…has just had an unfortunate life-altering experience, but he’s got a great attitude. As I noted on Twitter, we’ve come a long way with prosthetics, and they’re only going to get better (I suspect a lot of the progress has been driven by the wars over the past decade).
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Wow,
That’s a tragic experience, however, he was treated apparently overseas at some world class
hospitals.
Yes, in a corrupt and backward American hospital, the doctor might just have lopped off a limb to make a payment on his Mercedes.
In an American Hospital, It is highly Likely, they would have charged him $200 for a bandaid.
That was bad. Never heard of this condition before. But impacts can be nasty. People die from things like this all the time.
it’s why people trapped in mud die.
An interesting claim. Citations please?
http://www.girdwoodfire.com/Mud.html
“Reassure victim and move them to a safe location above high tide. Call EMS if victim exhibits signs of hypothermia. The weight of the mud may also cause crush injury and compartment syndromes to extremities following prolonged immersion.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=xo53E_ygvBoC&pg=PA512&lpg=PA512&dq=trapped+in+mud+compartment+syndrome&source=bl&ots=dsZuZ5epwM&sig=wVr5W_MGpo4Uq3if0AtP-HzDaa4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ORQOU-igBIuusAT9moCACg&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=trapped%20in%20mud%20compartment%20syndrome&f=false
“Read the section about treatment of trapped casualties”.
Out world class hospitals are firing staff and cutting back because of Obamacare. 🙁
a lot of rural red state hospitals/clinics are shutting down, but that’s because the legislatures
passed on expanded medicaid funding.
They passed on Medicaid expansion because the federal subsidizies run out after a few years, leaving the states with unaffordably high Medicaid costs. The “free money” comes with strings and eventually runs out. it’s little different from Clinton’s “100,000 Cops” programs. Most of those cops’ jobs lasted only as long as the federal payments continued.
They passed on Medicaid expansion because the federal subsidizies run out after a few years
They don’t run out, they just decline from covering 100% of costs to covering 90%. For comparison, the federal contribution for “classic” Medicaid is about 50%, and every state takes that money.
Man, that really sucks.