Yowp! Bill Clinton heart surgery
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Former President Bill Clinton will undergo
quadruple heart bypass surgery in New York
City, ABCNEWS has learned.
Clinton, 58, is planning to undergo the
operation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
in Manhattan on Saturday, a source close to
Clinton told ABC News.
The severity of his coronary problem was
discovered after an angiogram this morning
at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla,
N.Y., a source said. His coronary results
were not favorable and he was found to hav
multiple lesions, the source added...
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Cardinal Vertigo
> http://tinyurl.com/67b57
>
> Former President Bill Clinton will undergo
> quadruple heart bypass surgery in New York
> City, ABCNEWS has learned.
[snip]
From the article:
> President Bush was told about Bill Clinton's condition by
> his staff on Air Force One while flying from Pennsylvania
> to Wisconsin.
>
> "He is in our thoughts and prayers," Bush said at a
> campaign rally in Milwaukee. "We send him our best wishes
> for a swift and speedy recovery."
...my skinny white ass.
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> >"We send him our best wishes
> > for a swift and speedy recovery."
>
> ...my skinny white ass.
>
They might as well send good wishes. Having
a quadruple bypass because your heart has
"multiple lesions", and then saying "but he
might have a full recovery", are also two
things I wouldn't expect to hear in the same
sentence.
"Oh, yes, his head is missing, but if we can find
it and freeze it, there's a good possibility that
somebody might be able to reattach it someday!"
Call me pessamistic.
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Cardinal Vertigo
Pessimist. Whatever you think about old Bill, you have to admit he's a fighter.
I've got $5 in a Paypal account that says he pulls through at least until
after Election Day. Want to make it interesting?
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>
> Pessimist. Whatever you think about old Bill,
> you have to admit he's a fighter.
>
> I've got $5 in a Paypal account that says he
> pulls through at least until after Election Day.
> Want to make it interesting?
Not particularly. I have zero idea about how
bad is bad as far as the heart is concerned.
However, being able to fight or not doesn't seem
to have much bearing on what sounds like having
a heart covered in herpes sores.
That just plain doesn't sound good. In fact, it
sounds really sucky.
How they do it:
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attack, menacing him with her Kerflarggh. But
before she could strike he thrust his tongue
in between her razor-sharp teeth while tearing
open her black Chuh-pah-leather uniform to
expose her heaving alien breasts..."
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Cardinal Vertigo
> Cardinal Vertigo wrote:
>
>>Pessimist. Whatever you think about old Bill,
>>you have to admit he's a fighter.
>>
>>I've got $5 in a Paypal account that says he
>>pulls through at least until after Election Day.
>>Want to make it interesting?
>
> Not particularly. I have zero idea about how
> bad is bad as far as the heart is concerned.
> However, being able to fight or not doesn't seem
> to have much bearing on what sounds like having
> a heart covered in herpes sores.
[snip]
I know. It was a joke of sorts.
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>
> > Not particularly. I have zero idea about how
> > bad is bad as far as the heart is concerned.
> > However, being able to fight or not doesn't seem
> > to have much bearing on what sounds like having
> > a heart covered in herpes sores.
> [snip]
>
> I know. It was a joke of sorts.
>
Right. But my "ewwww" factor is pretty high on
this. It reminded me of a cartoon in which people
in Arkansas were vacationing at a natural gravy
spring.
I gather that in Little Rock they have an entire
hospital that does nothing but major heart work,
and 31% of people in Arkansas die of heart disease.
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Cardinal Vertigo
[snip]
> I gather that in Little Rock they have an entire
> hospital that does nothing but major heart work,
> and 31% of people in Arkansas die of heart disease.
Well, that's what you get when you deep-fry EVERYTHING.
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Bill Clinton's heart surgery.
The first is that "The hospital where he is getting
his heart surgery has the highest heart death rate
in the state!"
Half-truth. New York State did something foolish a
few years ago. It started a database of win/loss for
heart surgeons. So the *bad* heart surgeons started
to only take easy cases, and taking them to private
hospitals that would only deal with easy cases. This
makes the bad hospitals and surgeons look good.
The best surgeons are left to do the hardest and lower
odds surgeries, at public hospitals. So even though
they are top surgeons at the best hospitals, their
ratings are low.
The second stupidity is that his surgery is being
delayed because "the doctors and nurses want to take
the long weekend off." Now, that's a pretty low cheap
shot.
Clinton did not enter the hospital "emergent", that is,
in imminent risk of dying. This means that they can
start to pump LOTS of good chemicals into his blood,
things that will radically reduce his cholesterol,
normalize and protect heart rhythym, start unclogging
his arteries, empty out his bowels--which really does
matter before surgery, give him lots of prophalactic
antibiotics, etc., etc., etc.
They can also "get their ducks in a row" in any other
number of ways, from insuring that they have a lot more
blood than they need, that specialists are standing by
in case they need something out of the blue, for example
a dedicated tissue pathologist (if they find something
they weren't expecting to find), and that the surgical
team are very up on his case in particular.
Yeah, a real fun long weekend.
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Rev. Richard Skull
>in imminent risk of dying. This means that they can
>start to pump LOTS of good chemicals into his blood,
>things that will radically reduce his cholesterol,
>normalize and protect heart rhythym, start unclogging
>his arteries, empty out his bowels--which really does
>matter before surgery, give him lots of prophalactic
>antibiotics, etc., etc., etc.
>
Also Clinton was on Blood Tiner meds. Not too smart to do open heart surgery
when the patient is taking blood thinners.
My Mom died from complications due to an emergancy heart surgery. She had been
on thiners for several years and they did not have the choice of waiting as she
was dieing. While the surgery was a sucess, she ended up dieing from loss of
blood. Her blood would not clot due to the thinners.
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