This was a very good read. Thank you, Kelly.
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ellenwalrath
Lucky you! I did the same thing, but was kept in the waiting room a couple of hours before a doctor saw me and more-of-less said “You’re fine, go away faker, stop hogging the attention of “real” sick people.”
I didn’t say everyone should automatically be given nitroglycerin if they show up short of breath with chest pain. I said Tashonna should have, because it could have saved her life. Nitroglycerin absolutely can be administered as a precaution and should have been in this case. Women tend to present atypically, which…
Unfortunately ERs are sometimes staffed with overworked, disinterested people that sometimes take shortcuts regardless if you look ill or not.
P.s. My doctor was a female Pakistani immigrant originally from Afghanistan who would never been allowed to be a doctor and home.
I did the same thing two years ago. Heart palpitations, shortness of breath etc. I sat in the waiting room for 5 hrs after being triaged. Hell by that time I was feeling better and was about to leave. A nurse came running out and stopped me. I had multiple blood clots in both lungs and the right side of my heart had…
If cops can lie on the job sometimes and for some reasons, when can they not lie, and why should we ever assume a cop is not lying? Isn’t lying to get justify an arrest almost the same as lying to get a conviction?
This is absolutely fucking wrong and I really hope her family sues the hell out of them. It won’t bring Tashonna back, but maybe it will teach the hospital a lesson so that this doesn’t happen to someone else. She should have been given nitroglycerin, aspirin and morphine, put on oxygen, hooked up to a heart monitor, a…
I drove myself to the hospital with chest pain about five years ago, and saying “chest pain” stirred up the ER like kicking a nest of ants. I was in an exam room hooked up to a monitor in five minutes. Every nurse and the doctor* gave me a long, angry talk about how stupid I was for driving myself in. They kept me…
As a Chicagoan, I really wish they’d let this go. Yeah, the man lied. We all know this. This lie did him no favors. Fine his ass, and let it go. Shit like this distracts from the fact that a person’s odds of getting away with murder in the city of Chicago is greater than 50%. Put some time and resources towards that!
Isn’t this the city who had at least one detective to have been found to have coerced confessions and witness testimony, planted evidence, and lied in court, and who is still collecting a full pension?
Man, he didn't even extort sex for traffic tickets.
Hey remember when Jussie Smollett convicted and locked up an innocent man? How about when he entered a home and murdered an innocent woman playing video games with her nephew or when he choked to death a father who was selling loose cigarettes?
When I, a white woman, try to talk to white people and tease about cultural preferences or behaviors that we have, I seldom get anyone joining the fun. My husband and I have a great time proclaiming, “White people just love this shit” even when I love that thing. I can’t even use good natured humor to get fellow white…
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Careful. I hear the DOJ is working on a framework of how to include the repeated use of things like “mayo” in their long-awaited definition of “domestic terrorism”.
Popped into my head today, can’t tell if it’s been used before. But damn does it fit.
incelwaffen
I finally realized that there was something fundamentally broken in how White people are socialized last year, when I made a White man go berserk by just asking him, “Are you White, yes or no?” And he responded with “I’m a human being”. He couldn’t understand that his Whiteness was intrinsically linked to how he was…