There was a workplace shooting at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital which served a minority community, and the killer bought his assault rifle just eight days before the rampage. The first person killed was Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam whose approach to treating patients was this. People don’t care how much their doctors know, they only want to know how much they care. Friend of mine refers to doctors as MDieties, so I’ll have to pass this on to her.
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Thanks for sharing that video – it’s frightening. Anyone that cheerfully supports those weapons and blocks any sensible efforts to keep wrong people from having them is just nuts.
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3pO flagged.
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Last summer I had some surgery - nothing huge, but I spent a couple of fabulous days in the hospital. By the end of day two, they were kicking me to the curb. I commented to the anaesthesiologist who was unhooking me from the epidural that I wasn’t sure I was ready to be home on my own. He looked around to see if anyone was listening and said, “Oh, the quicker you can get out here, the better. Every hour you’re here is just another opportunity to pick up some nasty infection.”
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Same with my husband when he had some surgery last year. A small ward and a one-night stay. Outpatient surgery is also preferred for the same reason.
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I was thinking about that watching the news tonight and they were talking about 18 children dying in hot cars this year so far.
Sad statistic
You know whats sadder
A child or teen dies
from a gun every 3 hours and 8
minutes.
2,799 children and teens
died from guns in the United States in 2015, one every 3 hours
and 8 minutes.
The children and teens who died from guns in 2015 would fill 139
classrooms of 20 children.
As shocked as the nation was by the 2012 Newtown massacre, more
children and teens died from guns every three days in 2015 than died
then
.
Crazy people plus guns = death
At least he’s alive
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And Clostridium difficile is back in the news.
There is an oath that covers that.
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Needlessly. But it needn’t be … thanks to a tween.
Still not giving much of shit.
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And they are driving senior, experienced clinicians from the payrolls at the CDC and NIH, people that will be needed when the next superbug or virus hits the scene. Note to Trump, the Kochs, Mercers and the rest of you super-rich yahoos - you will not be immune to these bugs.
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In lieu of meaningful gun controls, I send my thoughts and prayers. Hope he pulls through.
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On answer might be to utilize the antibiotic properties of the Martian surface.
especially in older people whose immune system is not as robust as it once was. But I’m sure he’s getting top notch care.
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Have no sympathy for the likes of Scalise … may he burn in Hell.
When you have sepsis, need the ICU, and have surgery to address it, you are dealing with very aggressive and destructive infections. The hospital is being very guarded in their comments. But people who have cared for patients with severe trauma, multiply resistant organisms, necrotizing fasciitis, rampant peritonitis and other overwhelming conditions, struggle heroically, yet their patients often experience horribly disfiguring deaths, even with the best care.
Forget your political snarkiness for a while. This man is close to death…
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That video, in specific, slightly overstates the case (slightly). The round used in the video is the M855A1, which is a relatively new round in use by the US military. It’s actually a pretty scary round, as these things go. It’s legally (and technically) a ‘ball’ round, meaning it’s not illegal[1] because it’s not considered armor-piercing, but the round uses a hardened steel penetrator for improved hard target performance. So against soft targets (like… us) it performs mostly like a more-accurate-but-otherwise-normal older 5.56mm NATO round. Against hardened targets, it performs like an AP round. The result is that it’ll tumble and bounce off bones (while breaking them) and create a massive and incapacitating wound channel… and do it after punching through both doors of the car you’re behind.
There’s a very small quantity of it that got auctioned off to private buyers when the military shifted from cardboard to metal boxes for better long-term storage, but in general, you’re not going to encounter quite that level of ridiculously-excessive force in the hands of an AR-15 enthusiast. Also, the secondary explosion seen in the video is an artifact of the block being made of petroleum-based ballistic gel, and the expansion cavity, full of hot, petroleum-filled gas, collapsing back in on itself, so it acts like the compression chamber of a car’s engine. So while there’s really no good way to get shot by a nutjob with a semi-automatic rifle[2], it’s not quite as bad as the video presents.
I’m not saying this as any kind of ‘oh, don’t worry, it’ll be fine’, just a ‘yeah, this shit’s insane… but it’s ok to breathe just a little easier than you might after watching that.’
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It’s not illegal to own, but I don’t think it’s legal for manufacturers to sell to the public, which is why what’s out there is a limited supply that runs about $150+ a box (30 rounds - though I did find one guy selling a single 100-rnd box for $300). That’s about $6 a round, compared to the normal range of roughly $0.30 or so per round of 5.56 NATO.
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This in no way should be taken to mean there are good ways to get shot by people who are not nutjobs, or people with other kinds of firearms (or even bows or crossbows). Generally, if someone’s shooting at another human being and it’s not a legit military or law enforcement situation, I’d say they’re a nutjob.
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That’s a horrific piece of information. Infection and inflammation are incredibly dangerous. To cut back on research in these fields is to commit slow and certain suicide.
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Not only a lesson about guns (which I suspect will be over his head), but where would he be without his health insurance???
Imagine the costs he is racking up. Who can afford those without it? I sincerely hope he gets at least copies of the bills so he gets an idea of what it would have done to his family’s finances if they’d’ve had to pay for this out of pocket.
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My former boss had MRSA a few years ago. It was a nasty infection that required several months of treatment and the drugs were insanely expensive. He went through several rounds of treatments and eventually had to get permission to use some experimental drugs that finally wiped out the infection. Fortunately, our company has decent medical insurance. If the insurance hadn’t been half decent, or he had been without insurance, he likely would not have survived.
Ironically, the party that calls itself “Right to Life” is the party that wants to destroy our health care system. In that scenario, the only people who have a right to life are those who are unborn, or those who can pay for it.
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