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Fun With X-Rays

In an effort to get Etotheipi and Lofty (and you too Oldfart even though you have a good excuse) to quit hitting the bong and get back on the blog I’m posting this film to allow them to wax poetic about the diagnosis. Interestingly, the ‘wow’ part of this film is an ‘incidentaloma’, in other words, the abnormality on this film does not explain the patient’s presenting complaint.

I did take this as an omen when I saw it however, as these thingies on the film all make a nice “O” shape and this, honestly, this was the first thing I thought of, drawing all sorts of allegorical connections about how they are representative of the accretions of doomed-to-fail socialist, anti-American crap espoused by the real life Invisible Man. Emotion over substance, concentrated, morbid, warmed over elitist, ivy-league, never worked a real job piss.

My first patient tonight also got me thinking. He is the archetypal pitiful, dependent male, who, at age sixty, can not answer any of my questions about his medical history, instead saying, honestly, “ask mama“. Mama is mad at the hospital who saved his life because he’s sick again.

He arrived here two weeks after his life was saved, at taxpayer expense, after he left my ER against medical advice with appendicitis. He ended up, a day later, septic and near death at the Mecca, and was there and in rehab for 45 days. The bill to the taxpayer? $300,000 roughly.

He has not been taking any of his medicine on his ‘medson’ list, and is very ill again.

Fine. There have always been people like him and always will be. The reason for me mentioning his case is not to poke fun at him… there’s no fixing him unless I could put him in a time machine and enlist him in the Marines at age 18. But this is just the point at which I part company with the modern liberal.

The modern liberal, exemplified by the unsullied one, believes that government can make his life better. Yes, I am angry right now, and I’m angry not at my patient, but at my highly educated friends, many ivy-league graduates among them. They are the power behind what could be the most disastrous election since Carter, and they are children.

How else does one explain this… I exchanged emails with a friend the other day who admitted he was going to cast his vote for “O”. His reason? “The free market is dead“. Really? Who killed it?

This guy is the head of an academic department at one of America’s best hospitals. He has degrees from one of the most prestigious academic institutions in America. He is smart and an incredibly skilled physician. How, in the name of all that is holy, can one believe this?

The answer is to either stand to benefit immediately from the thievery OR to ignore history, let your emotion rule your intellect, to have a deeply buried hate for the common folk (and the American warrior), AND to live within the doors of the academy (oh, and listen to NPR, love that idiot Keith Olberman, participate in candlelight vigils, and to trap all your farts in a jar to prevent global warming).

To those of you who know me, I’m sorry, I can not continue to have friendly chats with you… I’m not going to send you a ‘festivus’ card this year. I have wonderful friends, many of whom have put their lives on the line for the very Constitution that the glorious one thinks is “flawed” (which is certainly true as men wrote it), but the audacity to believe one has the ‘fix’ is megalomaniacal.

The unsullied one and the gaffe-machine commonly called Joe Biden utter Fighting words. I wonder if they are being heard?

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