no problem, ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)“We are going to take things away from you for the common good.”
Hey, Josef Stalin would be the first to tell you that no one starved in the Ukraine in the 1930s. Of course, some evil capitalist Kulaks may have messed up the food supply — but they were dealt with. But starvation?? Oh, a good socialist leader would never allow such a thing [to be recorded].
This is why we must keep our guns. We probably should have used them already.
I have a great idea for a reality TV show.
Take “My 600 lb Life” on the road to Venezuela or Zimbabwe
THAT would be interesting TV.
***not to list starvation as cause of death for babies and children who starve to death***
Somehow, a scene from THE GRAPES OF WRATH comes to mind...
Our airhead university Communists, students as well as their professors, should be sent to Venezuela to show the people suffering there how Communism should really be run. If they succeeded in getting adequate food and medicine to the people, it would be the first success of Communism ever.
Get Penn and Glover down there stat!
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I read a story awhile back about a Venezuelan chicken farmer. Using simplified numbers here, it cost him $2 to raise a chicken. He sold that chicken to a grocer for $3. The grocer sold it to the public for $4.
And there were plenty of chickens to go around. Some folks couldn’t afford chicken every day. But they could at least buy chickens occasionally.
Then the government set the market price of a chicken at $1. Cheap chickens for everybody! But that price was less than what it cost the farmer to raise the chicken. End result? No chickens for anybody.
“low blood sugar”.....................
After pointedly reminding Dr. Zhivago that he’s “been listening to rumormongers, Comrade. There is no typhus in our city,” the delegate shortly thereafter has Zhivago pulled from work to discreetly diagnose an ill man in the house.
Zhivago: Why? Is it typhus?
Zhivago: (after inspecting patient) It isn’t typhus. It’s another disease we don’t have in Moscow: starvation.
Delegate: That seems to give you satisfaction.
Zhivago: It would give me satisfaction to hear you admit it.
Delegate: Would it? Why?
Zhivago: Because it is so.
Delegate: Your attitude is noticed, you know. Oh, yes, it’s been noticed!
There’s a lesson here, but many people never learn this lesson. It’s been taught many times.
no problem, ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R62.51 Failure to thrive (child)Problem: Reports out of Venezuela say people are starving to death.
Solution:
> tells doctors and hospitals not to list starvation as cause of death
Problem solved.
I can buy rice or eggs and a number of other foodstuffs here in VA for 1/3 of the price in Venezuela. And I don’t have to stand in long lines outside.
well, there’s always the ever-popular cause of death known as “heart failure”.
You can always cite malnutrition rather than starvation. Or perhaps dietary paucity.
The decease’s body ate itself til there was no more.
New weight loss program advertised on late night TV, move to Venezuela! Tropical paradise and guaranteed to lose weight.