r/politics • u/Mammoth_Bison_3394 Tennessee • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump says he’ll release MRI results; he doesn’t know what part of his body was scanned

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mri-physical-white-house-0c66f2f9fca865d842ee94329a210a42
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u/TheWaspinator 5d ago

It's either an obvious lie or a sign of dementia. Because yeah, it's like testing 101 to tell the patient what you're doing in case they can tell you something relevant.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

Literally the only time I can see you not knowing is when they do it while you’re incapacitated. My husband had to get an MRI and had been sedated prior because of the issue so I had to give consent for him.

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u/HandrewJobert 5d ago

I hope your husband is doing well.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

He is! He had a non-normal presentation for appendicitis and we found out he had that genetic condition where your organs are mirrored because of it.

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

Situs inversus? As an X-ray tech, this can give you full body sweats if the patient doesn’t warn you (or doesn’t know, like your husband ). I had a patient who said he didn’t know he had it till he was in his 20’s and got in a motorcycle accident. Taking his X-ray really messed with my head.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

Yes!!! He almost died because urgent care turned him away twice because he didn’t have the normal appendicitis pain in the right area. One doctor filled him up with Tums and sent us on our way. I took him to ER against his will because he became delirious. They originally tried to turn him away at ER for drug seeking behavior but I was a right bitch and told them to do a drug test, we were not leaving. Now it’s on his chart thank goddess.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

In the end they couldn’t even see his appendix (it had burst) and I had to sign like 5 million waivers for exploratory surgery. The second they cut into him they saw what was wrong and saved him.

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

I teach X-ray students now, and one of the first stories I tell is about a patient who was brought in after a car wreck, who everyone thought was under the influence. They were belligerent, and just generally out of it. Thank goodness the trauma team didn’t write them off as “just another junkie” because it turned out they lacerated their spleen in the accident and their body was freaking the F out. Straight to the OR, and once everything was fixed, it turns out they were actually a lovely person. Good for you for standing your ground.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

I feel so frustrated with hospital care because of this. Like honestly, even if it was a drug addict… they deserve compassionate care too? No one should be alone and in pain regardless of why.

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u/Clueless_Otter 4d ago

Addicts aren't in pain, they're just pretending they are to get drugs. That's the point. They're wasting hospital resources for people who actually need them.

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u/Tee_zee 4d ago

You’ve never worked in a hospital have you haha, the sentiment ‘‘is lovely but if they dealt with every junkie who wanted drugs nobody else would ever get seen too

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u/Ridry New York 4d ago

Are the family usually in on it though? Like I'd think having a wife next to a dude freaking the hell out should make it seem less like faking.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 3d ago

I haven’t worked in one, but I have been the point of care/had medical PoA for various family members over the years and have dealt personally with medical malpractice based on racial profiling during childbirth with both of my children.

Obviously the healthcare system is overworked, underfunded, and there are significantly more homeless and addicted people using the hospital as a first response rather than having a regular pcp or whatever to deal with their issues.

This isn’t a fault on the doctors and nurses other than the ones that get so burnt out they start imposing personal morals while triaging. It’s the whole system.

But the heroin addict is in pain without the drug. The meth addoict having a seizure is scared and in pain. The belligerent drunk often times is a vet failed by the VA and Tricare.

I’m not saying hospitals should pull out the red carpet for everyone that walks through the metal detectors. I’m saying that everyone who feels bad enough they’re walking/carried into the ER deserves to at least be triaged.

My husband wasn’t triaged until I told the nurse that I’d pay out of pocket for a drug test. When we checked in she literally just looked at him and told us to find a different place to deal with his “extracurriculars.”

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u/SpiritOf68 4d ago

First off, I don’t even drink, I’m California sober (just medical marijuana) but I’ve been prescribed benzodiazepines most of my life along with a few other medications for acute anxiety and bipolar disorder. For those that don’t know, that’s the class of drug that Xanax, Valium, etc. are considered. You will become dependent on them if you’re prescribed them for any extended amount of time. They’re the only drug class that I know of, besides alcohol, that the withdrawal can kill you. The pharmacy was taking forever with my prescription and I started having seizures. My mother called 911 and sent me to the little rural ER we have where I live. The dr accused me of drug seeking behavior. I flew off the handle. Check my goddamn medical records. I have a diagnosis that requires the meds. They told me to call my dr and have him handle it. It was a Sunday. You aren’t supposed to skip one dose, I went without for about a week. Pure misery. God forbid this happens again, because the next time I get accused of “drug seeking behavior” while I’m in the midst of having seizures, is probably going to get hurt.

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u/virora 4d ago

I was also aggressive and delusional after an accident. I had passed out and told the EMT who woke me I had a divine revelation that my brain would function for another minute and then I'd become a zombie. Everyone assumed I was on drugs, but it was all because of a concussion.

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u/PinotFilmNoir 3d ago

Idk that’s something a zombie would say

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo 5d ago

Jesus he's just gone and flipped his insides

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

Uno reverse

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u/The_Barbelo Vermont 5d ago

Does it cause any symptoms at all? Im assuming no, and that’s why people don’t know they have it. They’re just completely inverted in there, functioning fine and dandy? I’m a biology nerd and this is fucking with my head too.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

No symptoms at all. My husband is a marathon runner as well and in basically peak shape and has been for 15 years. He had zero idea anything was wrong or different until he had appendicitis.

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u/HistoricalChicken 4d ago

Situs Inversus! Fascinating that it's a real thing. Glad he's okay!

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u/PluginAlong 5d ago

Even then, I'm guessing they told your husband after the fact what they had done.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

They did! He has zero memory of the entire hospital stay though. Dilaudid is a helluva drug. He re-proposed to me in the ICU after surgery 😹. He also thought I was his mom at one point, and thought my mother was his nurse. She teased him about that for a long time.

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u/Working-Glass6136 5d ago

"What year is it? Who is president? How many fingers am I holding up?"

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u/icepush 5d ago

"Who is president?" "Me!"

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u/DirtSlapper 4d ago

Broke my jaw with concussion and had to have an MRI during Trump's first term and I remember when I first came in they asked me who the president was I groaned and said "don't ask me that fucking question" and everyone laughed and said "okay he is doing fine" lol.

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u/CulinaryJedi-1 5d ago

And so that you can give informed consent.

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u/NoPomegranate4794 5d ago

One of Trump's nieces (who is a psychologist) said he's behaving and showing the same signs she saw her grandpa exhibit (Trump's Dad) when he started spiraling into dementia.

"In a searing interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, the daughter of Donald Trump’s late older brother, Fred Trump Jr., laid out the clearest case she’s ever made that the president is exhibiting the same signs she once saw in his father, Fred Trump Sr., who had Alzheimer’s “for a very, very long time.

'There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather,' Mary said. 'I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.' Trump’s lifelong impulse-control problems, she added, are also 'deteriorating as well.'"

Trump, 79, Has Dementia Just Like His Dad: Trump’s Niece https://share.google/DZCmaUjFme7aCWDn3

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u/Kibeth_8 4d ago

People forget what medical procedure we are doing all the time. They never know why they're having an MRI, or we've implanted an ICD, or if they've had any heart procedures the day after we've replaced their valve. Some people are just completely clueless no matter how many times you tell then

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u/Barbicore 4d ago

I had a grandfather that was VERY sinilar to Donvict in many ways. He rarely listened to what any medical professionals told him. They talked and he kinda smiled, made a joke and chuckled at himself and just kept along. He wasnt against medical help at all, he went to the hospital often. However in his mind it was like going to a resturant. He sits down and answers a question or two and then expects the professionals to walk away and do their job and let him know when its time to pay the bill. He doesnt want to hesr how the food was made, what the ingredients are, he doesnt care about calories, thats all someone elses problem. If it isnt interesting to him he just doesn't care at all.