What about the report this a.m. from the Doctor who said.....

[jus_the_facts]

......"I WOULD HAVE SENT A PERSON WITH THESE INJURIES HOME WITH A PRESCRIPTION OF ANTIBIOTICS!" :wow:

I read this in LBN or somewhere earlier today....I'd never trust him to treat a flea after that statement! :wtf:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2108193

First Doctor to Treat Cheney Victim Tells Texas Paper He Wanted to Send Him Home

By Joe Strupp
Published: February 14, 2006 12:05 PM ET

NEW YORK While news reports from The New York Times to the Austin American-Statesman have been describing the injuries to Harry Whittington, the victim of Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting, as more serious than first believed, as he remains hospitalized today, the tiny Alice (Texas) Echo-News Journal will offer a different version later today, E&P has learned.

According to the afternoon daily, located about 60 miles from the shooting site, the first doctor to treat Whittington immediately after the Saturday shooting contended that his wounds were superficial and not in need of further hospitalization.

"If it were just a normal citizen, he would have sent him home with antibiotics," said Ofelia Hunter, Echo-News Journal editor, who talked to the doctor. "He felt that it was more royal treatment that he was getting."

.. ."He felt he was transferred because of his prominence, and that he was already stable," Hunter said. "It was more because of who he was." That is in marked contrast to reports in most major newspapers that Whittington required intensive care treatment, was hit with more than 100 pellets, and that some of the wounds were so severe the pellets could not be removed.

[mom cat]

1. He is toast after that remark. Perhaps he should go to work for Scotty!

[hippiechick]

2. Was he related to Dr. "Remote Diagnosis" Frist?

:shrug:

[Tanuki]

3. Lying docs

I'm glad you brought that up. I, too, have been amazed at the false statements coming from the medical staff at the hospital. I would think that their ethics boards would be concerned as well. Does anyone here know how to look up whether these docs/administrators have a history of Republican campaign contributions?

[Missy M]

4. The sad part is he probably would have, only to have him....

come back half dead. This is the state of our health care today.

[spuddonna]

5. Did that come from hospital staff? Holy cow!

Can you imagine having loved ones there?

"We're goning to send Grandma home now... She'll be fine, really." (yikes!)

[jus_the_facts]

10. Yes it did...I edited my OP to include the LBN article posted today.....

:evilfrown:

[Ilsa]

6. Treat 'em and street 'em healthcare. Typical for trauma units,

and this was a large unit at a large hospital.

If I am not mistaken, the county sold the county hospital to Christus Spohn, a non-profit. My understanding was that the cost of running Memorial (the county hospital) was really wiping out the local taxpayers because Corprus Christi has such a low percentage of educated population, and therefore, low percentage of insured with alot of immigrants seeking healthcare.

[txindy]

7. Was his name Frist?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Who said this, and when? Was this some "medical correspondent" for

one of the networks? Or an actual person involved in Whittington's care?

[jus_the_facts]

11. Reread my OP...I edited it to include the article from LBN...

:hi:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Wow. That doc really hosed himself.

[jus_the_facts]

13. Makes one wonder what sorta bribe he took to say that......

....the 'ROYAL' treatment he was receiving...not a NORMAL citizen...mercy me. :nopity:

[MADem]

9. Well, if the doc was relying on the bullshit WH spin, he might have

The way they downplayed it (after waiting a day to even TELL anyone) made it seem like he just got a few stray bits. But then, when you started hearing about how he went to one hospital by ambulance, then was helo'd to a second, then in ICU....well, you could just SEE that something wasn't adding up.

The icing on the cake was that the Vee Pee's detail was ORDERING the White House not to release details....if we ever doubted it before, now we know who is in charge here--the Five Deferments Robot Chicken.

[Imalittleteapot]

14. Open a practice with Frist!

They both do a good job covering Cheney's ass.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Home, ICU...

what's the diff, really?:shrug: