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Public history, museums, fundraising, public health, patient safety, writing, new books, music, random Internet stuff, fluffy animals, cancer survivor. Is there a way out of this?
I pay more than $500 a month for my employer provided health insurance. This is what I get in return & that’s just the tip of the iceberg. My experiences with bad healthcare in San Diego are not all recent. There’s something rotten in this city. I can tell you in my experience what one of those are!
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They also didn't review my chart. If even a cursory review had been done, they would have read that I had recently had a colonoscopy & had been taking large amounts of ibuprofen because of the IV infiltration arm injury. All irritating to the stomach!

Cut first, ask questions later!?
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I've found who it is that doesn't want to work anymore & it's health care professionals in San Diego. For example, it turns out my "gallbladder pain" is gastritis. I was referred for surgery with little workup. My pain wasn't classic gallbladder so I refused. 2 week course of Prilosec fixed me up.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am finding this DIY method of healthcare to be a San Diego peculiarity:
- CVS wants me to find the supply to fill my own prescription.
- Scripps PCP does 0 exams but instead refers me wherever I suggest.
- UCSD refused to evaluate my IV injured arm & said I made it up, so I had to self treat. 2/
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
That is on brand with any policy pushed by the DNC.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
As someone who has been ignored and gaslit by doctors trained in the last five years, I can tell you amateur "pattern matching" is alive and well.
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Vance doesn’t have a shot in hell. They hate him and he has the charisma of a stone.
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Exactly. When you're young, you find the drama enchanting & exciting. Then you reach middle age and the whole thing sounds fucking exhausting, so you enjoy the songs & pretend The Chain is about you and your high school friends group still getting drunk together but legally now.
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Kegseth smoked some meth before his segment, wow!
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I said AI because AI is a predictive model and takes words, and word order, literally. AI doesn't hear or understand cultural meaning between the words the way I do or you do. It likely read this as "bad English" or containing a typo.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I said AI because AI is a predictive model and takes words, and word order, literally. AI doesn't hear or understand cultural meaning between the words the way I do or you do. It likely read this as "bad English" or containing a typo.
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Courtesy of AI, no doubt.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I'm sure Dementia Don is right on top of the situation.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Zing!
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’d like to get paid as much money as Ross Asshat does to pull complete nonsense out of my ass. I think I’d be better at it. Because one of the ways women ruined the workplace is we showed how incompetent most of the men are.
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Breaking news: we’re tired of the retirement home the DNC has been running for the last 20 years. We’re also tired of the Republican-light platform that you keep running and losing with!

You’re also bandwagoners.

Prepare to be left behind!
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Who would take that kind of advice from some rando on TikTok? Are people this stupid now?
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Why is this asshat even on CNN? (Yes I know why but I had to ask. For posterity.)
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I woke up early and alert today for no discernible reason. Until I checked Bluesky. The universe makes sense yet again.
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM