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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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Request/insist on an EKG and stress test.
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Unfortunately the stress test doesn't always successfully indicate a problem with blocked arteries when there is one. |
No test is perfect, but you need more than minor symptoms - that very well could be the 3 shwarma that you got at that local food cart - before getting them to spring for an angiogram.
BTW... there is kind of a simple test that can help you decide if it is just indigestion. (this one came from a couple doctors) Get up and walk around for awhile. Does it get better when you do that? Then it is probably your stomach. If it gets worse, call an ambulance because it very well may be your heart.
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| However, I've had "colleagues' who seemed to have been pulled from under bridges, who couldn't help scamming if their life depended on it, and with perhaps as little accountability as the average local. The system was created for such, and until the quality of students merit a resultant rise in the quality of teaching staff, I think this is one of the necessary supports that keep their ramshackle facade that goes for tertiary education from falling completely down. |
Requiring a doctor's chit doesn't really stop this sort of thing because I found that if one showed up in their office... one got a chit from them.
IMHO, teachers should be allowed X number of sick days per semester and if they take more than that, pay be docked. Messing about with doctor's appointments is a waste of time and money - and if one is really sick, why should one have to drag one's self across town to some doctor who 90% of the time has nothing to treat your virus anyway.
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rollingk
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| I think that just getting to the doctor's office, waiting there a bit, and getting the chit represents more work than many of these folks would put into their classes. Therefore, they're likely to forgo that particular pretense, and give their students their due. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| KSA does have an amazing propensity for attracting ne'er-do-wells, wasters, deadbeats and bums. I think that is why I liked it so much. |
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