"if your doctor accidentally removes your liver instead of your spleen and you die (as happened recently in Florida)"
Jeezus. Fucking. Christ. That doctor better have his license suspended, and be prosecuted. Also, I'm never setting foot in Florida unless forced at gunpoint.
Isn’t the liver also much larger than the spleen? I mean, I couldn’t find my way around an abdominal cavity, but I’d pretty much leave the big parts as they are. JFC is right.
Yes! I read the article and the surgeon claimed the spleen had doubled in size and migrated to the other side of the patient's body. It's like an episode of Mr. Bean where he somehow has to perform major surgery. Only this really happened!
After the experience of friends (and family who live there voluntarily), I have nothing good to say about medical care in that State. I know it can happen everywhere, but....no. Just no.
Those doctors are not getting enough sleep. I think they get into that habit in medical school. I would prefer to have a doctor who took an extra year to finish medical school, but who is in the habit of sleeping adequately.
The liver/spleen mix up is the most shocking part of this story! If I looked them both up on Wikipedia I think I could tell a liver from a spleen (as opposed to shit from Shineola which is beyond me.)
I can tell you based on my recent experience that hospitals are paranoid about performing the wrong procedure on the wrong patient. They wouldn’t so much as take my temperature without me stating my name, date of birth, and what I was in for. They were always checking to make sure they had the right patient.
I had cataract surgery on my birthday. It was the same with every single person I interacted with from the moment I walked up to the receptionist desk. They'd ask my name and date of birth, bringing up the record, then their eyes would dart to the lower right-hand corner of the screen, and they'd say, "Happy birthday."
Some countries establish administrative agencies to regulate the professions and trades. We in America rely upon trial lawyers and insurance companies. Hospitals, and doctors, are worried about the cost of insurance, which eats into profits.
My father, My elder brother, and his son all have the same name. One day they all needed medical attention for different ailment at the same hospital. That is why they ask you your birthday.
There is a person who lives three miles from my home with the same first and last name as me and was born on the same day exactly one year before me. I do not have what I would consider to be a common name.
Because what they're really saying is "We don't want women to have bodily autonomy, and we want to be able to harm or kill uppity women who stand up against us. We don't give a fuck about babies, life, abortion, or women. We hate women." And it's hard to write that without actually saying that. That's why they have to lie about things like babies, life, and abortion.
none of the 10 commandments, in particular the one about bearing false whiteness, contain an "except when it gets in the way of what I want" clause. The hell you are so quick to condemn others to is waiting for the liars who wrote this.
They're not Christians. They're followers of a cult of power masquerading as Christians. Their Bible is not for reading or reflrction, it's for clubbing people over the head.
I’ll find it easier to say that they aren’t really christians when more of these real christians I keep hearing about stand up and make themselves heard enough that we don’t have to deal with these evil lying bags of shit every fucking election.
Some do. Not enough. But I don't say things like this because I’m interested in clearing the good names of real Christians, I say it because I don't want fascists to “dignify” their vile ideology by pretending it has anything to do with God or Christ. Many of these assholes have never cracked a Bible or gone to church in their entire lives.
Actually, it's probably a relic of some wingnut brain fart that "every new law has to say how much it will cost," intended for keeping the blahs from getting any of their tax money. The delicious irony is that some low intelligence people will see that "lower taxes" and enthusiastically vote "yes" for reproductive freedom.
Ta, Robyn. No notes.
Taxes? That’s what they’re going with?
Fewer mouths to feed = lower taxes.
It's possible that there is some sort of regulation that every ballot measure needs to have some sort of language on its impact on the state budget.
I prefer to think it’s more fuckery, though you’re probably right.
Required line in most initiatives.
"if your doctor accidentally removes your liver instead of your spleen and you die (as happened recently in Florida)"
Jeezus. Fucking. Christ. That doctor better have his license suspended, and be prosecuted. Also, I'm never setting foot in Florida unless forced at gunpoint.
Isn’t the liver also much larger than the spleen? I mean, I couldn’t find my way around an abdominal cavity, but I’d pretty much leave the big parts as they are. JFC is right.
Yes! I read the article and the surgeon claimed the spleen had doubled in size and migrated to the other side of the patient's body. It's like an episode of Mr. Bean where he somehow has to perform major surgery. Only this really happened!
I wonder if it was the Florida Surgeon General. He seems the type who would have those sorts of problems with medical procedures.
After the experience of friends (and family who live there voluntarily), I have nothing good to say about medical care in that State. I know it can happen everywhere, but....no. Just no.
Those doctors are not getting enough sleep. I think they get into that habit in medical school. I would prefer to have a doctor who took an extra year to finish medical school, but who is in the habit of sleeping adequately.
Ideally they could educate a few more per year and spread the load among a larger group. But "Guild" behaviour would never allow it.
"We need to legalize cheating, because it's completely unfair that we can't win without it."
The liver/spleen mix up is the most shocking part of this story! If I looked them both up on Wikipedia I think I could tell a liver from a spleen (as opposed to shit from Shineola which is beyond me.)
Even after Steve Martin explained it so succinctly?
Maybe it's not that they realize they can't win if they don't cheat, they just really, REALLY like cheating?
Maybe it's the only way they can get off. Considering their opinions on sex, they sure as hell aren't getting off that way.
Ashcroft's daddy was beaten by a dead guy in the election for governor. They're that bad.
"this measure may reduce local taxes"
woo hoo - I'm for it!
No New Taxes!
I can tell you based on my recent experience that hospitals are paranoid about performing the wrong procedure on the wrong patient. They wouldn’t so much as take my temperature without me stating my name, date of birth, and what I was in for. They were always checking to make sure they had the right patient.
I had cataract surgery on my birthday. It was the same with every single person I interacted with from the moment I walked up to the receptionist desk. They'd ask my name and date of birth, bringing up the record, then their eyes would dart to the lower right-hand corner of the screen, and they'd say, "Happy birthday."
Some countries establish administrative agencies to regulate the professions and trades. We in America rely upon trial lawyers and insurance companies. Hospitals, and doctors, are worried about the cost of insurance, which eats into profits.
My father, My elder brother, and his son all have the same name. One day they all needed medical attention for different ailment at the same hospital. That is why they ask you your birthday.
There is a person who lives three miles from my home with the same first and last name as me and was born on the same day exactly one year before me. I do not have what I would consider to be a common name.
I have to remember my name multiple times just donating blood!
I'm proposing a new ballot referendum to ban all conservative policy. However, the ballot summary will say
"A yes vote shall keep murder illegal. A no vote will make murder legal."
"A non-vote will make murdering you in your sleep legal."
John Ashcroft's son, as someone probably already noted downthread.
How much of our money did he spend covering up Lady Justice's bare breasts?
The turd really doesn't fall far from the asshole.
Yes, but remember he was sort of a good guy at times. Remember the "Hospital Showdown?" https://www.cato.org/blog/what-ashcroft-hospital-showdown-was-about
It’s discriminatory against conservatives to say that they can’t lie about everything. They don’t really have very much else in their arsenal.
Because what they're really saying is "We don't want women to have bodily autonomy, and we want to be able to harm or kill uppity women who stand up against us. We don't give a fuck about babies, life, abortion, or women. We hate women." And it's hard to write that without actually saying that. That's why they have to lie about things like babies, life, and abortion.
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Dear "real" Christians.
none of the 10 commandments, in particular the one about bearing false whiteness, contain an "except when it gets in the way of what I want" clause. The hell you are so quick to condemn others to is waiting for the liars who wrote this.
Does "false whiteness" mean "passing"?
They're not Christians. They're followers of a cult of power masquerading as Christians. Their Bible is not for reading or reflrction, it's for clubbing people over the head.
If they caught fire when they did that, their deity might have a shade more credibility.
I'll second that.
I’ll find it easier to say that they aren’t really christians when more of these real christians I keep hearing about stand up and make themselves heard enough that we don’t have to deal with these evil lying bags of shit every fucking election.
Some do. Not enough. But I don't say things like this because I’m interested in clearing the good names of real Christians, I say it because I don't want fascists to “dignify” their vile ideology by pretending it has anything to do with God or Christ. Many of these assholes have never cracked a Bible or gone to church in their entire lives.
But, but lying for Jesus is a holy duty for all MAGA Christians.
Always with the moral relativism to justify their own actions.
I love the tack on at the end about “it may lower taxes”
The whole thing reads like a book report written by an 8th grader who never read the book.
Actually, it's probably a relic of some wingnut brain fart that "every new law has to say how much it will cost," intended for keeping the blahs from getting any of their tax money. The delicious irony is that some low intelligence people will see that "lower taxes" and enthusiastically vote "yes" for reproductive freedom.
Less taxpayers, less taxes I guess.