Just for gins and griggles, thanks to the comment above using the term, I did a DuckDuckGo search for 'rundeathisnear'.
:D :D XD OMG that search engine knew *exactly* what the term refers to. Many hits came up for remdesivir, including an article about two wives suing for the wrongful deaths of their husbands. :(
My own run-in with rundeathisnear and its equally malevolent sibling, paxlovid, came last July 4th weekend when I checked into the local ER with a 102 degree fever which turned out to be coronavirus. The healthcare workers didn't seem too upset that I had it, but didn't want to release me right away because my blood pressure was really low.
So, I was stuck in the hospital overnight, with a saline IV, and got offered both rundeathisnear on one occasion, and paxlovid on another. I very politely declined both, and the medical staff did not press the issue. In fact, when no-thanking the doctor, I said, "but I would really like to get some Vitamin C and Zinc." He kind of smiled, and lo and behold, wrote me a prescription for vitamin C and zinc, which they brought me in official hospital pill packets, emptied into a little paper cup like they do, and furnished with a cup of water to wash it down.
Eventually my blood pressure got high enough for them to release me, and when I got home, I found that someone had phoned a prescription for paxlovid into a nearby pharmacy-- but it wasn't the pharmacy that I normally use, which is very clearly listed in my medical records. Odd. Naturally I called that other pharmacy and canceled the prescription.
It was almost like the grassroots staff of this healthcare group, at least the ones I met, knew what the score was, but for whatever reasons* didn't dare speak openly of it, and instead did whatever subtle forms of resistance they could get away with and still satisfy their pointy-haired-manager overlords. Do a Google Translate from Latin of the word 'acer' and you will find the group's name.
* I'm betting it's huge med-school and nursing school student loans, and they don't dare lose their jobs on account of these. Sad what a grip the PMC has on the medical profession's short hairs these days.
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'rundeathisnear' web search
Date: 2024-04-26 04:17 am (UTC):D :D XD
OMG that search engine knew *exactly* what the term refers to. Many hits came up for remdesivir, including an article about two wives suing for the wrongful deaths of their husbands. :(
My own run-in with rundeathisnear and its equally malevolent sibling, paxlovid, came last July 4th weekend when I checked into the local ER with a 102 degree fever which turned out to be coronavirus. The healthcare workers didn't seem too upset that I had it, but didn't want to release me right away because my blood pressure was really low.
So, I was stuck in the hospital overnight, with a saline IV, and got offered both rundeathisnear on one occasion, and paxlovid on another. I very politely declined both, and the medical staff did not press the issue. In fact, when no-thanking the doctor, I said, "but I would really like to get some Vitamin C and Zinc." He kind of smiled, and lo and behold, wrote me a prescription for vitamin C and zinc, which they brought me in official hospital pill packets, emptied into a little paper cup like they do, and furnished with a cup of water to wash it down.
Eventually my blood pressure got high enough for them to release me, and when I got home, I found that someone had phoned a prescription for paxlovid into a nearby pharmacy-- but it wasn't the pharmacy that I normally use, which is very clearly listed in my medical records. Odd. Naturally I called that other pharmacy and canceled the prescription.
It was almost like the grassroots staff of this healthcare group, at least the ones I met, knew what the score was, but for whatever reasons* didn't dare speak openly of it, and instead did whatever subtle forms of resistance they could get away with and still satisfy their pointy-haired-manager overlords. Do a Google Translate from Latin of the word 'acer' and you will find the group's name.
* I'm betting it's huge med-school and nursing school student loans, and they don't dare lose their jobs on account of these. Sad what a grip the PMC has on the medical profession's short hairs these days.
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