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14:43? are you fucking high?

It's actually very cool...

I figured Stus attention span was that of a knat.

http://gawker.com/mogul-offers-120-mill ... 1507640263

I wonder if the offer is still good if the husband is an already married, black dude with 2 kids.

If you dress like you did at the car dealership, then probably no.

wanted to give you guys a heads up with my experiences with an Urgent Care facility.

3 years ago just before Xmas, my wife and I went skiing and basically I broke my leg - it was a micro fracture but I ended up going to the Urgent Care place just down the road because I didn't want to go to an emergency room. Doctor told me I tore my acl and had me sign up for some specialist to have surgery. Luckily the specialist checked me out and told me my ACL was solid but I had a fracture on the bone below my knee.

Second time I go , I've overused afrin, have my sinuses all fucked up and the doctor there gives me some crap that doesn't do anything and I suffer needlessly for 2 extra weeks before I go to a real doctor and he gives me steroids, in 2 days I'm good to go

2 weeks ago my son is exhibiting signs of whooping cough even though he had him vaccinated against it 4 years ago. Doctor gives him some meds and tells him to take them 4 times a day. Doesn't do anything for him, and my son develops a severe cough that makes him throw up. We go to a real doctor last night and he was telling us how horrible these places are and he has to deal with them not prescribing the right medications or misdiagnosing stuff all the time. Doesn't matter now if my son has whooping cough or not because it so late in the process no medicine will help him but the doc did give him some anti-nausea cough suppressant that knocks him out immediately so he's been asleep on the couch all day.

So my point is - while these places are convenient and most of the time significantly cheaper than a hospital, my experience is they are shit - some doc that isn't capable of hanging his own shingle and can't work at a hospital working these fucked up hours like 5pm to midnight and holidays for these places.

I can't say I won't ever go back because if its 8 at night and you or your family is in pain, you want to help them but I'm going to be alot more wary of whatever they diagnose and prescribe, plus my health care has dropped in quality so I have to choose between the quality of care I think I'm going to receive going against my deductible . I know I shouldn't but that's the reality of $3K when you're dealing with head colds and sore throats.

There are some of those places around here, and they're horrible, except for one. One of them is owned and staffed by actual ER doctors. They do a fairly good job.

I've gone a few times, always had good luck, but only b/c i walked in and told the guy what was wrong and what I needed. They did hook me up with some steroids one time as well...

They didn't work

sardis wrote:If you dress like you did at the car dealership, then probably no.

LMAO. Well done.

I paid nearly $200 for a visit to one here and all he did was prescribe anti-biotics. I should have just gone to my regular doctor.

You should have just sucked it up.

I plan on doing a lot of sucking it up pretty much for the remainder of my life. I think a solid life insurance plan is a better investment than health insurance.

my new health insurance has me re-thinking my approach as well. In the past I was so well covered you just didn't think about when and how often you went to the doctor - you just went when you thought you needed to, and admittedly, for the kids at least, that bar was pretty low. I think once body parts started breaking on me, I picked up how often I went.

But now, I've already put off a blood test because its going to cost me upwards of $300 and instead of doing that every 6 months, I'm only going to do it once a year. I guess there a silver lining this year though - my wife is going to need braces and initially I was going to just pay for it out of my own pocket but now that money can go against my deductible, so by April, I'll be back on a 90% health plan and go back to pretty much how things were before for the rest of the year.

Its a balancing out effect I guess. Obamacare has taken one blood test away from me, and has given it to someone poor who wouldn't have had a blood test at all.

Redistribution of health!

heh

Only go to the Doc-in-the-box places that have a direct affiliation with one of the hospitals

The one here has served my purposes admirably...

"my wife is going to need braces"

Not good news, this could impede the possible threesome with the hot friend.