Cheney praises cardiology advances
Source: Washington Post
A month after receiving a heart transplant at Inova Fairfax Hospital, a vigorous-looking former vice president Richard B. Cheney told an audience of cardiologists he felt uniquely blessed that his 35-year battle with heart disease had so neatly tracked the arc of medical progress.
My disease was able to stay sort of right behind developments .?.?. in the field of cardiology, he said. So that about the time I needed something new because of progression in my own disease, it was there and I was able to take advantage of it.
Cheney, 71, accepted the invitation from the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute to address the gathering of physicians including several who had operated on him long before he learned he would be getting the transplant.
He recounted a life punctuated with medical close calls that, if theyd occurred a couple of years sooner .?.?. I wouldnt be here today.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cheney-praises-cardiology-advances/2012/04/27/gIQAvKPJmT_singlePage.html
gateley
(62,683 posts)God forgive me. You know what I thought.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)thousands of our soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilains would. Seems like on balance.... But then, whoever said that Life was fair?
Now we can only hope he lives long enough to be convicted of his war crimes.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)Is there anything possible an average citizen can do to keep Cheney from being here today?
(Hmmm Sounds like something the left wing thinking man's Ted Nugent might say?)
If only there was no Dick Cheney back on 2000 to appoint himself to run with GW Bush! In terms of magnitude of human misery this man has inflicted on the planet per GW Bush year, this man is up there with prostate cancer and auto accidents. Not as pernicious as heart disease, to his credit.
-90% Jimmy
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)man4allcats
(4,026 posts)for Big Macs each with a large order of fries.
Bozita
(26,955 posts)And science is nothing but a bunch of college professors making shit up and wowing their MSM audiences with a whole lot of numbers and math stuff.
Everybody knows that.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)Are medical advances worth the risk of keeping someone as vile as Cheney alive. Cheney would be long dead in the 19th Century Conservatives want to return to.
-90% Jimmy
And that we over here agree (generally) on that point is what makes us better than them. The 19thCC that compose our opposition can't see through to the other side of the decisions that they would make. Its a kind of mental immaturity, and it exists because "father-figures" like good ole' Dickey keep doing their thinking for them. On that note, the very best thing that could happen to that party is for Reid to abolish Dual-Tracking in the Senate, and put them out in the political Wilderness (for REAL) for a couple of election cycles; it would be like moving out of your parents house=)
schmice
(248 posts)Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)Archae
(46,338 posts)Filthy rich Cheney had taxpayers pay for his heart transplant.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 28, 2012, 04:22 AM - Edit history (1)
And the handful of others who could game the system to get access to the care denied most in your situation. It's too bad the many other needy recipients aren't rich, white, former vice-presidents. If you weren't one of those, I doubt you'd still be here.
Exactly! Same goes for the owner of the pro football Carolina Panthers, who's on his 3rd heart.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Holy shit.
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)MindMover
(5,016 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)he's been sucking off the taxpayer teat for decades but he's still a rightwing fucking ASSHOLE
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)Back in Dracula's time, one stake through the heart and you were a goner, but now with modern cardiology,
they can replace the damaged heart with one from one of the living, making vampires virtually indestructible.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)engineering because the taxpayer invested in their early and adult education, in the success of their family and community and country.
Then we got you and yours. "Dick Cheney. He arrived. He hurt more people than he ever helped. He left."
Some legacy. Boy is your section in the history pages gonna be a bust.
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)that they could put a human heart in that shell and it's not rejected as of yet.
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)There is no way you could get that kind of care with free government insurance right?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)over every other person who has died of heart disease. That makes him so special, don'tcha know. It's God's doing.
He's special.
Turbineguy
(37,355 posts)misused.
the_chinuk
(332 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)I don't want to think that way at this moment ~
Festivito
(13,452 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)golfguru
(4,987 posts)They are more advanced in medicine. Or even Canada/UK/France
Herlong
(649 posts)I'm fifty and I've gone under the knife once! But, this guy!
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)There's really no reason why they shouldn't.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)had his ticker given out a decade sooner the world might have been a safer place for all. He and his cronies are personally responsible for the lives of the thousands of Americans killed in Iraq, the thousands of innocent civilians killed in Iraq, the thousands of Americans wounded and maimed in that conflict. He is evil. There is no other word to describe him.
As a Christian I try to include him in my prayers but when you see such evil, unfettered and unabashed, like Satan himself, in your midst, it is really hard.
I keep trying..............
wordpix
(18,652 posts)gawd I hate that man