When I Went To The Doctor For Kidney Stones, She Cared More About Pronouns Than Patient Care

The Federalist ^ | 05/24/2024 | Christopher Jacobs

[IncPen]

I contacted George Washington University Hospital about the care I received, but its press office did not respond to multiple calls and emails.

I consider myself a seasoned expert at disrupting corporate complacency.

Every corporation has a hierarchy, and every hierarchy has a ladder.

The trick is to get between the guys who want the CEOs job.

In this case, I would have complained to HR and the medical director. It helps if you say something like, “How many VPs do I have to complain to in this sh!thole before I get someone who will stand up for me?”

Also good to call the CEOs office and tell his secretary he’s got a bunch of disloyal VPs under him who’ll throw him under the bus to total strangers who call to complain.

[IncPen]

I have a neighbor—elderly now—who’s a retired mechanic.

One day he called me as I was driving home from work and asked me to pick up a few cans of Coca-Cola and drop them off.

He was working on an old international cub cadet that’s he’d dragged out of a field— it had been there many years. He had the head off and the cylinders were obviously completely rusted.

I watched as he poured the coke in there, and a couple of days later he called to say they’d all freed up.

First I’d heard of it.

[arthurus]

Drinking that much coke- you are probably not troubled by kidney stones.

[gitmo]

I asked two of my doctors in the height of the pandemic if I should get a COVID shot, just to see what they would say. They both asked, “Why would you want to do THAT?”

[stateofit]

Laser blasted or sonic blasted?

[TangoLimaSierra]

"go to hospital"

Was the doctor a cave man or a brit?

[wgmalabama]

I was told my kidney stone cure was a 6 pack of beer and lortab. I liked that doc.

[TChad]

Kidney stone ping.

[AlaskaErik]

Laser blasted or sonic blasted?

I couldn't tell you. All I know is it worked.

[eastexsteve]

For all her outward concern about pronouns, the George Washington resident did not act concerned about a possible infection. She (they?) did not order a urine culture to check for infections, nor send the stone I passed while in the ER for laboratory analysis. She and her supervising physician also questioned the need for a CT scan, which had been standard practice during prior bouts of kidney stones, claiming that a scan would only be needed if I had a blockage or infection — an odd claim, given that I had yet to provide a urine specimen for analysis.

I've battled chronic kidney and bladder stones for three years now, and anytime I went to the ER for a kidney stone issue, an immediate CT scan and urinalysis was standard procedure.

I recently may have discovered what was triggering them, and I've been stone free for three months now. I hope you overcome whatever issue is causing yours.

[Chickensoup]

Marc Steyn was denied a needed blood transfusion in a leftist hospital in Burlington vt.

If you are confronted bya leftist in your health care leave if at all possible.

[Bob434]

good question- he did have an accent

[minnesota_bound]

About his kidney stone and his very small urethra 😆😁

Replacing the ‘Ol Knee | Bill Engvall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpqpFlyQvuk

Bill Engvall - I Have A Small What!? | Bill Engvall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3XtH2DPqPs

Bill and Gail Pull a Stent Bill Engvall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gPebnQmow

Living in the Hospital | Bill Engvall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDC-1sNxZo

[minnesota_bound]

This should help....

Half of all UCLA medical students can’t pass basic medical exam
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13454451/UCLA-medical-school-dean-Jennifer-Lucero-DEI-affirmative.html

[Chickensoup]

And assume this nationally. Because the directives are coming from a nation oversight commission.

The problem with admitting unable people to any career is that they find their niche in paper pushing and oversight since they actually cannot do the work. And they are not really able to do the oversight because they are angry jealous and less intelligent.

[RedMonqey]

Kidney stones run in my family on my Dad’s side, I’ve had several bouts with them and, yeah the pain is terrible. Like having a knife stabbed in your back then twisted.
Luckily my urologist knows our family history and we get the treatment we need. And no problem with our “pronouns”!

[beef]

“Inner city hospitals are going totally woke.”

Women and minorities hurt most.

[beef]

“My current doctors are excellent, but as they move on, they will be replaced by products of “affirmative action” and our increasingly woke universities, medical schools, dental schools, nursing schools, etc.”

I have exactly the same concern. I won’t willingly go to a physician unless they were trained and graduated in the 20th century.

[mewzilla]

And the rural hospitals provide lousy care.

[MayflowerMadam]

“I won’t willingly go to a physician unless they were trained and graduated in the 20th century.”

I won’t willingly go to a beautician unless she was trained to cut a Dorothy Hamill wedge in the ‘70s. (I’m running out of options.)