Thank you, because I don't believe it either.
When you suspect you're having a heart attack, you go to ER or at least call your primary physician. You don't go to urgent care.
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Thank you, because I don't believe it either.
When you suspect you're having a heart attack, you go to ER or at least call your primary physician. You don't go to urgent care.
forever jewel
Green Eyed Lady
I'm sure you'll know when you have your heart attack. Someone who smokes as much as you is due for one.....wouldn't you agree? :shrug:
And those clinics are run by the government. So what makes you think our hospitals and doctors offices under this "health care" plan won't be exactly the same?
My grandfather had two or three heart attacks and was completely unaware of them. He finally had one that my grandmother made him to to the ER for, and they found evidence of the previous attacks.
But the fact remains that thatguy said he knew something was wrong, yet he didn't go to ER - he went to an urgent care instead. And apparently an urgent care that he'd never been to before, because he was unaware they didn't take his insurance. Which is either dumb or not true. You pick which.
You know when they check you into your room there, how they put on that monitor thing?
well, I didnt know that it was sending your vitals to the desk in the center of the floor, I thought it was recording it for later reading,, so, after all was said and done, and I was in the bed with that thing attached, I got up, slipped on my pants and went on down stairs and out front to smoke a cigarette.
shortly after my return I was read the riot act by some nurse because I flat lined on their monitors when I hit the elevator
But it really was kinda cool when they did the release of dye into the heart to see where the blockage was.
You were in there to have stents put in, due to having a heart attack & you went to have a smoke?!
So, let's try this again -
What are stereotypical symptoms of a heart attack? You say here you were describing stereotypical symptoms, but yet you also say you didn't know you were having a heart attack. Did Breton Medical know?
bcp
In My Opinion
look man, this is about coverage, not about my intellect or lack thereof...You were in there to have stents put in, due to having a heart attack & you went to have a smoke?!
smoking is a powerful pull on a person.
bcp
In My Opinion
again, you understand that only worrying about the stereotypical symptoms can be dangerous right?
a heart attack can show itself in more ways than one.
shortness of breath
tingling in the extremities
numbness in EITHER arm
tightness of the chest
chest pain. or no chest pain
getting tired too easy
etc...
can be some, all or any combination of them.
I just thought I had indigestion, other than that I suppose I could have been convinced to hop on the bike and ride a few miles.
Yes, I understand. But the way I read what thatguy said is he presented at Breton Medical with stereotypical symptoms and they refused to treat him.
He never said what the (stereotypical) symptoms were, but that they turned him away for medical treatment while having a heart attack - because he didn't have the right insurance.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
I'm sorry!
(I quit 9 years ago, so I can relate. I never had a heart attack in order to quit, but my Aunt had one, and that made me quit. She's only 11 years older than I am and she was 50.)
My ex-FIL had quadruple bypass, and during the ramp up to the operation his wife thought a great chance to get him to stop smoking..
Docotor comes in, she states something like, life changing event, he's going to quit smoking.. the doc replies.. "Smokiing had nothing to do with it, as far as his heart, and the bypass, quitting or not quitting won't make a differnce"
(I'm thinking the doctor was a smoker, but I never met him)
bcp
In My Opinion
you want stupid?I'm sorry!
(I quit 9 years ago, so I can relate. I never had a heart attack in order to quit, but my Aunt had one, and that made me quit. She's only 11 years older than I am and she was 50.)
I left the hospital two days after the stents (had some bleeding that they were concerned with) went home and had liver and onions for dinner that very night.
I smoked up till two years ago when I just said the hell with it. Havent touched a cigarette in over two years now.
I do however smoke those little cigars on weekends, but, they are pipe tabacco cigars and not for inhaling.
bcp
In My Opinion
smoking had something to do with it.My ex-FIL had quadruple bypass, and during the ramp up to the operation his wife thought a great chance to get him to stop smoking..
Docotor comes in, she states something like, life changing event, he's going to quit smoking.. the doc replies.. "Smokiing had nothing to do with it, as far as his heart, and the bypass, quitting or not quitting won't make a differnce"
(I'm thinking the doctor was a smoker, but I never met him)
Mine was caused by fast food, the reason that the arteries clog is because the smoking makes them hard.
My ex-FIL had quadruple bypass, and during the ramp up to the operation his wife thought a great chance to get him to stop smoking..
Docotor comes in, she states something like, life changing event, he's going to quit smoking.. the doc replies.. "Smokiing had nothing to do with it, as far as his heart, and the bypass, quitting or not quitting won't make a differnce"
(I'm thinking the doctor was a smoker, but I never met him)
Sheesh! Well, my maternal grandfather (and father of the aunt who had the heart attack) had 2 quadruple bypass operations in his long life of 80-ish years. (probably would not have been allowed under Obamacare, don't cha know)
He smoked Chesterfields. Like a chimney. And he never quit.
so i am geussing that would make him granddaddy window licker or at the very least king of the dummies. At least i sought medical care for mine.
and no one yet has said what is dumb about going to the NEAREST medical center for what you think is a serious, but not life threatening condition. turns out, i was wrong about it not being life threatening.
bcp
In My Opinion
and just think, other than health care, what else could they take over that would open the door for them to justify controlling everything else, from where you live, what you eat, right down to what you do for a living.