Posted on 05/17/2007 4:42:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Even if it is "over the top" in this particular instance, deliberate mistreatment of Jewish or Christian patients by Muslim jihadi physicians in the US is not a very far-fetched possibility considering the demographic and political circumstances pertaining today.
The only difference between your comment and one on DU is that it took over 60 comments to find a way to blame Bush for this.
Do you want to be decapitated by a common run of the mill terrorist muslime?
Unskilled in surgical techniques?
Probably using a "knife" which has not been sterilized?
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No! Say I! No!
We Welcome muslime "Doctors"!
We need muslime "Doctors"!
After all, They'll behead you using modern surgical skills under sanitary conditions.
(Less risk of harmful infections from a "dirty" knife that way. Doncha Know)
Celebrate Diversity!
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Muck all Fuslimes
Any MDs out there who can tell us what this is? Ruptured bowel? Infection? Reaction to medications? My abdomen is "distended" every Thanksgiving Day but I never considered it life threatening.
"Acute Abdomen", which is NOT synonymous with "distended abdomen" simply means "Hey! There is something acutely wrong with this guy's belly".
It can be caused by anything from appendicitis to a dissecting aortic aneurysm to a bowel obstruction to a massive bowel infarction and may or may not be "easily treated" or capable of being treated at all.
"Distended Abdomen" means "Hey! That guy's belly sure sticks out" and can be caused by anything from a bowel obstruction to, as we sometimes call it, "Chronic Pizza Poisoning".
The sloppy use of terms in the article and the claims that "acute abdomen" is "easily treated" and the fact that the "son who is a lawyer" has my red flags flying.
Sometimes, with an elderly patient, who is not a surgical candidate with a surgical condition, all you can do is make them as comfortable as possible with morphine and let Nature take it's course.
I had a Doc from Pakistan (I think) do a colonoscopy on me last week. He seemed like a nice guy and I allowed him to go where no man has ever been before. ;~))
Dear God, be our Protector.
Don't be such an big cry baby........
NOTHING I said blamed it on Bush.......
I simply stated that Bush said ISLAM is a religion of peace......
Did he say it?......Was I wrong?...... NO, I wasn't!......
Grow up and quit whining!......
Quit spending so much time reading DU........
It's affecting your judgment!
I have a friend (young guy in his 40s) who after a week or so being treated for indigestion/stomach virus finally went to the emergency room late at night because he could not take the pain anymore. The took him right to the operating room ---- it was a perforated intestine. He damn near didn't make it, but after a couple of weeks in the hospital and wearing a bag for a few months, they were able to stitch him back together and he's doing just fine now. No more Buffalo Wings, but that's not such a big sacrifice in the great scheme of things. ;~))
Since when is religion indicated on someone’s chart?
Where the hell was Junior when all this was going on? Was he plotting a lawsuit in advance?
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Maybe in another state, my oldest lives 3,000 miles away. The article states that he spoke to the attending doctor, not that he met with him.
Just looking at him on TV, I could tell his hands would be clammy. Ugh.
He is that kind of creepy.
Did it ever occur to any of you questioning what the son did that maybe the father went to emergency in the evening and that the son may not have found out until the next morning? It mentions nothing of the wife/son’s mother, so maybe she’s dead or divorced from him. Kids living in the same city don’t normally keep in constant contact with parents on an hourly basis. The son probably found out and went in 8-10 hours later. I doubt that he went in with his father.
Don’t have to read DU much these days, the BDS is just as strong here by some.
Every day, and on their wrist band as well.
The article says, “ Michael, is a medical doctor and an attorney. While he was waiting for Dr. Ibrahim to see his father, he called Dr. Ibrahim and alerted him “
I’m not blaming the son. I think there’s something wrong with the article. My suspicion is that it’s a poorly written article, high on emotion, low on details.
As far as I am concerned it would be good common sense. I stay as far way from the practioners of the rop as I can get.
The sentence you quoted is the large part of the problem with this article. Was Dr. Applebaum present for this? How else would he know that his father was not examined? This is not made clear. If he was there, he is a physician, and should have done something. Acute abdomen is not a diagnosis, it is a complaint. It can be caused by numerous things including pancreatitis, peritonitis, or appendicitis. These things will kill you, but it could also be severe intestinal cramps from bean burritos and beer.
A physical exam includes looking for fever and diminshed mental state (signs of infection), rebound tenderness, localized pain at the site of the appendix, and tight muscle in the area of the appendix. Dr. Applebaum can’t order the blood tests that confirm the infections, but all that takes is an order from a physician, a phlebotomist and a lab. In truth, the nurse could do the exam and the physician is not needed until the lab report comes back. Even then, most nursing students could look at the exam and the blood tests and see what is happening.
Now if they didn’t order the blood tests, they are beyond negligent. They would have no idea if Mr. Applebaum is about to develop a systemic infection and rapidly die, which is what happened. The physician is negligent, but so is the charge nurse because the nurse should have found another physician to sign off on the tests. You can also legitimately blame the ER physician because he is supposed to be aware of what happens in his ER. And Dr. Applebaum, if present, could have put his father in a wheelchair, had a private ambulance meet them at the door, and sent dad to another hospital immediately if this is what was going on.
The story is missing some very important details.
As a physician, you don’t treat family and try to stay out of the way.
I find your comment pretty offensive.
Life is hard.
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