Dan, has the medical field ever led you to see and care for patents or have you always focused your career on lab work?
Im not sure I understand the question. I started out in ithe lab to work in health and science, not to help people.
We do a lot with liver transplants. I think those are the patients I knew the most. Bad liver patients were mostly former drug addicts but seemed grateful. Iâd draw their bloods. Then weâd do hepatitis antibody testing, weâd find out what strain of hep C they had, we monitor their immunosuppressive drug for the rest of their life if they get a transplant. We donât draw blood anymore but I still recognize the names we get. Drawing blood gave you some empathy.
Interesting that no mention of liver transplant, but mention of GI treatment. We do pretty much everything but labor and delivery and maternity.
So I guess do think about the patients more than I did when I started out.
Lab work is 100% related to care for patients. You canât really do much without it. The ER and OR would be doomed without it. We just see patients for 5 minutes at a time.
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So do you go to the patents room and draw blood directly or is blood sent to you to analyze?
Now it is sent. We used to draw.
Oh, yeahâŚhow was that for you? Iâm sure you got plenty of exercise when you had to go get the blood. I would probably not like it much. The sight of bloodâŚ.and I have a weak stomach. I walked in on my sister having a labor pain and nearly went to my knees, it made me really sick.
I miss seeing patients but this is better for everyone. It is better for the patients. Phlebotomy should be done by Phlebotomists.
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Doesnât this make your blood boil.
Do you think this is really beautiful?
Isa has thyroid cancer. Cancer sucks but if you have to have it, thyroid cancer is the one to get. They caught it early and the 5 year survival rate for stage one thyroid cancer is nearly 100%. Theyâll do surgery in March to cut out half of her thyroid. Theyâll do some tests after that and decide if they need to cut out the rest. If they do, sheâll be on some pills for the rest of her life.
We do get older, it seems. It could be worse. She should be fine.
Iâm so sorry. Glad you have insurance.
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cancer is always scary awful news but am glad to hear the prognosis is pretty good
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Did she get a second opinion on treatment? Has she considered high dose vitamin c? Have you thought about purchasing her a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?
I donât know if sheâs considered high doses of vitamin C but she hasnât mentioned anything like that. Iâll buy her whatever she wants but she seems more interested in traveling to Colombia when this surgery is done than anything else.
Does she know about Hyperbaric Oxygen?
I donât know. I doubt it. Sheâs not into alternative medicine, generally.
âAlternativeâ is a phrase the Rockefellerâs coined to sell chemical drugs. I wish your wife well.
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I donât think that makes sense.
âWalgreens plans to dispense Mifepristone in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so,â the company said.
What does Newsom want? Walgreens canât be expected to break the law in red states. Itâs silly.
It looks like they are lying. I would assume in states like Iowa, it will not be permissible. It is now. Once it is not permissible, I donât see how he can expect Walgreens to not comply.