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Back from my CT scan. The stick for the contrast was good, and as always being scanned is a fun science-fiction experience. Any time you get to be subject to a scanning laser is a good time, IMHO. I was also introduced to a hospital gown that made sense! Amazing.

But there was one thing that made me go Bwuh? There was a TV in the waiting room, and as we entered a movie was just starting. Denzel Washington flick.. John Q.

If you're not familiar with it, it's a hostage drama. Denzel takes an ER full of people hostage when his insurance company refuses to pay for his son's heart transplant. This is a WTF on two counts. First of all, it's a movie about medical failures, people being told that loved ones are going to die, and powerless doctors. Just thing to show to patients in a hospital, yes? Secondly, the bad guy in the film is the health insurance company. Kaiser is a health insurance company at its heart. Great time to get people thinking about how tenuous their health care is.

Should have results by late Monday.

Once upon a time

Date: 29 Aug 2009 03:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capplor.livejournal.com
the best-selling novel was "Coma". Just the thing to sell in the hospital bookstore, to people facing a "routine surgery"

Date: 29 Aug 2009 05:36 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lisa-marli.livejournal.com
*Hugs*
May the results be normal and you get your Driver's License back ASAP.

Date: 29 Aug 2009 08:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johno.livejournal.com
Kaiser doesn't have a "in house" channel, so that was just broadcast TV.

Date: 29 Aug 2009 15:41 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com
Actually it was a VHS tape. Kirsten asked if it could be changed and we got The Mask of Zorro instead.

Date: 30 Aug 2009 00:20 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johno.livejournal.com
Ok, then some local wasn't thinking.

At least the Pharmacy in Union City has rotating kids movies. We've seen most of Bolt, all 3 Ice Age movies, Flushed Away, etc, etc...

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