks for that Daily Squib link honey! Goes well with my second 24 ouncer….
those FUCKERS …..
(and “NO, I’M NOT FUCKING DRIVING ” for any sanctimonius liver kneed lurker)
in fact, the 24 ouncers are part of my HCR Medical Program, as are my Benson & Hedges ….[FUCKERS]
I ate everything today I was denied in the hosptial (called Real Food)… well, except full fat milk/dairy… as it will cause congestion and they plan to see thru my heart and lungs tomorrow.
gah. One ”meal” I called “dog food that I wouldn’t serve a dog and sawdust”. Thankfully I had almost no appetite.
If you like pomegranate juice, I’ve heard it might help heart problems sweetheart (except: watch it if potassium levels need to be watched).
so little juice in the US has any flavor… I love pomegranats…
for potassium, a half a banana a day does it.
yup, …pomegranates ..force thought
I love concord grapes too, raw, have you ever lived anywhere where it freezes honey (they grow best there, but, even there, you don’t want to chew on that center or skin)?
by the way sweetness, as mostly usual, I absolutely love that prefacing picture to “this thread” ……
yeah, that pic was certainly apropos of the sickly grinning Mother Fucker…….
link for:
same as link for Psycho-Babbling Obama)
wow. Just fucking wow. If accurate….
at a Seattle PI blog:
we are in some seriously deep shit.
We need an out and out strike on flying, or mass airport rallies.
We need an out and out strike on flying
that would do it
before it is too fucking late
via Laura Rozen, who reports on a Hill briefing to the full House:
LOL yeah but I have been saying thsi gang cannot even pick up the fucking gun much less shoot, straight, gay, bent or otherwise….aiming at thier own foot would be too damned hard.
And there is this… I say the WH is shitting TSA shaped hard ones. What a royal screw-up.
Good Luck ObRama and Baby Fat Hunter. And Janet Napnothing.
From the comments.. and so appropriate as he and his wif have used those daughters… too much so, imo.
love that comment.
certainly there needs to be a “staffers” revolt…..
about a year ago, I had an interesting conversation with a local youngster “intern”, working the “public rep.” phone, who informed that orders came from the clouds that they must announce themselves as “interns” (when answering the phone when one of us losers called our local “public reps” …obviously so said Rep could say the “intern” didn’t know what they were talking about, if said Reps Office were quoted) … they also informed, in between the lines, that they never got to speak with that “public rep.,” i.e. my concerns stopped at the interns ears.
I’m out for the eve, though I’d love to hang on to those wee wee hours …kisses…
whoops… when corporate media stops “loving” you…
Wapo
The optics are hilarious on Morning Without Joe Because He’s Suspended But Will Be Back In A Ratings Stunt Like Olbermann.
ANYWAYS.
MIKE ALLEN on . With engorged busted shnozzola.
From rifle recoil.
No shit, he almost says, it happened while hunting with Van De Hei.
That is so US: So Uncle. So M’rka.
a broken nose?
O my how unseemly. Perhaps gallivanting too hard.
Hosted By Willie Scheisse today. With tired old hacks Brokaw and Barnicle.
On your worst day, dear, not even close.
Not from hapless rifle recoil.
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Then they had Cassidy from the New Yorker. Shocking Wall Street! Yada ya! Ya Ya Yippy Wall Street Ya! No! Of Course we should have bailed them out! And they deserve their bonuses if you look at it from a Wall Street POV! And they do a lot of good! But it raises Questions! More of which can be found in his book!
I know!!!
…he wuz pistol whipped. If you catch my drift.
BTW, there is a report at the Washpo about who gets to avoid airport scanning and invasion… among the groups is various mil, and even mil family and wuvved ones who come to meet planes. (Hi Daddy! Where is your leg? And the other one?)
BOARDING military, some, are allowed to avoid the melee.
Officers ya think?
I say Major Hassan missed his chance. Tho he sure got a full dozen as I recall.
We’re living inside a really dumb, bad, dangerous joke.
Just a buncha creeps all having fun together (via Broken Nose’s email)
Neue (Achtung!)
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