Posted on 02/26/2020 2:32:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
People have been talking about the ground glass look on this these threads for some time.
I was supposed to go into surgery about 10 years ago but some foreign intern found a lump on my lung in the X-ray. So they canceled the surgery and I went to my primary doctor and he took an x-ray. He said the one from the hospital just had some kind of Shadow on it and there was nothing there.
Subsequent tests proved there was nothing there
I don’t know why I’m telling this story :-) it just hit me out of nowhere
At least after a brief time thinking you had lung cancer it turned out to be a false alarm...
Next time it happens you will know to get a quick second opinion
His doctor probably needed the work for billings.
You gave us a GOOD reason: BEWARE OF SOME FOREIGN INTERNS!
Geez.
Subsequent tests proved there was nothing there.
Wasted my money on the insurance policy. But a man's got to do what a man's got to do, right?
And you acted like a man.
You ended up being fine and you found out that in a crunch you’d do the right thing.
Feel good story
I mean come on man, he should have at least taken another.
It was a LOT of grief setting up the operation again
And time. And money
You are right. For that kind of problem...second and third opinion!
Well that’s pretty horrible an I am glad your pop survived then.
I did not expect a bunch of responses about other X rays being misread!
Scary.
My stomach doctor rocks and is my primary too.
I pay Specialist fee to see him as primary (45 instead of 10) but it’s worth it.
He’s not paesan but I’m good with that :)
They didn’t even run a CAT scan on your pop?
I am sorry he had to suffer through the surgery.
I guess at that point I wanted the second opinion from my GOOD primary and not another dope at the hospital!
Or at least asked for a more experienced doc to look at it.
Now you know.
--You might write this down somewhere and give it to your local attorney.
--Or, give it to a good friend who has your best interests at heart.
One of my best friends is Gotti Jr.s personal attorney but still takes on other work.
He’ll make the doctors an offer they can’t refuse :)
Progress!Bring Out Your Dead
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The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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Lol.
Do you ever watch "Golden Girls"??
Dorothy was going to give some old person an offer she couldn't REMEMBER!
LOL
If you have to wait until there is an actual pneumonitis (as characterized by the ground glass appearance on CT scan), it may be too late for remdesivir or other anti-viral medications to do much good. Need a quicker mass diagnostic test and a vaccine. Yet still doubt this virus will cause severe illness in the Caucasian and African populations. Suspect there will be an outbreak in Chinatown and other areas with a high concentration of Asians in the US.
From what I understand, it is likely that the Everett, WA, patient had significant lung abnormality by the time remdesivir was used, yet it still proved effective.
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