Posts by Christian White3

I’d take his bag of charcoal as compensation and just dump that same bag right onto his car ☕

What absolutely kills me about this healthcare system is when they send some elderly, frail person home for "post-op care" after surgery, and then they just completely stop giving a damn. As long as they get the patient off their hands, they’re happy. It happened to me—my old man passed away, and just a few days later, my grandfather had to have a pacemaker put in. He already has two artificial hips and moves incredibly slowly on crutches; you honestly don't know what to do with someone in that state. He got both the pacemaker and the hip replacements at the same hospital, and ever since that whole mess, his mobility has just plummeted. So now what am I supposed to do? There’s no one to look after him. I lost my job, and even if I find a new one, I can't take anything with long hours, field work, or overtime. Obviously, nobody gives a damn about my situation, and I refuse to touch his money, even though he has both an American and a German pension.
I want to work, but I can't live in constant fear of him falling again. It’s happened several times—once on the stairs just a few months after his surgery, once when he felt ill, and a couple of other times he just tripped and went down. He refuses to go to a nursing home, but you can't force him, yet you can't exactly leave someone in his condition alone at home either.
There are plenty of people who feel confident enough to undergo surgery, just like him, because they spent years doing heavy manual labor. Then illness hits, and most people can't afford private care, while the waitlists for government facilities are ten years long. When are we going to stop living like we're in Afghanistan? Our healthcare system is total garbage—actually, scratch that, my old man won't listen to me anyway. A doctor could have easily told him, "Sir, you need a facility; you can't be left home alone all day." 🤷

Nicholas Chavez70 said:Well, seeing as our insurance covers procedures like this, I’d say we actually have quite a solid system in place... It really makes me wonder, though, what kind of policy would cover these types of surgeries over in the States...

http://www.crotalk.com/modules/news/...p?storyid=1908

What, were they supposed to just let him die? 🤦

melloworca6 said:How long did you end up waiting for the paramedics?

And don't go blaming yourself—it's not on you. Even if you had driven them to the ER yourself, there's no guarantee you would have made it in time. 😢

About 20-25 minutes. I was in the Highland area near the local Walmart. If they had come from a suburb like St. Louis, they wouldn't have made it in time either—not that I'm claiming emergency crews are everywhere at every single second. It was an incredibly quiet night, at least where I am, though this area usually deals with broken car windows every Saturday and Sunday morning. Plus, looking at the news and local sites lately, I haven't seen much more than a few minor fender benders around New York City and the surrounding areas.
And I wasn't the only one waiting; some people were stuck for over an hour.

Terry Martinez55 said:Honestly, you rarely see them parked over on Heinzelov. Once those crews head out to a job site, they don't just head back—they end up circling around town all day. The only exception is lunch, but even then, they never all break at once. New York City is relatively small once you get used to it—it’s basically all under one big umbrella, and you can get anywhere pretty easily. The way they've organized things here isn't half bad.

I learned the hard way on the night of September 12th, 2010, when my old man passed away. The paramedics were crawling down the street like they were heading to a wedding or something. I guess we must have interrupted their poker game or their beer break, because they seemed more interested in taking their sweet time than actually helping. They didn't even bother bringing a defibrillator into the house—it was obvious they knew that every minute they delayed, his chances of survival dropped. Once you describe the symptoms, the diagnosis is clear: he was in shock from coronary artery blockage. In a case like that, the only hope is getting immediate, lightning-fast intervention. There were no injuries, no bleeding; it was textbook cardiogenic shock. But those little general practitioners working the ER barely seem to know what that even means. Honestly, an EMS service like that is completely useless; you might as well just shut it down. ☕

Look, there's no need to get worked up. First off, you're looking at this from the wrong angle. The reality is that most people fake symptoms of heart attacks or strokes when they’re actually just having accidents. Most folks wouldn't even know how to spot the warning signs of a stroke or a cardiac event until it’s far too late—that's usually the only time they realize something is actually wrong. Diagnosing a stroke or a heart attack isn't some simple, trivial task either.

It’s not your job to play psychologist and figure out if someone is faking it or not. If someone calls you in the middle of the night panicking because their parent is struggling—if they’re slurring their words, gasping for air, or breaking out in a cold sweat—you don't sit there overanalyzing the situation. You just show up. If you can't handle that, or if you’d rather stay behind playing cards with your buddies than answer a call, then honestly, find another career before you cause more harm. ER departments are meant to be staffed by people who actually care about saving lives—cardiologists, neurologists, surgeons—not by people acting like veterinarians.

Look, you really have to trust your primary care physician. If you don't have that level of confidence in them, they aren't going to be any help to you at all. Honestly, if that's the case, you’re better off just finding a new doctor. In some countries, people spend their entire lives relying solely on primary care. In those places, if your doctor actually refers you to a hospital, it's usually a bad sign.
In my personal opinion, the healthcare crisis in America is directly tied to the breakdown of primary care. We need to scrap the current system entirely. It's time to bring back family doctors and make them the central backbone of our entire medical infrastructure again.

What's even the point of having a primary care physician or a GP? They’re lazy, undertrained, and honestly, they act like you're a massive inconvenience just because you showed up to pick up a prescription or a referral for yourself or your family. All this "e-prescription" and "e-referral" nonsense was only introduced so they could finally get rid of the crowds in the waiting room. It's a way to stop patients from getting on their nerves, because clearly, they don't care about anything other than their own comfort. It doesn't bother them one bit that they can show up at 8:30 instead of the scheduled 7:30, head home before 1:00 PM, and take hour-long breaks, even though the official hours at my local clinic are 7–2 and 2–9 with only a thirty-minute break. I'd switch to another doctor, but there isn't anyone else in my area. 6.2 miles I don't have any other clinic to go to

And in the end: if I had only known they were going to take forever: I would’ve just hopped in the car, dragged him out to the vehicle, and been at the Highland hospital in five minutes because I drive like a maniac. Maybe I’d still be alive today. I'm just going to keep blaming myself for not doing more for him, who knows how much longer I'll feel this way.

Look, in a massive metropolis like New York City, you really ought to have teams and vehicles distributed across different neighborhoods. They should have parking for rigs on municipal land so every district has at least one or two units instead of everyone being clustered together on Heinzelov. Based on how long we were waiting for the old crew, I’m guessing they all started from downtown, which is just a joke. What if, for example, they were stationed in the Highlands near me, say in the Grižanska area—they could reach the most remote corner of the neighborhood in 10 to 15 minutes! Absolutely. Then you just rush the patient to the nearest hospital, and you could actually save lives. Or, if someone gets sick in an apartment, like in some student housing, the call comes in and either a different crew is dispatched or the unit already out on a call handles it. From my amateur perspective, if the absolute priority is traffic accidents, then this whole system is garbage because people exaggerate their stories just to get an ambulance to show up, only to end up with two minor injuries. The most critical emergencies are heart attacks and strokes; everything else is secondary, but I doubt a GP is going to know the difference, nor will the ones giving them orders.

There are plenty of vehicles available, thank God. You see a huge amount of traffic right by the storage depot in Dubrava. I don't care if they have enough teams or not—we pay our taxes, so they should figure it out. If they can find 1,000 vehicles every few years for the federal government, they can certainly find them for the stuff that actually matters.

slycanyon22 said:If you ever had a dad or a mom who desperately needed help, didn't get it, and passed away right in front of you, you'd see how much your whole perspective shifts.

That’s exactly what happened with my old man. He took a turn for the worse at 3:35 AM, and they finally rolled up at 4:00. He was already gone. We live in Upper Dubrava; there are plenty of EMTs near the old DTR depot by the carriage house, but clearly, these idiots sent a vehicle all the way from Heinzel. It was Saturday night heading into Sunday, so the streets were empty. They crawled in like snails—they didn't even bother bringing a defibrillator into the house. They just checked his pulse and told us, dead cold, that he was gone. Right in front of all of us. But I guess we shouldn't be surprised; those general practitioners working the ER wouldn't know what they were doing if their lives depended on it. They didn't even ask about his medical history or if he smoked. The guy was rambling about an aneurysm, but my old man actually died from a blocked coronary artery. We ended up waiting for the coroner until noon.👎

In the end, nobody could tell me exactly what happened, but based on the symptoms—slurred speech, breathing without a pulse, cold sweat on his forehead—it was obviously cardiogenic shock. Though, looking at the "expertise" of those retired GPs running the ER, they probably haven't even heard of it.

If Ahtisaari hadn't taken direct payouts from Felix Osman and Paciolli, Mexico probably wouldn't even exist. Both Switzerland and Germany are accusing those two of organized crime, yet they just hide behind the claim that those countries are simply jealous of their legally earned wealth. 😂

Sure, it’s all "legal"—if you consider organ trafficking, smuggling heroin from the Middle East through the US (with Karamarko's buddy running the police, transit is a breeze), and moving Kurds, Turks, and Chinese migrants to the West via Cleveland and the Snježnik-Snežnik mountain pass to be legitimate. In fact, actual hikers have been banned from using that route because it's too easy to just dress people up as mountaineers—who's actually going to tell if someone is a hiker or not?

Without corrupt politicians at the top of the European Union, Mexico would never have happened. Instead, we've been handed another "legal" mafia state that serves as a massive transit hub for tons of heroin heading into Europe. And pulling the strings are the Osman brothers and Paciolli—supposedly respected developers, though we all know construction is just the perfect front for money laundering. You build ten high-rises, sell the condos, and boom—money laundered. It's the same thing we see back home, where random kids from the neighborhood pretend to be "entrepreneurs" by dumping cash into legitimate businesses.