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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
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!
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!?
Cut first, ask questions later!?
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 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!?
Cut first, ask questions later!?
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'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.
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/
- 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
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/
- 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/
That is on brand with any policy pushed by the DNC.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
That is on brand with any policy pushed by the DNC.
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
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.
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
Vance doesn’t have a shot in hell. They hate him and he has the charisma of a stone.
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
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.
Kegseth smoked some meth before his segment, wow!
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Kegseth smoked some meth before his segment, wow!
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
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.
Courtesy of AI, no doubt.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Courtesy of AI, no doubt.
I'm sure Dementia Don is right on top of the situation.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm sure Dementia Don is right on top of the situation.
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
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.
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!
You’re also bandwagoners.
Prepare to be left behind!
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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!
You’re also bandwagoners.
Prepare to be left behind!
Who would take that kind of advice from some rando on TikTok? Are people this stupid now?
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Who would take that kind of advice from some rando on TikTok? Are people this stupid now?
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
Why is this asshat even on CNN? (Yes I know why but I had to ask. For posterity.)
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
I woke up early and alert today for no discernible reason. Until I checked Bluesky. The universe makes sense yet again.