@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow "The idea that because one has earned a medical degree makes them an honest person is naive & absurd."
I can vouch for that. I remember hearing that starvation was the solution for a heart attack. Any talk of any kind of feeding was "keeping the patient alive artificially."
I can vouch for that. I remember hearing that starvation was the solution for a heart attack. Any talk of any kind of feeding was "keeping the patient alive artificially."
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow After a day of watching a nurse come into the room with a syringe, stick the needle into the patient's central line, and, while watching the vital signs monitor, inject some of the drug. Wait a few seconds, inject some more while watching the vital signs monitor...
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow ...After the third partial injection, the nurse pulled out the syringe with some of the drug still in the syringe.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I didn't like those numbers, so I kept squeezing some in until I got the right numbers." she explained.
They were keeping the...
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I didn't like those numbers, so I kept squeezing some in until I got the right numbers." she explained.
They were keeping the...
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow ...patient's heart going ARTIFICIALLY, which was what they accused wanting to feed her by tube or intravenously would be. When I told the other family members what I witnessed, questions were asked. A day later, cardiologist comes in and reports, "I'm withdrawing."
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow He wasn't supposed to be doing anything.
Why? Well, the nurses got to practice for a few days. Practice keeping a younger cardiac patient alive with such injections until open heart surgery or a transplant became available. Also, they got to ride Medicare like...
Why? Well, the nurses got to practice for a few days. Practice keeping a younger cardiac patient alive with such injections until open heart surgery or a transplant became available. Also, they got to ride Medicare like...
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow ...a Shetland pony at a rich little girl's birthday party. "Consultant" fees, breathing treatments, the injections.
About one-and-a-half days after the injections stopped, the patient died naturally of a heart that couldn't work without the injections, not starvation.
About one-and-a-half days after the injections stopped, the patient died naturally of a heart that couldn't work without the injections, not starvation.
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow @threadreaderapp I need an UNROLL, sir.
@TheClasslessCo @marklevinshow @threadreaderapp Unroll needed.
