this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (3 children)

a million letters vs. one shooty boy

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a wise man said, political power grows out of a strongly-worded letter.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

can be true, as long as you write it on your shell casings

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Disregard letters

Embrace the 9mm

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Violence works.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So fucking evil.

If you've never had chemo, nausea is one of the most common side effects. People develop a pavlovian response to just seeing the chemo bag (I've seen it). People can even get nauseous just driving by the cancer centre. Zofran/ondansetron is one of the most common antiemetics pre-chemo meds and it works pretty fucking good, sometimes they go up to Aprepitant for chemo cause it can still make you super nauseous

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had a specific sandwich the morning of an infusion, 5+ years out I genuinely can't think of that sandwich without getting nauseous and I haven't been back to that restaurant since

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

I had 4 rounds of chemo over 10 weeks back in the 00s and I still get a little nauseous when I think about some of the videogames that I was playing between treatments

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am amazed day by day that there has yet to be any doctors that have gone full Rambo against a health insurance company

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You never know, the hero of the hour's profession is unknown.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and may it continue to be so

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

From your lips to God's ears

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What happens if the doctor gives the kid the meds anyway?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some entity has to be on the hook for procurement and administration of the drug, etc... this is true even after the revolution I think. Hopefully what happened in this case was the doc had their clinic write it off but idk

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of these meds are cheap like borscht. Zofran costs cents per pill. I've administered 50 ml minibags that cost $10K to the hospital, but most simple meds like this are cheap. It costs crazy amounts in America mostly because of yalls' crazy private insurance system and the arms race between billers and insurance

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

yeah. and when you think about the total drug cost of an entire chemo regimen it's even less defensible, somehow

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The hospital won't have a lot on hand, they do for once or twice but eventually diversion gets noticed if it happens over and over. Depending on what they need, they might have to get it prescribed and have it filled at a pharmacy - some pharmacists and some doctors will get samples which can cover people (my ex used to get their psych meds from a psych with a shitload of samples). In this case, they might be taking Zofran before a chemo cycle to help with the nausea and might be getting it through a pharmacy rather than at a hospital.

Nurses sometimes slip em meds but that counts as practicing medicine without a license if they don't have an order or a prescription (Ive given plenty of left over ventolin puffers or liquid oral vitamin d during discharge, cant give it to anyone else and they have a perscription for it otherwise its going in the trash). Doctors don't generally give any medications, just the orders for them.