From the funny headline dpt: Man shot by Cheney listed as ‘very stable’

[liberal N proud]

Since when have patients been listed as "Very Stable"
You are either Critical or Stable, I didn't know there were varying levels of stable.


MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11312757/

[tyedyeto]

1. And if he's stable...

why is he in ICU? I thought once you're stable they transfer you to a regular room. :shrug:

[MADem]

5. Ladies who have babies on Saturday get sent home by Monday!

There is something they are not telling us, here--what else are they hiding?

[LiberalEsto]

2. There's "slightly stable"

and "medium stable"
"sort of stable"
"super stable"
"super jumbo stable with a side of fries"


and for the Chimp and VP Duck! there's "unstable."

[Sugar Smack]

7. "super jumbo stable with a side of fries"

Stop it! Now I have tea all over my keyboard!!




:spray:

[Jade Fox]

15. LOL!

[Klukie]

3. Thats very hilarious

[DainBramaged]

4. At one time I was referred to as very stable

now people aren't so sure.:crazy: :crazy: :silly:

[ET Awful]

6. Well, as we all learned from Miracle Max, there are also different levels

of dead.

Such as "mostly dead" and the like. :P

[tularetom]

8. Well I suppose you could be "very critical"

but how could you be more stable than "stable"? Sounds to me like an attempt to minimize Mr. Whittington's injuries.

On second thought since "stability' indicates a condition that is not changing nor likely to change you actually could be "very stable". If you were dead.

[DS1]

9. Standing next to Cheney, most people are

:shrug:

[applegrove]

10. First thing I thought. Very stable sounds better than stable. Total

WH malarkey.

[Jade Fox]

14. Yes, "stable" just sounds like he's not going down hill..

and very stable sounds better.

The Bushco spinmeisters think of everything!

[papau]

11. But the media reports the lawyer is sitting up and laughing - in the ICU ?

Not that there is not a lot of laughing going on in the ICU's that I have seen.

[mtnester]

12. He needs to be moved then so that bed can be freed up for someone who

really needs it, like a CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT

ER nurses - answer for me - how many times have you seen a GSW flesh wound discharged that same day?

[malaise]

13. This spin is fall down funny

Just saw the hospital administrator at a press conference (which was interrupted for Bush to say hello to Kofi). The administrator took over the question asked to the doctor about the 'victim's' condition. What was really funny was that he said he didn't know where the rumour started that Whittington was going to be released today.

They seem rather preoccupied with suggesting that Harry W's condition is not serious. If he's so well, I wonder why he's still in hospital.

Edit-gr.

[txindy]

16. The first hospital had him transferred to a Trauma ICU at a bigger hosp.

That doesn't sound like a "peppering" to me. He's been in that Trauma ICU, now, for nearly two days. The first hospital couldn't handle these "superficial" wounds? Gee, I wonder why he would need a trauma unit? Think it could've been more serious than they let on? :eyes:

The spin from this cabal is nauseating.

[mindfulNJ]

17. Just wait...

He'll die in the hospital... from a preexisting condition of course!:eyes: