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Your hospital's choice of anesthetics could speed global warming (Not a satire)
Fierce Healthcare ^
| July 16, 2010
| Sandra Yin
Posted on 07/16/2010 5:36:20 PM PDT by C19fan
When prepping a patient for surgery, global warming may be the last thing on your mind. But the anesthetics used by a busy hospital contribute as much to global warming as the emissions from hundreds of cars a year, according to a new study published in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Depending on the type of anesthetic used, an average mid-size hospital may equal the environmental impact of 100 to 1,200 cars per year.
(Excerpt) Read more at fiercehealthcare.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: anesthetics; globalwarming
Not only will we have to live pre-industrial lifestyles to fight global warming but we also go back to using the good olde stick in the mouth method during surgery.
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:36:24 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I volunteer to perform a lobotomy on Obbo free of charge.
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:39:03 PM PDT
by
donhunt
(Where does this totalitarian ashwipe get off telling me I can't chose for myself?)
To: C19fan
And we all laughed when we heard the Taliban were trying to take the world back to the 8th century.
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:39:27 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: C19fan
Yeah when I was in anesthesia school they tried pawning this line of crap on us. Out of 30 in my class 29 were republicans so we basically told them to eff off. That was 6 yrs ago. I never in my dreams imagined obamacare would come into existence. Wonder how this will affect my job? Guess I’ll have to knock patients out with a hammer??
To: C19fan; grey_whiskers; proud_yank; markomalley; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Nipfan; Amagi; Fiddlstix; ...
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:39:52 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
To: donhunt
Make the doctors walk to work.
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:40:09 PM PDT
by
donhunt
(Where does this totalitarian ashwipe get off telling me I can't chose for myself?)
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:45:43 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: C19fan
I was thinking nearly the same thing - will we have to go back to having the patient chug a fifth of whiskey and bite on a bullet?
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posted on
07/16/2010 5:48:38 PM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
To: 3catsanadog
...well..anesthetic less operations are now the norm in North Korea....
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posted on
07/16/2010 6:11:14 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(mess + 0bama = quagmire recession)
To: C19fan
That’s why north Korea is such a global issues such as these. Doing surgeries without anesthesia.
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posted on
07/16/2010 6:12:46 PM PDT
by
lonestar67
("I love my country a lot more than I love politics," President George W. Bush)
To: C19fan
Toilet paper, air conditioning, now they want us to give up anesthetics when having surgery. What is wrong with these a$$hats? As I commented on the air conditioning story: LET THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ADVOCATING THIS GO FIRST.
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posted on
07/16/2010 6:13:34 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: C19fan
Guess I’ll have to get a biting bullet.
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posted on
07/16/2010 6:17:53 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: C19fan
Wow, it really pains me to hear that....
Thick Face, Black Heart...
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posted on
07/16/2010 6:55:29 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: C19fan
We can “bite the bullet”...unless you live in Chicago where guns and bullets are banned.. Sorry folks, bite Obama instead.
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posted on
07/17/2010 12:05:29 AM PDT
by
Semperfiwife
(No Private Sector money = NO government dole)
To: 3catsanadog
Forget the whiskey, it takes energy and charred wood to make it.
Oh, and there's the fumes.
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posted on
07/17/2010 12:09:10 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Conservatism isn't a party)
To: C19fan; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ...
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posted on
07/19/2010 12:14:58 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Michelle Obama: the woman who ended "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.")
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