Thursday, February 17, 2011
Danforth/Main X-Ray Can kiss my fat ass!!
So yesterday, after what has been a few weeks with my banged up knee, I finally went to the doctor at a local walk in clinic. The pain is pretty much gone, but the fluid just doesn't seem to want to go away. So the doctor sends me to an X-Ray clinic across the street. I get there and wait about 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, I get in and they do an ultrasound on my knee. I guess the swelling is such that they wanted to see the sex of the baby I'm carrying in my knee. After that, they put me in a little a little cubicle where I wait for another 15 minutes for my X-Ray. After about 15 minutes, the lady at the X-Ray Clinic comes over and asks how much I weigh. I tell her, and then she says "Oh. That's going to be a problem. Our X-Ray table can only hold 250 pounds." AT AN X-RAY CLINIC? Are you shitting me? Look, I know I'm a fat piece of shit, but you're telling me that an X-Ray Clinic, place who's only purpose is to take X-Rays of people only has a table that can support 250 pounds!!! Unfuckingbelievable. She then tells me "you can try Toronto East General. They have a table that can support up to 500 pounds." I said "thanks. That gives me time to hit the buffet." By the time I lose enough weight to fit on their table my knee will either be healed or have fallen off.
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Independent health facilities (IHF's) or aka private clinics, such as the one Dave describes, generally have less costly (lower quality) equipment than do gov't funded hospital counterparts, hence the table that could not support his weight. IHF's, however will process you quicker than hospitals because they are not subsidised and they work on the philosophy that time is money. I'm surprised that they actually turned him away and did not think to do his x-ray standing up to avoid the table top work.
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